LUKE: Look, I'm sure its delicious. I just don't understand why we can't see Yoda now!
YODA: Patience! For the Jedi it is time to eat as well! Hmm! Good food! Eat! Eat! Hot! Ha ha ha!!
Luke dishes out a serving of Yoda's stew onto his plate with rancid disgust.
YODA: Good food, huh! Good! Hmm!
LUKE: How far away is Yoda? Will it take us long to get there?
YODA: Not far. Yoda not far. Ha ha! Patience! Soon you will be with him.
YODA: Why must you become Jedi, hmm?
LUKE: Mostly because of my father I guess.
YODA: Father, powerful Jedi was he. Ha ha! Powerful Jedi!
LUKE: (impatient) Oh come on. How could you know my father. You don't even know who I am!
YODA: (solemn) I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
BEN KENOBI : (Voice Over) He will learn patience.
YODA: Much anger in him. Like his father.
BEN KENOBI : (Voice Over) Was I any different when you taught me?
YODA: No! He is not ready.
LUKE: (surprised) Yoda?! (soft beat) I am ready! Ben, I can be a Jedi. Ben, tell him .....
YODA: (interrupting) Ready are you?! What you know ready? For 800 years have I trained Jedi! My own council will I keep on who is to be trained! The Jedi must have the deepest commitment. The most serious mind. This one, a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was! On what he was doing! You are reckless!
BEN KENOBI: (Voice Over) So was I if you remember.
YODA: He is too old. Yes, too old to begin the training!
LUKE: But I've learned so much.
YODA: Will he finish what he begins?
LUKE: I won't fail you. I'm not afraid!
YODA: You will be. You will be!
The Power of NOW! It was what master Yoda was trying to instill in his newest pupil, Luke Skywalker from the start of his training to become a Jedi. And yet so many of us choose to reject this space of being perfectly present in every moment. It can feel overwhelming and uncomfortable to face what currently IS! It's akin to sitting in the fire of our own compassionate truth and allowing the heat to burn off the ashes of everything that is not part of our authentic selves. Especially when this process is most effective when we truly allow ourselves to FEEL that burn; deep down to our own soulful core. Yet anything worth doing, is worth doing with us being ALL IN! Ask Yoda if you don't believe me. Tell you he will the truth! LOL And you wonder why Yoda told Luke he may become fearful. He he!!
Luke was challenged to find acceptance and gratitude with the life he was living on the barren planet of Tatooine. And so his mind was never focused on the LOVE and joy he had been given by his Aunt and Uncle before they were murdered. And he carried that trauma with him and eventually left his Jedi training with Yoda prematurely to rescue his friends who were captured by the evil Galactic Empire. What we do not repair, we are destined to REPEAT!! Re-read that last sentence again. Please! Luke found that out the hard way. Hopefully, you won't have to...... ;0)
That's why it is so utterly important for us to use the healing and transformative power of ACCEPTANCE as a way to live in pure ALLOWANCE!! For it is only here that we spend our days living in a Divine Dance with Spirit. And where we can sip from the well of TRUST that defines the Universe itself. And we come into the Universal understanding that No Thing happens To Us; but rather THROUGH us and FOR our Highest Good!!
Later during Luke's training, Yoda teaches him the power of BELIEF! Luke is trying to raise his downed X-Wing fighter out from the swamp and can't quite muster the inner belief of his own Super Powers.
LUKE: We'll never get it out now.
YODA: (disappointed in Luke) So certain are you. Always with you what cannot be done. Hear you nothing of I say?
LUKE: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This...this is totally different!
YODA: No! No different! Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.
LUKE: Alright, I'll give it a try.
YODA: No! Try not! Do! Or do not. There is no try!
Luke attempts to use the Force to lift his spaceship from its watery grave. But to no avail.
LUKE: (breathing heavy) I can't. It's too big.
YODA: Size maters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size do you. Hmmm. And where you should not!
LUKE: You want the impossible.
Despite his diminutive size, Yoda summons the Force to lift the ship up and out of the swamp to dry land! Luke is in a complete state of astonishment.
LUKE: I...I don't believe it!
YODA: That....is why you fail!
Here is a SUPERHERO'S TAKEAWAY. Everything in life is a PROCESS! Including acceptance of our life exactly the way it is! And when we do experience pain, discord, angst, anxiety, or suffering in any form from an experience that has manifested into our experience, IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for ourSELVES and others to allow these emotions time to resonate within us. For repressed emotions are unactualized spiritual lessons. Just don't allow yourself to permanently move into these houses of perpetual pain and suffering. Instead, compassionately give yourself the gift to allow the emotion to flow through you. Just long enough for the lesson it was meant to bring forth into your life to be born. And then LET IT GO!!!
Yoda taught Luke that fear leads to anger, and anger to hate. In the very same manner, Belief leads to Faith, Faith leads to Knowingness, Knowingness leads to Gratitude, and Gratitude leads to Bliss! BUT IT ALL STARTS WITH ACCEPTANCE OF THAT WHICH CURRENTLY IS! Learning the power that comes from living in the NOW. That is the path towards living life in "the flow." It is the way of the Force. And the Force is alive and well; an all empowering SOURCE of all the Infinite Intelligence of the Universe.
As Yoda would say, "Use the Force always. For a powerful ally it is. Powerful ally indeed. Yes! Yes!" And so it is!
BE SUPER HEROIC!
Nerdmaste,
Jeffrey Louis Martinez
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