An older post I just rediscovered and carries a similar theme to a wonderful blog I just read from Blind Wilderness.
Tears have taught me a tremendous amount, and I know how they often come bearing important gifts. There has emerged a half baked spiritual myth that invalidates sadness, claiming it is beneath us if we are walking the path to true enlightenment. But surely one of the most powerful lines in the Bible is one of the simplest: “Jesus wept.” There is nothing unenlightened about crying over the tragedy of human suffering: perhaps what is neurotic is how infrequently we do. There is an old Buddhist story about a monk who stood crying at the grave of his master. A traveller came by and saw his tears. “Why would you cry, I thought you were enlightened!” The monk replied, “because I am sad.”
Our task is not to avoid painful emotion, but rather to transform it at its roots. And that we cannot do if we don’t go through the emotion…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 
This is so beautiful and so true.
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Isn’t it wonderful writing. I love Marianne Williamson. I read something of Lorraine’s today Gary where she mentioned the lines Jesus Wept then this popped up tonight . ❤
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The Buddhist monk in the story might also have replied, “Because I AM enlightened”….for the reason that an enlightened person sees the world whole — the dark night as well as the bright day — and cries because the former overwhelms the latter in the lives of many, and it shouldn’t have to be that way.
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That so TRUE AND SO BEAUTIFUL Bless your soul ❤ ❤ and thanks for following my blog. I Love your imput. xoxo
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Please consider this a hug from one soul to another.
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Thank you so much. ((–)) 🙂
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