And soul it is. Amen. You may think you are making all the decisions, taking all the actions, but what is this “you”? The body is the vehicle, the soul is the driver. Thoughts get quite stale and misconstrued when the vehicle’s windows are left closed for too long. Open the windows, why don’t you. Access fresh insights, for the soul is not confined to the car. Fuel yourself, your human self, by tapping into unconditioned choices. Drivers, start your engines … fresh starts moment by moment, ready to respond to what is here and now, based not on the past, but what is before you. Opportunities! A wide, open road. And soul it is.
You are so very loved.
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Suzanne, how can we be happy when our only son is struggling with issues and is not willing to get help but yet his decisions are affecting us terribly? I really want to believe there is a reason for this but I am tired am 60 years old and have had enough of my fair share of trouble and don’t want to go through this with my son! How and where do I turn for guidance?
Hello Nouhad. You turn inward, to the intelligence from which we all arise. Ask for assistance in finding the peace from knowing we are more than our stories. This is how it begins …
It’s evident that Sanaya is along for / with the Suzanne – Ty Annual Roadtrip!
Hi Suzanne. I am somewhat unsure what is meant by “unconditioned choices”. Do not our choices need to be governed (and thereby, in a way, constrained and ‘conditioned’) by necessities relating to what we want to achieve, i.e. if one wants Z then X and Y must be done? But, it seems this is a ‘proper’ conditioning since our choices need to be appropriate if we are to achieve our aims.
At the same time, there are also constraints (on our choices) arising from entrenched attitudes and structures in the external world, such as racial discrimination. Although racial discrimination is ‘illegitimate’ because objectively unjust, racism still exists and inevitably has negative effects, which include limiting the choices of colored people. Under such circumstances, it seems that those affected are simply not free to make choices from an unconditioned standpoint. The same line of thought applies analogously to other areas, e.g. poverty that arises from entrenched, class-based structural inequity in a society (perhaps in concert with political corruption). How is someone living in those conditions going to be able to make unconditioned (economic) choices … unless, of course, they’re free from the conditioning influence because they’re white, wealthy, etc?
So, what would be involved in making “unconditioned choices” given the existence and limiting effect of these kinds of circumstances? Many thanks for your response!
Hi Pamela, if you think of each of us as an eddy in one stream of flow, the conditioned choices arise from within the eddy … stale, habitual, based on what just goes round and round. Unconditioned choices for each eddy are those that come from extending awareness beyond one’s own conditioned patterns and tapping into the freshness of the entirety of the Flow. Blessings.