2004-09-16-Lesson on Developing Roots

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Lesson

We shall begin to examine the word ‘rooting.’ You are familiar with that word as it pertains to gardening, especially with weeds. There are those with a shallow root system that are easy to remove and discard. Then there are those which are far more tenacious with roots everywhere that are not so easy to get rid of. You think that you got them all, and a week later some of those tenacious ones have grown back, so you need to give careful attention to keeping your garden cultivated.

So it is with habits. There are good habits, which are like plants in your soul-garden you wish to cultivate, and then there are the bad habits you need to keep an eye on as they might over-run and in some cases smother the good ones. The good habits are self-explanatory as they belong to a self-disciplined and self-motivated person. They are instilled under parental supervision when the child is still quite young, and this becomes an ongoing learning process and experience during mortal life, which carries on into eternal life.

The superficial bad habits are easy to overcome through self-discipline, but the tenacious ones like impatience, jealousy, anger, the harboring of resentment, the hanging on to bitterness from the past, suspicion, intolerance and more, are the spirit poisons. Among these are counted addictions of any kind, which poison the body, mind and soul. The latter create an imbalance everywhere, which in turn create the illnesses and diseases humankind is heir to. Much of what curses humankind can be rooted out at the source, which is the human being’s self.

It is a courageous and brave soul, who can look honestly into ‘a looking glass,’ and examine self to see what the origin and cause of the present illness is. Almost all dis-ease can be traced back into the sometimes-distant past to an event which has never been forgiven, and has become a dis-ease in the body/mind, because fear, suspicion and intolerance have been able to spring up to root themselves deep into the human psyche. The DNA is thereby altered and these settle into the genes so this blight is perpetuated in the offspring.

Now here is the work for the human, who finds him or herself not at ease. The greatest tools are forgiveness and love. To learn to forgive unconditionally with unconditional love is approaching the ideal state of being. These go to the root-cause, and free up the soul from these tenacious entanglements. You will see all past grief and hurts disappear into nothingness. The body is then freed up and can breathe easier as a big load is lifted off the mind, and the soul is finally free to sing. Always be ready to forgive and forget. Send unconditional love to its source as often as is needed to free up the imprisoned self.