Your body, your mind, your personality - that's all just part of nature, it's all just lawful stuff happening. Why are you getting uptight about it? Let it be harmonious with its lawful manifestation, and don't struggle against it so hard. Live your life more lightly, more impersonally; don't get so caught, so trapped in your melodrama. We all do love our own melodramas. We each have one. Everybody thinks they're somebody doing something, or somebody thinking something, or somebody wanting something: "I've gotta have sex tonight or I'll die." "I'm so lonely!" "I can't meditate." "I'm so high!" We all get so involved in our own melodramas, so busy thinking we're the actors, so busy thinking we're doing it all - and it's really just this lawful stuff running off. How funny!
But in order to see that, in order to begin to appreciate the lawfulness of the unfolding, we need to develop a little perspective. It can be a nice meditation to take a seed, put it in a bit of earth. Put it on a kitchen windowsill, and watch it grow into a plant, into a flower. Just observe it everyday. Use that as your daily meditation exercise; see the way the whole process unfolds.
Then you turn the lens around. Study yourself in the same way you studied the seed growing. Observe your own life, your own actions, with that same sense of detachment and curiosity, until you can see the laws of nature working around you. You'll see what leads to anger, what leads to love, what leads to desire. Just watch it all - don't argue with it, don't judge it, just watch it. And as you begin to develop that perspective, you'll find that your acts gradually come less and less out of attachment and more and more out of the simple, lawful flow of things.
- Ram Dass, Paths to God, Living the Bhagavad Gita
