Pre-existing Condition

In the world of health insurance, a "pre-existing condition" is a frightening term. It's a label that can dramatically increase the cost of insurance or even prevent us from obtaining it altogether. This fear often leads people to hide their conditions, carrying them like a hidden stigma.

Yet we all have a pre-existing condition, one that is deeply ingrained in our existence. It’s not a physical ailment or mental disorder. It’s the state of "me-ness" for which the costs are astronomical.

Life is the insurance company whose bylaws dictate, in not-so-fine print, that those with the condition of "me-ness" must pay the price of sorrow.

Pain, suffering, and eventual death are the unavoidable fees of me-ness. Further taxing our dwindling reserves is that every experience of "self" further reinforces the condition.

Yet escape is eminently possible, without requiring renunciation of the self. Simply a willingness to look at all that we’ve made in the name of me. As we read in A Course in Miracles:

A miracle is a correction. It does not create, nor really change at all. It merely looks on [your belief in selfhood], and reminds the mind that what it sees is false.

Extending Eastern insight, "All beingness is without self." With this shift in awareness comes a release from all sadness. What the course refers to as a "tremendous release." A most inclusive, unconditional policy of peace. All pre-existing conditions welcome.

Join me in Thursday’s class where we’ll discuss practices to experience this blissful state. I look forward to seeing you then.