Being Masterfully Human

By Aluna Joy Yaxk’n

Life is not about being a master in a human body, but being a human masterfully!

Who said if you lived consciously nothing bad or challenging would ever happen to you? Who told you that you would never get sick, have a lover leave you, have a loved one die, have a car accident, or make a bad choice? Who ever said walking the spiritual path would be easy?

When a friend asks how you are, do you hide the fact you might feel miserable? Do you respond by saying “I’m great, it’s all perfect!” Why hide the truth and hide ourselves from each other? Why be afraid of being judged for being human, for having a down day? How often have you felt like eating a pint of ice cream and hid the carton? Why not allow each other to be human with all our amazing qualities and frailties? Where is the non-judgment, the compassion, and why is having human vulnerabilities mean you’re not on a spiritual path, not heading for spiritual graduation?

Welcome to HUMAN MASTERY 101

At times I felt I was not getting good grades in this class. In fact, sometimes I felt like I was failing altogether and wishing I could drop the course. Guess I have been judging myself. But the fact is you and I are in a human body and we are not getting out of this class without a few major challenges, illnesses and bad choices.

Sometimes don’t you wish you could stick your head in the sand to avoid further “life’s experiences?” But sadly we cannot avoid them from ourselves.

Following any of the world’s major religions or New Age thought, we have bought into the subtle program that we must be perfect and live a balanced life to warrant a graduating degree in HUMAN MASTERY 101. The paradox is that our world is a polarity, not neutrality. Being balanced 100% of the time in this reality really means you are stuck, not growing. If you think your life is balanced all the time, you are in denial, and running as hard as you can from the challenges chasing you.

But guess what? The conflict and challenge we are about, or try to avoid, is the very spiritual fuel that makes us grow stronger toward Mastery. So my question is how can we be superhuman, ascended masters and the pure embodiment of an angel while being human in a dualistic world? Now this is the test and challenge to figure out…being masterful in this dualistic world.

Do you know what makes one a Master, an angel or saint? It is not the absence of challenge but the right reaction to challenge that makes us masters of our human existence. If we act, using what we know is right, unconditionally in light of hard challenges, that is mastery. Jesus, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi, His Holiness and the rest based their enlightened behaviors on their principles. This is why we honor them. Jesus taught love and non-judgment even while he hung on the cross. Now that had to be hard to do. The Dalai Lama still smiles and practices nonviolence and compassion even though the Chinese still torture his people.

Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi both doubted their teachings, wondering if the world was ready for what they had to offer, but they kept on until someone judged them so much they took them out. They acted the best they could, with what they had to work with, based on their principles.

How could we live perfectly balanced when so much of the population is suffering, starving, waging war, committing murder? Can we separate ourselves from the collective and become masters over the material world? I don’t think so, unless you are a monk in a cave in the Himalayas; and even then you would be challenged by yourself.

I think we are all capable of AMAZING deeds and actions, but it’s unrealistic and maybe not very authentic to think we can avoid the changes and challenges that happen in this world. Maybe passing HUMAN MASTERY 101 is as simple as reacting with love when faced with hate, with peace when faced with anger, and with compassion when faced with judgment.

Life is not about being a master in a human body, but being a human masterfully! Maybe our challenges are tests giving us the opportunity to put into action the principles we believe in. Maybe, just maybe, the greater the test we attract the stronger we are and the closer we are to passing final exams.

So if you are having a bad day, week, or life — get over it. Own it, and decide to act rightly to the best of your ability with what you have and learn from the experience. And if you mess up…again…FORGIVE YOURSELF and go on. Remember no one is getting it right all the time even though they would like you to think so.

We are not superhuman, at least not all the time. We get tired, feel ill, get angry or sad. It is part of living in a dualistic world. On good days we are all heroes, masters, saints, and angels, and these are great times to be honored and celebrated. But remember to honor the courage it takes everyday to face our lives when the picture is not so pretty. Celebrate the growth when we are sick, lonely, lost, angry and sad.

It is all perfect, if you own the beautiful fact you are human, a master, an angel, a saint all wrapped into one very human body in a very wacky world. Oh and by the way, everyone passes HUMAN MASTERY 101 because God never judges you.

Aluna Joy Yaxk’in is an internationally known speaker and author. PO Box 1988, Sedona AZ 86339  Ph: 928-282-6292 E-mail: alunajoy@kachina.net  Web page: www.1spirit.com/alunajoy