Acceptance

We hear a great deal about Acceptance these days, as though it were some state that required some effort, some discipline, some method to attain.  What is overlooked is that Acceptance is what Consciousness does all the time.  Moment to moment a parade of sensations, thoughts, and feeling is always going on.  First a marching band, then the guys on the miniature motorcycles, then a gaudy float, then a street theater group, then ....  Everything is accepted by Consciousness in turn.

We humans, however, tend to confuse the judges' clipboards in the reviewing stand with Acceptance.  That acceptance (small "a") is the fruit of judgement.  As each event passes by, a "Yes" or "No" is generated by the judges.  But Consciousness Accepts this judgement the same way it Accepts everything else that passes by.  "Input Accepted. Next."

Where we create pain is in the decision that the judgement has Meaning for us, and in the turning our attention to "I Need to Do Something About This".   If we rather turn our attention to the Acceptance that Consciousness is doing all the time, the problem disappears.