What is this moment asking of me?
I talk a lot about the process of surrender.
Whereby you give up your own personal wants, desires, expectations, and even fears.
I learned surrender from Michael Singer. But it's been a deep (perhaps the deepest) spiritual practice for thousands of years.
When first starting out on this path, the voice in your head doesn't like it. It starts rebelling against what it believes to be the stupidest decision you've ever made.
"What do you mean you're not going to have any wants and desires?"
"How will you enjoy life?"
"How will you achieve your dreams?"
But once you realise that these things don't bring lasting joy and happiness, the voice in the head gets a little less frantic.
The next, and most difficult step, is this sticking with it.
(and this is hard).
So here's how I do it:
I ignore everything the voice in my head is telling me to do. And once I've let go of it, I look to see what the moment in front of me is asking of me.
Often it's something uncomfortable. Taking on work I don't want to do for example. This is wonderful. That resistance to what the moment is asking of you is exactly what will free you from the pain caused by your unfulfilled desires.
That's the path of surrender.
Often referred to as the Pathless Path.
Because you don't decide the path. Life does.