Our Weakest Self is Actually a Doorway

Meeting Transcript Extract 15.05.2016
Speaker: Rohan

Generally, our default position is to put our attention on our strengths.

Putting our attention on our strengths does not strengthen us, it strengthens the false. It does not strengthen the “I am.” The truth. The truth doesn’t need strengthening. The truth is the truth. The truth is softness, yin, gentleness, opening. It’s there.

Generally, the habit I see in people is to put their attention on their strengths alone. This is the wrong direction for a warrior, for a seeker. No great warrior in the physical world has ever become a great warrior by focusing on its strengths. Great athletes, great martial artists… they focus on the bit of them that’s the weakest, which can be uncomfortable, and maybe not fun to train, not fun to do. It makes them weaker than their opponent in the moment, which takes humility.

It’s the same for a reality warrior. We find the weak bits in us, and we don’t try and strengthen them. We observe them, we watch, and we allow ourselves to be there. Our greatest weakness is usually a great doorway to the truth; our being an observer of our weakest, without moving, staying still, allowing what arises to arise from that weakness... perceived weakness.

Our weaknesses will be different in each culture, around the world. Therefore, it’s not real anyway. If it’s different in each country, or each family, which one is true? Probably, none. So, logically stepping through that, there’s nothing to fear, if it’s not real.

Avoiding the weaknesses we perceive to have within us, ensures, guarantees, that progress will stop. Progress to what you always were, and already are. Now, right now, in the silence. Being the silence. Silence is being.

So, we need to find the courage and the inclination, the intent, to find our weakest, and reside there! And then, we’re at least looking in the right direction, this is the opposite of what the world generally teaches, or shows, or examples. But, to be a seeker, or a hunter of reality within, the outside world’s ways have to be ignored.