God acts Funny

“The mind thinks that to be free, to be liberated or enlightened, means to be wiped clean of all unpleasant experiences, but that's not the way it is. The Divine wouldn't dare defile itself by removing something. That would be like cutting off your arm. But to experience these same emotions or experiences as the mystery, as God, and as the mystery of yourself, is to totally transform them.

See the wholeness of what’s actually here, the quality of the timeless as it displays itself through all of experience. Then your own sense of the sacred, known inside of what you are, widens beyond simply pleasurable experiences and becomes the whole spectrum of experience. You start to perceive directly that all of manifestation, no matter what it is, is the flowering of the Divine. If there is confusion, that is God being confused. If there is clarity, that's God being clear. Next you will be able to see God in the dump, in the trash thrown in the gutter, in the street person who hasn't bathed in six months. You start to see the same sacredness everywhere, the same intimate dharmic relationship of the mystery to itself. And so it goes, more and more, deeper and deeper penetration, and into more areas. As you perceive this sacredness in all things, you know you are not who you thought you were. You are an alive, awake mystery that can't be touched or seen.

When this is known, you can be in sacred relationship. If this is not known and you try to make your relationships sacred, you are only trying to conform to your idea of what the sacred relationship is, and this is better known as violence. You may do this for a good reason, with good intentions, but if you try to make a relationship sacred, you've missed it. You've missed that it is sacred. When you see that a relationship is already sacred, then you are really seeing that it is a manifestation of the mystery itself.

When you see that everything is sacred, you do not lose the ability to make distinctions. You can see where there may be dishonesty in a relationship, where you are not holding the highest integrity, where there is a lack of intimacy, or where the relationship is built upon images, ideas, projections, or demands. Just because it is seen as sacred does not mean you do not also see parts of it that might be ridiculous. These views are not exclusive of each other. God acts funny at times…”

Adyashanti,  Emptiness Dancing