don Miguel Ruiz – Exclusive Interview
“Truth” he explained, “Can’t be shared once you try to use language to describe it … it is no longer true.” He held up that mirror to show me, I could create my own reality, dream a new dream … So when I shared my “aha” moment …he said “so ok now you can choose to be happy or stupid.” We laughed again.
Sigh … yep I get it now … he has said that to me before …and I did not really know what he meant. During one of our trips to Mexico, I was deeply distraught, realizing I had never really processed my grief of suffering two back to back miscarriages. I was hysterically crying, hyperventilating, shaking uncontrollably. He said to me, “Don’t you be stupid!” and then he snapped his fingers in my face and instantly my pain vanished. He “snapped” me out of my own addiction to suffering, in one instant! It still to this day is very hard to explain and it took me years to understand this experience. I used to think to myself what a bizarre thing for him to say to me… but it was the truth. That easily we can shift our suffering to joy. I know because I experienced it …in one moment …I was in that “peace that surpasses understanding.”
Reluctantly, I realized that what I had been doing for the last decade was projecting back to him all my insecurities, my lies I had in head, my fear, my pain, my addiction to suffering, I had been creating and living my own personal hell. Yet still, in all my truth seeking and neuroses, don Miguel just continued to love me unconditionally.
Flash forward to December 21, 2012, I found myself at the pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan with the Ruiz family in ceremony. We symbolically broke all our old agreements. In retrospect, I think don Miguel was just placating our need for “ceremony”. I remember him saying we can do this at the hotel. Ha, ha…that is don Miguel. Of course for us, it was more dramatic to be at the Pyramids during the “galactic alignment.” According to don Miguel, NOW it is time for us create New Agreements for ourselves and for our planet to really dream a new world into being.
