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- Herausgeber: Crystal Gate Publishing
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Serie: The Golden Path
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
I have started the practice of acceptance more as a necessity than a spiritual pursuit. I was in a situation where I really needed to change my life and the things around me, and I understood that only the practice of acceptance can get me out of my situation. As days and months passed by, I noted different passages from what I understood and after 2 years I compiled out of them the book that you are presently reading. There is not much to say about acceptance, so the book is not lengthy but rather compressed as information, but I made sure that I have explained every detail of the process I underwent. As a bonus, or better said as a surprise that happened in my practice of acceptance, I discovered that by practicing it, the heart opens so that you can see the world in its pure and pristine quality. Therefore, I also adapted the title to include it, naming it instead of "The Path Of Acceptance" to "The Heart of Acceptance". There is a lot written in this book about the open heart of acceptance, and I even dedicated a full chapter to it. I hope you will enjoy my book and gain the courage and attitude to practice it yourself. Namaste.
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Preface
I have started the practice of acceptance more as a necessity than a spiritual pursuit. I was in a situation where I really needed to change my life and the things around myself, and I understood that only the practice of acceptance can get me out of my situation. As days and months passed by, I noted different passages from what I understood and after 2 years I compiled out of them the book that you are presently reading.
There is not much to say about acceptance, so the book is not lengthy but rather compressed as information, but I made sure that I have explained every detail of the process I underwent.
As a bonus, or better said as a surprise that happened in my practice of acceptance, I discovered that by practicing it, the heart opens, so you can see the world in its pure and pristine quality. Therefore, I also adapted the title to include it, naming it instead of "The Path Of Acceptance" to "The Heart of Acceptance". There is a lot written in this book about the open heart of acceptance, and I even dedicated a full chapter for it.
I hope you will enjoy my book and you will gain the necessary courage and attitude to practice it yourself. Namaste.
Chapter 1
Acceptance in spiritual terms
We will begin by saying that acceptance, in spiritual terms, has basically nothing to do with the mundane term of acceptance. The usual term is seen as a hard to accomplish and sometimes even as an impossible thing to do, given the difficult circumstances of our lives. It is hard to accept or forgive a person that did you wrong, so many times, it is hard to accept a situation in which you've been hurt so badly, it is generally hard to be or even exist in non-acceptance of the so many things happening externally around you. In spiritual terms, acceptance is merely a tool to help us go through all our difficult situations that are present in our lives. It is a practice in itself that lets us see the truth of what we are and what we are doing, that makes us realize our situation clearly, our intentions and our purpose with much clarity and awareness. It is only after we realize that we can apply acceptance in our lives that we can start to see, clearly, how we have become and what our present moment holds.
The result of applying acceptance in our lives is translated basically by having clear awareness, or as some might say mindfulness-awareness. We start to see life as it is, clearly, as we become aware of our present situation, we are starting to pay attention to what is around us, we're here and now and our feelings, including our thoughts and emotions, are starting to show themselves to us, in a gradual fashion. All these thoughts and emotions that are revealed to us through the practice of acceptance basically exist because of countless causes and effects through which we arrived now, in the present moment. In other words, whatever we experience as our present moment is our own karma, our own deeds that brought us here. Realizing this, will make us suddenly become more mindful and see the virtue of acceptance for what it really is, no more than a spiritual tool that helps us to be more aware or pay attention in the present moment.
The practice of accepting the present moment never ends. We can practice it for our whole life, as our practice of choice. It will bring us many benefits as it will clean our perception in each and every situation, it will help us be aware of our life more and more, it will make us understand with more ease the situations around us and it will also change the way we act toward our world, bringing more kindness, joy, compassion while at the same time fostering tolerance and forgiveness towards all the others.
Overcoming your current situation, can be easily done by first accepting your present situation, as it is. This is the first step toward your own liberation, toward your own freedom. Non-acceptance of the current situation is definitely the opposite and it can be translated into the resistance toward the very present moment. By accepting with wisdom the situation that we're presently into, mindfulness will start to arise effortlessly. Equanimity, or the calmness of the mind, the relaxed attention through which you perceive the world, makes way to mindfulness to occur spontaneously in your own mind. It is only after you have began and sustained for weeks and even months your practicing of acceptance (of the present moment) that your life will start to clear up of unwanted situations. You may now rest in the present moment and you are now fully aware of your present situation, which is different in each and every day, but also holding the main route of your own life. This is the best way in which you can start to change your current situation, by practicing acceptance, by first realizing how you are and what your current situation is.
You have to be assertive in your practice, because when you lose your practice and stop practicing acceptance as your main goal in your day, your mindfulness will switch back gradually to the regular Ego-mind, making you enter with ease in each and every drama created by other people or even by your own Ego, which makes you go back again in the beginning, where you didn't know anything about acceptance.
So, we can see that acceptance and mindfulness/awareness walk hand in hand. They are well-known companions, on either your spiritual path, or on your way through which you want to succeed in your life. Acceptance gives rise to mindfulness to occur in our lives, naturally, and mindfulness creates a space where further acceptance and tolerance can develop.
Acceptance is much interrelated with other virtues as well. To be successful in practicing acceptance, you must master the virtue of patience, which is also closely related to that of humbleness. Humbleness does not mean humiliating yourself in front of others, as most of us think, although at the level of the monastic practice this may be true, but instead knowing your worth, but being kind and not boasting with your values, skills, and good deeds. Humbleness is the opposite of pride, and when one is humble, he can be better at practicing patience. When one is humble, his pride, his Ego-mind is not active and he thinks out of the low vantage point that humbleness gives him, allowing for patience to manifest effortlessly, so he can cope better with life’s challenges. In being patient, we can easily accept the present situation, with awareness and with a mindful attitude. Tolerance with people and situations that develop around us can be easily done when we're being patient. And tolerance is a very close virtue to that of acceptance, where we fully embrace in our hearts the present moment and whatever it gives us. By fostering tolerance and patience, we start to develop a longer attention span, and we can use our wisdom to accept gracefully whatever situation that develops around us, learning from each of these situations. We can say that patience trains us more into practicing tolerance, and tolerance brings us into the heart of acceptance.
So we can see that acceptance or tolerance as it is generally named in our society is a spiritual tool through which we can tackle our present situation, to better understand it, so we can start to apply changes around ourselves, be it we want to change a relationship, move out of our own place, manifest things in our life, or any other change that you would like to bring around yourself.
In the next chapter we will look at understanding the virtue of acceptance, seeing its many aspects and facets that it brings to our life.
Chapter 2
Understanding the virtue of acceptance
Understanding the virtue of acceptance, which might be also generally translated as tolerance, as our society sees us at the mundane level, is very important to our spiritual practice. Acceptance is only a daily practice, along with that of mindfulness, meditation, yoga, compassion, kindness, metta (loving-kindness) or any other else that you choose. Acceptance can be very easy to understand: either you do accept your present situation in which you are right now or not. It is up to you. Acceptance is done fully, simply, with your mind and with your heart. Along with humbleness, acceptance is a way overlooked aspect of our society, because it looks like “nothing” or like a “side thing” in the eyes of the people, when in fact it is a great way to understand your world and to practice on your spiritual path. Acceptance is not very easy to practice in the beginning as most of the time people are “buried” in hundreds of wicked situations and tied with unseen ropes in many situations, and also because you need to have a lot of strength to accept and to forgive. But by practicing acceptance day by day, you will gradually gain more power to forgive and be tolerant in your soul and you will gain insights about how your own freedom relates to the world we live in. After a while, the more you have practiced acceptance, the more you will clean up your life and the more you will understand the many aspects and facets of your life.
