Won't you join me for a cup of tea?
Welcome, Friend,
A Buddhist monk asked a student, “If you are carrying a cup of tea and someone bumps into you, and you spill the tea, why did you spill the tea?”
The student replied, “I spilled the tea because the guy bumped into me. It was his fault that I spilled the tea.”
The monk replied, “No. Listen to me carefully: You spilled the tea because that’s what you were carrying in your cup.”
The student thought about it and admitted that he didn’t understand.
The monk lovingly explained:
"When life bumps up against you, whatever you are carrying inside is going to spill out. If you are carrying anger, vengeance, fear, jealousy, then that’s what’s going to spill out.
But, if you are carrying love, compassion, peace: that will spill out.
When life bumps up against you, what will spill out of your cup?
Story by Phil Milgrim, from The Centered Place newsletter.
I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately. Have you given it any thought? When something or someone bumps up against you, what spills out?
Often our reactions to situations are automatic. We don't stop and think. Even worse than that, we don't stop and feel. We might not take even a moment to notice what we're thinking or feeling until hours or days later, or not at all.
If you allow your reactions to be automatic, whatever you're still holding onto will spill out when something pushes your buttons or "bumps" into you.
When that happens, that's when we hurt people, damage relationships, and lower our vibrational frequency.
To leave behind the 3-D programming, we have to be conscious of all that's still lying around inside, unresolved, and ready to spill out. We are responsible for everything we think, say, and do.
Your Divine Self is who you truly are. Your Divine Self is full of Love and Compassion, and is inviting you to clean house. It's time to disconnect the buttons. It's time to free yourself from all the old emotional and mental patterns that can't go with you into higher Consciousness.
Sounds like a lot of work? Well, you don't do it all at once. It's a step-by-step process.
Sometimes it helps to have a neutral person to assist you in this process, someone who is already on the path and is doing the work.
Spiritual Empowerment Coaching™ is designed to help you clear internal patterns that no longer bring you satisfaction or success in your life, patterns you are choosing to eliminate permanently.
It may assist you in taking back your personal power over your own mind, your own feelings, and life's situations and challenges.
This holiday season, give yourself a gift that will last forever.
