Revelation: Being Blessed

Krista Tippett's program,"Speaking of Faith,” was and is my primary electronic media source for discovering that which helps me gain insight into my life and how I have chosen to experience it. Some of the topics seem remarkably "unspiritual," upon reading the program titles. Remarkable, too, it is that it is in these most unlikely topics that I find the most self-revelation. "Speaking of Faith," has helped me gain insight about our individual and collective lives. Perhaps it can help you.
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Many of us spend much far too much time embracing, struggling with and trying to conform with what is outside of us. I encourage you to spend more time embracing, struggling with and discovering what is inside of you--your true self. You will be pleasantly surprised at what you find.

I have rediscovered (yet again) the fact that I have only just begun to live what I intellectually have known to be true and have advised others; Live in the moment, not the past and not the future. It is only in the now, with your true and full presence can you recognize your blessings when they come to you. I am now living in a remarkable moment of revelation.
I have always known that I must overcome and banish from my life various painful experiences, afflictions, bad habits and wrong attitudes that have failed to serve me well. I have chanted and prayed with true focus and concentration on releasing these things that are obstacles to my intellectual, mental, physical and spiritual growth. I have chanted and prayed and now I am living the actual proof of the power of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, the center of my Nicihiren Buddhist faith in my current life experience.

It’s a kind of funny yet profound experience. The lessons often come disguised as adversity or suffering--or at least what we are in the habit of calling these experiences. I choose to regard them as learning moments. Moments when we must call upon our deepest, most honest self and recognize that indeed, the current situation is providing the perfect environment for learning or attaining that for which we have prayed. Getting beyond the pain, the wrong thinking to which we are habituated will lead us directly to the blessing we seek.

I say to myself; It is not easy but I will not be defeated.

Peace,

Yvonne