A little while ago I was driving along and came across a traffic jam. The best option I felt was to divert, and some cars seemed to be doing so. Well as I have no satnav it is a matter of faith that I turned off and followed the cars that were diverting, assuming that we all wanted to be at the same place, or at least past the jam. One by one cars peeled off, eventually I realised if I kept on I would end up at some other person’s destination, and I would effectively be lost.
As I battled my way looking for a sign to enlighten me about where I was, looking for a familiar name that I could relate to, I realised that we do this kind of diversion often in our spiritual life (needless to say this did not help with my navigation). We follow others assuming that we share a destination, we listen to others, we read and investigate, hoping that this guru or that will give us the guidance we need, hoping that their destination is the same as ours, following blindly in the hope that what worked for them will work for us. Yet just like the traffic jam episode it takes a while to realise that we all have different destinations, we are each on a journey that is individual, and that by following others, by forgetting that we each must forge our own path, we become diverted, lost in the journey of the person in front, and helpless to see the signs that we seek as our own.
So the message is – do not read this and believe it, for these are my thoughts, find your own guidance – hmm – the vagaries of duality eh……
love
chris
Have driven this road so often recently, with traffic jams becoming a part of my life I'd like to lose .... interesting analogy ....
As LavenderRose says, an interesting analogy Chris.
I actually did take my own path as directed by my Guides - certainly not one directed by those around me. Only the future will tell whether I was right to follow this path.