That is a really good statement.
We make some manmy excuses every day, especially in the mornings as to why we can't or won't do something that day.
This is especially relevant to working towards our goals.
To wake up with this resolution in the morning and go ahead and do it brings changes.
Wake up and stop making excuses! Make this your motto for a while.
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When we are trying to understand an ego from a past event, what we end up doing is transferring our consciousness to the past, to feel as we felt and apprehend with our consciousness why.
When we are feeling something right now from any ego, what we end up doing is transferring our consciousness into ourselves to find out what is going on.
The way to transfer our consciousness to the past is to use imagination and emotion. To use imagination we need some concentration.
Imagine the scene and feel with memory how we felt that moment. Then suddenly we will be back there feeling for a few seconds what we actually felt.
When we are feeling as we did, we have transferred and also penetrated into our past selves acting and feeling in that past moment. Very magical.
The more and more we get use to transferring our consciousness into ourself, the better we can transfer it to something outside of ourselves, so to understand it, from within itself.
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This post is a supplement to the "Hidden Side of the Psychological Moon" lecture.
We see the egos of others so clearly and become bothered by them, because we have the same ego, and we are very identified with it.
When we are very identified with an ego we have no separation, and so we can't see it in ourselves, simply because we are it.
When we are identified with an ego in ourselves, it is tightly glued to us, and because of the fact that there is separation between us and others, it is so easy to see it in others. The separation bewtween you and me is always easy to perceive.
Becasue the ego is an egoic consciousness, when we see it in others, and it feels threatened because it likes to be the only one.
Each ego likes to be the boss inside of us, dethroning other egos inside of us and it like to do that outside of us as well.
If any can't be the only one present in the environment, it typically uses the word to criticise others who have the same ego. Often when we do that, it is quietly obvious to others that we are very similar if not just the same.
This is a good awakening point. If we find someone whom we don't like, because of the egos they have, it means straight away that we are very identified with the same egos in us.
Then we need to stop, have a look to see how identified we are with the same egos and then make some efforst to separate from it, and that strange yet mechanical antipathy will subside.
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From the tradition of the way of the bodhisattwa, the way is begin the day surrendering the merits of all our efforts to awaken, to others, forgetting ourselves.
This is the way of trust.
This is the way of the compassionare heart of the bodisattwa.
We know and trust that if others are helped to awaken we will be helped by them to awaken to something.
We can all do this. As frequently as we want to, or feel that we, or others need.
Really, precious are the people who do this seriously, every morning or every second day...
Doing this, we get a glimpse for what compassion is, and a flash of insight into the tremedous compassion courising through the Divinities and their bodhisattwas.
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Thanks once again to the very supportive and generous benfactor of this blog, the blog's app is now available on Android.
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It is so important to know when and when not to use our imagination.
The use of our imagination makes all the difference.
It is our imagination that trips us up and it is our imagination that delivers us success.
We use our imagination negatively when we project mechanically or unconsciously, which is not to our or anyone else's benefit. For example, someone is late, and being worried, we imagine them having had an accident.
In such cases we should not use imagination, just know that they are late and thgat is it. It stops there. The same thing when we are feeling unpleasant sensations in our body. Feel the sensations but not imagine anything else.
If we feel the sensations and nothing else, as if we lack imagination, we will help ourselves out so much. We won't activate the emotional cnetre which then activates our insticinvitve centre and the unconscious parts of our physiology, where we lose control and feelings such as panic and nervousness appear, all becasue of the nagative images in our thoughts. It is the added dimension that is often to more difficult to deal with.
Using imagaintion wrongly can make things unbearable and more painful.
We use our imagination positively and correctly when it is to the benefit of ourselves and others to carry out a specific task. Such as for example, meditating, praying, being on the look out, cooking, planning, decorating, painting, designing, writing etc. Here we need to use imagination. Though when it comes to the ego we do well not to use it.
The consciosuness does not use lmagination to trip us up. It uses it consciously to solve problems, open new dimensionas and to know.
