A Wisdom Of Discernment!

The Used Car Lot:
From time to time I will hear discussions debating the value of a belief system, spiritual practice, religion, or however one may label a vehicle of self-discovery.
This is where the seeming enlightened in all their analytical glory will inform the many of how this practice is corrupt or evil.
They may say how untruthful or futile that spiritual practice is, and to some degree there may be some useful information there.
Yet regardless of how much proof they may use to validate their seeming enlightened knowledge, to me they have not proved the wrongfulness of the practice.
They have only proved how some individuals have used these practices to further their own greed and aspirations of power by wooing and manipulating a collective following.
I will also hear some say this Great Teacher is only a fabrication and did not exist and in fact is just a copy of the Teacher they follow.
Ironically the great research they have put into it that drove them to their conclusions is also as credible in disproving the existence of their chosen teacher.
Yet time after time these car salesmen that may have wrote a couple of books or have a certain amount of charisma and over the years have developed a following that will resound their wisdom to affirm its seeming divine relevance.
May I please provide an insight to inspire you too be true to what is always True of your Nature.
You are always Whole and One and to determine something as bad or lacking will not be a smooth start to begin your journey.
Please consider this scenario to provide light to illuminate your path so you can navigate around the pot holes.
A brand new Rolls Royce enters into a used car lot looking for a car to drive for he has a great journey of self-discovery to travel, and he does not see himself as this great precious car.
So he scans this used car lot and sees it is full of a bunch of old banged up rental economy cars that by all appearances reveals a car that has been driven into one too many walls.
No sooner than he steps on the lot he is swarmed by a bunch of salespeople all more than willing to share their great enlightened knowledge of what car is the greatest and smoothest ride.
He first looks at a pinto and several people will frantically say don’t take that car it’s evil, it will surely be the death of you, please listen to my salesperson/enlightened teacher.
He peruses the the lot looking at several models of cars and at each car he is confronted with one salesperson after another either trying to sell the car or warn him off.
He doesn’t take the time to consider that the people that have bombarded him with all this enlightened insight are where he is, they haven’t even left the car lot.
So how can they even know what car can do the journey in the quickest and best way, but lets say he does ask himself this.
So he sees the exit to leave the car lot and walks to it and looks beyond the exit as far as he can see down the road trying to determine the smoothness of the road.
Now having an idea of the car he feels can handle the road, he notices a man standing at the edge of the road waving him on saying, “Wow! Nice car!”
Yet he ignores it because that man could not have been talking to him, he hasn’t got his car yet.
So he turns around and goes to the salesperson that was offering the car he thinks will handle the journey best and says, “I’m interested in your tempo”.
The salesperson exclaims, “that car is bogus, I drove this car and this is the one, sunbird all the way”.
To his amazement all the salespeople have now chosen a new ride to sell and their supporters have also blindly changed their favorites.
Now he’s really confused so he asks someone, “Have you been to the exit of the lot, who is that guy standing outside this car lot yelling nice ride?”
The person says, “I don’t know some weirdo, he says that to just the shoppers and when someone leaves the lot with their car of choice he says nothing.”
He then sees the tempo he has chosen and goes to the car where he is approached by the salesperson and he asks him how it handles the road.
The salesperson says, “well here let me take you for a drive on the test track, that’s where I have developed my great knowledge, it’s part of this car lot.”
So off they go for a test drive and he is not impressed, the car rattled and and on the turns it had no traction and weaved all over the place.
So not wanting to offend the salesperson he thanks them and walks back to the exit to reconcile his uninformed choices.
As he stands at the exit that strange man yells again, “Nice Ride!”
He can’t stand it so he leaves the lot to ask this man what he is up to and does so.
The man understandingly smiles and says to him, Walk with me and I will tell you all about your ‘Nice Car’ and off they embark on his great journey together!
The moral of this scenario is always take the time to notice yourself more and the car of pure surrender is done in the Love of yourself as the greatest car ever built.
Ignore the seeming enlightened that tries to sell you beat-up rentals for they are no more enlightened than you for they have not even left the car lot and begun the journey.
Trust the path of Self-Love and know that as you leave the Lot as the great vehicle you are, you will be supported by those that do have the knowledge you desire and will travel with you every step of the way.
In this those beat up rentals on the car lot will be transformed to the creative celebratory music singing as the diversity of its ever expressive song to let you dance along the way.
All My Love
Rob.