Faith - what it's made of?

Surrender

No blog for two days. This silence is for you to understand that surrender is not a cakewalk, thanks to the ego that we have so loving and with lots of care created. An imaginary creation (maya, illusion or ego as it is called) has come to be believed to be a reality so much so that the Truth is not experienced or seen! What a state of affairs?

If you have ever experienced Faith, it truly ruins you for the ordinary. Living the life of faith is like walking on a tightrope. And it comes when you surrender totally…

And it is an incredible thrill!

In 1800’s an acrobat named Blondin became famous for crossing Niagara Falls by tightrope, many times with no safety net.

One day a crowd gathered at the falls to watch his most dangerous attempt yet. He planned to push a wheelbarrow loaded with a heavy sack of cement across the tightrope. With that extra weight, the slightest miscalculation could tip the wheelbarrow and twist him off the wire plunging him to death 1600 ft below in the raging waters.

Thousands watched breathlessly as he made his way across, placing one foot carefully in front of the other quietly pushing the wheelbarrow across the spray filled chasm oblivious to the roar of the water beneath him.

When he made it to the other side, the crowd let out its collective breath and cheered. What a feat!

After his crossing Blondin challenged a nearby reporter “Did you believe I can do anything on a tightrope?”

“Oh yes, Mr.Blondin” said the reporter, “After what I’ve seen today, I believe it. You can do anything.”

“Do you believe then” said Blondin “that instead of a sack of cement, I could put a man in this wheelbarrow – man who has never been on a tightrope before – and wheel him without a net, safely over to the other end?”

“Oh yes Sir Mr. Blondin”said the reporter “I believe it”.

“Good” said Blondin “Get in”.

The reporter paled and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

It’s one thing to believe something but quite another to have that level of faith in someone/something. 
However, one person that day did have that faith in Blondin. This brave volunteer agreed to get into the wheelbarrow and cross the falls with the master acrobat. As Blondin topped out the bag of cement and placed his passenger in the barrow, men on both sides of the falls quickly placed bets on the outcome.

Then as the crowd cheered, Blondin made his way back across the falls this time pushing a nervous passenger ahead of him, it looked like another easy conquest for the daredevil. But, when they were halfway across the 1600 ft rope, a man with a heavy bet against them crept over and cut one of the wires.

Suddenly, the tightrope pitched crazily back and forth, the force of the whipping motion growing in intensity. As Blondin fought to keep his balance, he knew that they were seconds away from death.

When the rim of the wheelbarrow came off the wire they would both be pitched headlong into the churning waters. Blondin spoke, cutting through the terror of his passenger in the wheelbarrow “Stand up” he commanded “stand up and grab my shoulders”.

The man sat there paralyzed. “Let go and stand up!” “Let go off the wheelbarrow. Do it or die!”

Somehow the man managed to stand up and step out of the wheelbarrow. “Your arms…put them around my neck!” Now your legs…round my waist!” said Blondin. Again the man obeyed Blondin. The empty wheelbarrow fell disappearing into the waters below, the aerialist stood there using all his years of experience and every trained muscle to stay on the wire until the pitching subsided a little.

Then inch by inch he made his way across carrying the man like a child. He deposited the man safe on the ground.

That’s what it means to live the life of faith! You have to have real Faith in the ONE who is carrying you across!

It is fairly easy to say I believe in Reiki and God (especially when things are going your way by applying Reiki), but are you REALLY willing to have Reiki carry you across a tightrope high above the roar of water!

Faith is not a religion or a ritual or a system either.

Faith in Reiki to an extent that Reiki gives only SUCH OF THINGS WHICH ARE BEST FOR YOU. Faith in Reiki even when situations are not as conducive as you wish/ want them to be. Faith that Reiki has the ability to help you to accomplish jobs assigned to you. Faith in Reiki not for what it gives you but faith beyond it’s giving. Faith to see the love of Reiki even in denial!!! 
Faith asks for more than you think! Are you for it?

No? What stops us from having that kind of Faith is Illusion and ignorance. Think about it till I write again,

revathi