Sue Moon’s Blog

“One cannot do right in one department of life while still occupied in doing wrong in any other department.  Life is an indivisible whole.”                                   Gandhi

When we look at the spiritually unattended areas of our life, we often find in them underlying judgment or fear. We may believe that the body, or relationships, or future planning, or money, or sexuality, or family, or community, or politics is “un-spiritual,” dangerous, ugly, a trap.  This fear puts up walls, isolates our heart from living, divides the world so that part of it is seen not holy.  Our experiences of realization remain compartmentalized and unfulfilled, like bonsai trees, beautiful but stunted.

The truth is that these interior boundaries must be dissolved.  We need to deeply and honestly listen to whatever has been feared or left out that our freedom will be found.  And if we don’t choose to look, that which is unattended will come find us; the lost parts of ourselves will present themselves, knocking ever louder if we don’t listen to their cries.  We end up hearing their voices in divorce or depression, in illness or some strange failure.  If we do listen to and welcome all parts of the self, we will find they enrich our garden as compost, as nourishment for life itself.                         -Kornfield