When we Fight with Someone in Our Mind - (1076)

When we fight with someone in our mind, we are not fighting with the person at all. We are fighting with ourselves. To be precise we are fighting with our own concept of the other person that we have in our mind. So in effect we are fighting with our own mind really. One part of our mind against another part.

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We Create Two Mental Representations

We artificially create a person in our mind which we fight with and of course the part of our mind that represents us wins the battle and the part that is the other person loses the battle.

We always fight with ourselves in our mind, never the other person because we do not have them in our mind do we?

Concepts

We have a concept of them and then we go and fight with that concept. If we have no concept of them there would be no mental representation of them in our mind, and then nothing to fight with.

We Don’t Hate Really

We never actually hate, we only hate or reject the sensation or concept that is projected inside of ourselves when we think or see the other person.

Conclusion

This is such an interesting teaching! Very helpful, if we understand it deeply we can actually reduce the fighting that we do with others in our mind to a minimum, and that my good friends is PEACE!!!

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