人生的象棋游戏
不管你是否意识到，你的生活在本质上是一场象棋游戏。直接或间接地，你和其他人所采取的一切行动都只是你人生棋盘上的棋子。大多数人从未意识到，有工具帮助他们学习如何更有效地运作他们的棋盘，从而使游戏和随后的灵魂成长变得更加愉快和富有成效。他们往往只是在生活中徘徊，通常让自己任意行动或让其他人为他们在这个化身中选择体验的功课设置舞台。
那么，我们如何才能学会下这盘我们所知道的人类生活的象棋游戏呢？面对你的恐惧。不要害怕离开你的舒适区。做当下对你有益处的事，而不是周围的人认为或感觉对你有好处的事。既不要让你的自我通过担心你过去的行为或结果而把你捆绑在过去，也不要让它带来对未来的恐惧。宇宙完全知道你需要什么。既然你必须体验这种经历，那么为什么不按你的条件来掌控这种体验呢？
要记住，每个人都只是你的人生棋盘上的一名棋手，而你也是他们的人生棋盘上的一名棋手。正如弥勒所说，生活中没有意外。你可以选择在这个叫做生活的象棋游戏中面对你的恐惧，走出舒适区，你也可以选择在迷茫中漫步。你的个人行为和你对他人行为的响应将会为你提供很多灵魂的学习和进化。
游戏结束时，只有你自己才能在镜子大厅里判断你自己和你的行为。你面对恐惧了吗？你离开舒适区了吗？例如，你是否因为害怕独处、害怕家人会怎么想、害怕伤害孩子等而保持着一段关系？或者，你是否从某个不仅在今生中控制你，而且可能在其他四五个化身中也控制了你的能量中挣脱了出来？他们都只是你游戏中的一个玩家，为你提供面对恐惧，走出舒适区，释放能量的机会。
如你所见，你的举动也会影响其他人的游戏和成长。通过面对你的恐惧，让宇宙把你带出舒适区来掌控你的游戏。现在轮到你了，你要怎样走自己的下一步棋呢？
艾伦·麦克洛伊
The Chess Game of Life
Irrespective of whether you are aware of it, your life is essentially a chess game. Directly or indirectly, all actions you and others take are just moves on your chess boards of life. Most people never realize that there are tools to assist them to learn how to navigate their board more efficiently, so as to make the game and subsequently their soul growth more enjoyable and fruitful. They tend to just wander through life, usually allowing their own arbitrary moves or others’ to set the stages for the lessons that they have chosen to experience during this incarnation.
So how can we learn to play this chess game of life that we know as the human condition? Face your fears. Don’t be afraid to move out of your comfort zone. Do what is good for you at the moment and not what those around think or feel is good for you. Don’t let the Self keep you trapped in the past by worrying about your past actions or results, and don’t let it bring in fear of the future. The universe knows exactly what you need. You have to live the experience, so why not take control of the experience on your terms?
Remember, everyone is just a player on your board and you on theirs. As Maitreya has said, there are no accidents in life. You can choose to face your fears and move out of the comfort zone of this chess game called life, or you can choose to wander through the maze in a daze. There will be much learning and evolution of the soul based on your personal actions and subsequent responses to others’ actions.
At the end of the game, you and only you will judge yourself and your actions in the Hall of Mirrors. Did you face your fears? Did you move out of your comfort zone? For example, did you stay in a relationship out of fear of being alone, fear of what the family will think, fear of hurting the children etc? Or did you break the energy of someone that may have dominated you not only in this lifetime, but probably four or five other lifetimes? They were just a player in your game that came to allow you the opportunity to release the energy by facing the fear and moving out of the comfort zone.
As you can see, your move affects their game and their growth, too. Take control of your game by facing your fears and allowing the universe to take you out of the comfort zone. It’s your turn now – what’s the next move on your chess board?
Alan McElroy