The ''CHRISTMAS'' Story

MANGER and the ''TRUE'' MEANING Of -
''NO Room at the INN.''

---We have before us a very well known story, the Christmas Story. We all know it as it is written. Mary on the donkey led by Joseph, ready to give birth to Jesus. They go to the Inn, but are turned away as there is ''No Room.'' The Birth takes place in a ''Manger.''
---We want to look at this from a Spiritual Perspective. We can see it this way-The Manger can be our Mind and Heart when a starkness prevales. The Christ or the Truth, can not be born in a place that is ''filled'', such as was the Inn.
---We must have our Minds and Hearts to be 'like' the Manger, Empty and Ready.Then and only then can the Truth be Born. If our Minds and Hearts have 'No Room'',then it will not Happen there, as at the Inn.
---Our Minds and Hearts are ''filled'' with things of the Ego- desires, competition, comparisons to others [which gives everything a Me vs.Them feel.] We must be 'free' of all that. We must be Not filled or Empty to have Room-and then the Truth will come into Being. It will take shape within and work with you [as you are] and set ''you'' Right.
---Depending on where you are at, there you will start. It [Life] begins to make
sense. You 'Understand.' This is The Awakening. This is ''To Be Born Again.''
---If One is not ready it will not occur. As we said on another occasion that one needs an 'ego' to give one up. If One is just doing ''this'' as to avoid ''himself'' he has missed the point. One has the trials one has, for a reason. They are there as a 'learning.' What goes around indeed comes around, and we have set into motion things that must be dealt with. This is the law of Karma.
---A mindset of Eros will only lead back to Itself. It is, once again, the Ego. I am speaking of Eros in its broadest form. We are looking for the Agape Mind. That Mind is ''OTHER'' oriented.
---The Quiet Mind, Loves without prejudice. The Mind that isn't ''littered'' with things of subjective thought. It functions best as a quiet tool that just ''observes'' Life. The OBJECTIVE MIND with ESOTERIC THOUGHT. It then sees ''Rightly.'' It then knows only Love.
(This Was Written in Aug., 2004)