Trusting the flow of life
-By Kyle Hoobin

If we look closely, we see that trust in the traditional sense of the word means confident expectation. Yet when authentic trust is practiced, it's really just an allowing and accepting of all moments - 'past', present, and 'future' to be as they are.

We are born into a world of apparent separate forms everywhere, and naturally we have come to believe that we are separate from the rest of existence and must fend for ourselves. To move from a place of trusting the bodily senses to a place of trusting the flow or suchness of life does not happen very easily. Most people have spent their whole lives trying to get what's best for them and so changing that course of thinking would run counter to everything they have been taught and are familiar with. It's an enormous step to begin authentically trusting life to take care. Unfortunately, the result of not trusting life can only give you more reasons not to trust it. Why is this? You are not separate from life, and life is essentially your mirror. Life can only reflect what is being put out by your current state of consciousness. Life can only reflect the reasons for why you decided to not trust life in the first place - it can be a vicious cycle. Life will never give you a reflection that is more or less than equal and in accordance with your inner state. The one thing that is always unavoidable, is meeting the same energy you put out.

Trust is cultivated through honesty because the only real reason to trust life instead of our control program (ego) is because our control program has not been living up to it's promises. When we are being honest with our current situation, then we are willing to see more clearly how empty the mind's promises really are - that it has not really been taking care of us. Only after this dance with honesty do we move deeper into trusting life to take care.

It helps to notice that trusting life does not mean trusting something else besides the thinking mind, it just means simply and only not placing trust in the mind. If you make no moves, if you are passive, then the mirror can only reflect your stillness - your inner peace. When trust is continually and authentically applied to life, then trust becomes unnecessary since there would be nobody left who would need to.

Trust is simply another word for grace. So why not be the grace in every space that takes place? . . . How do we 'be' that grace? By recognizing that who we really are is already grace itself - always. Grace is always the case. Living grace means resting as the awareness that is aware of life unfolding.