Sometimes the only thing that helps me get past any difficult problem - an unexpected nasty surprise that first hurts my heart and then sends me scrambling for metaphysical relief - is to first remember my ego wants me to take it very seriously. I try to lighten up and remember that everything is the same (a helpful guy recently provided a useful visual aid of 4 photos of 4 different dumbbells weighing the same). I am soothed to know that no matter what it is - because it is experienced in space/time - it will change or disappear - and if I see it properly (as my own projection) - I have faith and some evidence that it heals on the level where it counts. It is a practice. It is simple. May I be honest? It is hard. It can make me wonder if I can really get anywhere. Am I naive to hope that one day my first response won’t be to gasp in unexpected pain first - but rather to see it, as it is incoming, for what it is - and to smile and keep on loving....
Sometimes the only thing that helps me get past any difficult problem - an unexpected nasty surprise that first hurts my heart and then sends me scrambling for metaphysical relief - is to first remember my ego wants me to take it very seriously. I try to lighten up and remember that everything is the same (a helpful guy recently provided a useful visual aid of 4 photos of 4 different dumbbells weighing the same). I am soothed to know that no matter what it is - because it is experienced in space/time - it will change or disappear - and if I see it properly (as my own projection) - I have faith and some evidence that it heals on the level where it counts. It is a practice. It is simple. May I be honest? It is hard. It can make me wonder if I can really get anywhere. Am I naive to hope that one day my first response won’t be to gasp in unexpected pain first - but rather to see it, as it is incoming, for what it is - and to smile and keep on loving....