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Extract
from the
P'taah
Newsletter March 2009 in
Question and Answer format.
Q:
Some people I've talked with
do not understand, and I am
going to include myself in
this, how they create their
misfortunes. Not knowing how
they created it has created
more fears about what they
could unintentionally create.
In other words, how did
somebody create something that
she wasn't focusing on, like
for instance, a car accident?
She wasn't focusing on this or
putting her energy into this.
P'taah: You know,
beloved, all of this comes
back to the idea that to have
the accident was a bad thing.
You see? If you come from the
premise that everything is
perfect, then no matter what
it is or how you create it or
from where you create it,
always it is an opportunity to
come to know more. And you
could say that the pointer is
in, 'What is the reaction?'
Q: That's the pointer?
P'taah: Indeed. An
'accident'. There is no such
thing as an 'accident'. So you
have created a circumstance
and that circumstance creates
a different paradigm from the
one that existed before you
had this incident.
Q: Right.
P'taah: And in this new
paradigm called 'after the
accident', what then is the
reaction? How are you in this
situation? What does it force
you to do? What is it that you
are unable to do? And what is
the gift?
In other words, everything is
a gift, one way or another. So
find the gift. Is it that you
have the opportunity to look
at a belief structure? Is it
that you have created an
opportunity to stop and to be
still, to look inside instead
of always outside? Is it a
situation where you are
required to rely on somebody
else to serve you rather than
for you to always do the
serving? You understand? And
it does not have to be
something dire. It does not
have to be so serious.
Q: Okay. So, even a
little annoyance -- for
instance, I got a spoon stuck
in my garbage disposal the
other day -- even something
like that, if I can look at it
and I can see that I created
it for a purpose and then sit
down and figure out what is it
that I am trying to show
myself.
P'taah: What is the
gift? What does this story
lead me to emotionally? What
does it lead me to, in a way,
that gives me a broader
understanding of myself.
Q: Okay, and so that's
how you honor the hidden and
buried away beliefs, by asking
those questions.
P'taah: Absolutely, to
look at the reaction to
whatever the situation is. And
by the emotional reactions, or
by even the circumstance that
we have beforetime stated, you
can come to see something
about yourself that perhaps
you were not previously aware
of.
You see, even to look at
something like this, you
cannot ever know in your human
state all of the answers. And
it is necessary also for you,
all of you, to learn to allow
the mystery. Only to be
centered in how you are being,
never mind the outside story.
We give you an example,
beloved. Let us take the
situation of spoon in garbage
disposal machinery.
Q: Yes.
P'taah: Let us say that
before this occurred you were
to rush from your house to do
some business and because of
this situation you were not
able to rush away.
Now, let us step well back
from the situation and look at
these possibilities. One is to
get into your vehicle and to
rush off to your business
appointment and in doing so,
you would have been involved
in some kind of, let us say,
situation in the traffic that
would not at all have been
pleasant for you. And because
you stayed to deal with the
situation in your kitchen you
created a smooth passage for
that appointment that you went
to a little later than you had
planned and so everything is
perfect. You understand?
Q: Yes, I do.
P'taah: So you can
never, any of you, see around
all of the corners to know
what is occurring in the
bigger picture. You can only
have the knowing that
everything that occurs is for
your benefit, if you can allow
it, if you can remind yourself
that everything is perfect,
always.
Everything exists so that you
may come to know the miracle
that you are, so that you may
come to know your
connectedness with the
All-That-Is and that you are
indeed the All-That-Is playing
this game called life. There
is nothing that could be
anything but perfect in the
broader truth of it.
Q: Right, thank you,
P'taah.
P'taah: And all of you
are very busy trying to make
sense of something that will
never make sense, in a way.
Q: Is that going back to
the mystery?
P'taah: Indeed!
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