Everyone looks for the sweet cake, the little
bite of some advantage. We are certain it will
make us happy. It's ever so tempting to think
along these lines. To think THIS is what to do
and THIS is the way. And yet, all we have done
is set up a division, a division of sweet cakes
and not sweet cakes.
When we think this way and live this way
we live on the slide of UP and DOWN. It's
forever slippery. And very common. It's the
material way. And it's the way of continued
suffering.
If Siddhartha Gautama lived this way, he would
have never left the castle. He had the sweet cake
of the material way. A kingdom, a young wife,
all the pleasures of the body and a son.
If Jesus lived this way, he would have never
relinquished his will to God. His followers
wanted him to be King of the land, not a
crucified Christ.
Going for the sweet cake advantage keeps
us in unrest and ill at ease. We say NOT this,
NOT that and pick and choose looking
for the sweet cake we think will make us
happy.
Until we see this insight we need to practice
renunciation. And we do it through the
doors of participation, whether sweet or not.
In the middle of right where we are
we study our bias and prejudice and continue
to participate despite them. This continuation
is letting go of the material way.
It requires spiritual willingness of relinquishment.
We sit down in mindful participation.
To live for the sweet cake is to be short sighted
and body centered.
We are in eternity. The sweet cake is passing.When
we see that, it changes how we live.
