When Your Heart Is Unobstructed

Anthony De Mello speaks about the effortless effort in transformational change. It is like a sailboat when a mighty wind catches its sails. It glides along so effortlessly that the sailor has nothing to do but steer it in the direction he or she wants to go. No effort; the sailor doesn’t push the boat.  That’s how transformational change happens through simple awareness, through understanding.

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Let's continue with change through awareness, Effortlessness in change. It's all of a nice image for that. The sailboat, You have a sailboat with a mighty wind in its sails and it glides along so effortlessly. And the boatman, What does he have to do? Nothing but steer. He makes no effort. He doesn't push the boat. That's something of an image of what happens when change comes about through awareness, Through understanding. If the eye is unobstructed, The result is sight. If the ear is unobstructed, The result is hearing. If the nose is unobstructed, The result is a sense of smell. If the mouth is unobstructed, The result is a sense of taste. If the mind is unobstructed, The result is wisdom. Drop those barriers that you have erected through your concepts and conditionings. Wisdom is not something acquired. Wisdom is not experience. Wisdom comes from not being influenced by experience. Wisdom is not applying yesterday's solution to today's problem. Wisdom is to be sensitive to this situation, To this person, Uninfluenced by any carryover from the past, No residue from the experience of the past. Quite unlike what most people are accustomed to thinking, I would add another sentence to the ones I've read. When the heart is unobstructed, The result is love.

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