I ran across this today and it simply captured everything that I have tried to say about why I decided to grow dreadlocks...I think it is beautiful and perhaps it will offer peace to anyone struggling within their journey.
If you want to learn acceptance, then the next time you are caught out in the rain without a raincoat or umbrella, rather than run for shelter, allow yourself to get wet. You will be very aware of the resistance to getting wet, that instinctual urge to run for shelter, the sense of 'me'that wants to protect itself. T...his is what must be surrendered in order to stay out in the rain. When this resistance is surrendered, and you allow yourself to fully feel the experience of being soaked, then there is a sense of freedom from yourself that carries with it a sense of deep unfathomable peace. It has nothing to do with liking the rain or not liking the rain. Rather, it is letting go of the one that likes or doesn't like, the one that separates itself from the rain in the first place. And when you do that you are simply left with what is. There is no you and what is, there is simply what is. And the experience of what is is peace, is delight. It is completely open and vulnerable and complete in itself. If you apply this experience of being in the rain to any situation, any emotion, then there will be incredible freedom. It has nothing to do with the particular experience, rather it is about letting go of the one that separates itself from experience, letting go of the one that tries to control the experience. Because it is that separation that creates all conflict. ~Kip Mazuy
updated by @panterra-caraway: 02/14/15 08:39:11AM
