Dear Ones,

In light of the recent political events in the United States, I feel called to share a portion of a teaching from Master Djwhal Kuhl, going back to April of 2011.

It addresses the concepts of love, acceptance and the difference between acceptance and resignation.

I found it particularly fit to the evolutionary times we are now experiencing.

And who knows what soon-to-knock-at-our-door 2025 will bring in its sack?

Another reason to polish our ‘acceptance skill’ as we near the end of another 365-day cycle.

Love & much Light

Topic: Love, acceptance and resignation

Time: Nov 7 @ 3:30 PM Eastern Time

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88065767304

Meeting ID: 880 6576 7304

“How would you rate the force of love operating in your life these days? I know that probably sounds like a loaded question, but just consider it for a moment. Clearly, love should help you move through your day, should it not? Love should support your center (or your core) as you take your place in a world that seems to lack any real equanimity. Further, love should bring you more self-acceptance. It should also offer a great capacity to accept all the things in the world you cannot change. As you engage in true acceptance, you will undoubtedly become softer – both toward yourself and toward others.

There is a definite difference between “acceptance” and “resignation” and since many folks confuse these two, an explanation is in order. Acceptance is a highly engaged state of mind and heart – which is just the opposite condition of resignation. Many well-intentioned spiritual aspirants confuse these two states of mind. They do so even though the energetic imprints of the two emotional conditions are radically divergent. Resignation is a state of reluctantly conforming to a situation while really wishing things could be another way. Acceptance, on the other hand, is simply a natural and open response to the things that happen, or to things as they are.

The first step to mastering acceptance turns out to be learning how to cultivate neutrality, or what my teachers called “impartiality.” One of the commonly held misperceptions about neutrality is that when one is neutral one simply doesn’t care about anything. That sounds a lot like resignation and not so much like acceptance, but it is the way many people think. If one truly doesn’t care about anything, then neither the events of the world, nor the events in the lives of other people seem to have any meaning, nor do they seem to require any attention. This is a bit on the nihilistic side, isn’t it? It might also be narcissistic, but it is certainly nihilistic. I want to emphasize that nihilism is not neutrality. I don’t care how someone tries to sell it. The neutrality or impartiality that I’m talking about here is a refined spiritual state of mind.

This mental state is learned over time with a lot of practice. It is a cultivated mental state in which a person cares very deeply about the world and all its beings. One does not deny this caring to any being on Earth. In fact, most people who learn to surround themselves with this refined mental state are amazed at how much their caring quotient deepens from prior states. The capacity to care is naturally deepened in a spiritually neutral state. The difference from prior states of caring lies completely in the absence of the ego-charge that may have been previously interpreted as caring. You might need to think about that a little bit.”

Master Djwhal Kuhl

April 2011