The way to understand all of this is to deal with some things without the dimension of imagination and with it. Some instances it is just better to see what the physical senses perceive and in some instancnes it is better to use imagination as well what the senses perceive.
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This is hard to do, but worth it.
For example, say we see someone with a bad attitude, remember this exercise and make a conscious effort. Use our imagination to be in their shoes and look out from their eyes in the circumstances they are in, to be open to what they could be feeling.
Stay there a minute or two and watch the antipathy and fascination start to release.
As soon as the fascination starts to go, things change in our perception. Judgement goes, and with the judgement, those feelings of magnetic dislike also go.
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Good to have a study of these processes as represented below. So as to see how they work within us.
Once we are aware of how they work within us, we can start to change one process for the other. That is let go of the victim loop and take up more the accountability process.
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the ontological perspective it has been said that each Being comes into creation to learn truths about Itself - which are really in turn cosmic truths.
The Absolute, the Great Flame from which all creations stem from, knows Itself through Its creation. Furthermore It knows Itself an atom more when one of It's virginal sparks knows Itself.
To know and to learn imply the unknown and the undeveloped. That is unrealized. To realize is to know, become aware of, learn, develop and complete that development.
So when a Being enters into creation there are lackings and unknowns within It. Even though it is pristine and free of conditioning.
Owing to the duality of creation, what happens is that these lessons or cosmic truths to be learned become the Being's greatest conditionings. The way these lessons are learnt is by undoing these conditionings.
Therefore each ego that we have contains lessons about cosmic truths hiding within it. The way it is hidden is via the lesson or cosmic truth being inverted or polarized in duality to the opposite.
These lessons are the reasons why we have the egos that we have. We need to learn these lessons. Our Being needs the apprehension of these cosmic truths.
These lessons are the deep meaning of the ego. The deep meaning of the ego is intimately related to why our Inner Being lacks the full apprehension of these cosmic truths.
For example, pride is such a huge factor for humanity. This is because the Monads on Earth have not learnt lesson the cosmic truth behind pride. Pride was what made this creation to occur and therefore the Monads in the Absolute before creation had not understood certain cosmic truths yet and so creation was precipitated and it is now through this creation that the cosmic truth behind pride has to be learnt.
Why each Divine Being lacks certain learnings is a mystery. It is a mystery that only we can decode and we do this by dissolving the conditionings.
All the parts of our Being must capture the deep meaning of any ego.
The deep meaning of an ego is closely related to its function. We must look into the big and small picture of the ego to know better its function.
We can look through our history and see why we created that ego and there is much light there. The deep meaning is behind all those circumstances and chains of cause and effect. It is the magic force that drew one into those circumstances to create or strengthen that ego in the first place.
When released it means that that ego has died or is ready to die. The deep meaning once known has to be deeply understood and developed for all the parts of the Being to capture it and therefore fuse deeply into the whole of the Being.
It has much to do with the remedy or anti-dote of that ego. The whole reason for existing of that ego can be understood through knowledge of the deep meaning of that ego.
It is the spirit of any "I" and is present int he background motivation of an "I's" manifestations.
It must be learnt to complete the intimate learning of the Being. When it is known then Being will not create that ego again. When it is unknown there is always a greater risk of recreating the ego again.
The deep meaning can be released in the second mountain when we are truly dying, after the second mountain or before the second mountain as a grace or gift of our Inner Divinity so to help accelerate our work. It can also be taught to us by those who have found it.
We must start by asking the Divine Mother to teach it to us.
Here are some real examples of he deep meaning having been taught to us. For lust, the deep meaning has to do with being brought down and limited so as to not rise as high as the gods. Lust always drops our energy levels. If human beings even with a conditioned psyche were to use their full sexual or creative potential they could challenge the Gods. Lust keeps them totally in control, by being fascinated, distracted and not having enough energy to even think about 'taking the heavens by storm'.
The deep meaning of anger has to do with removing obstacles.
The deep menaing of pride has a lot to do with the Being's sense of balance, majesty and dignity. Which in many ways is related to justice.
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The anti-dote to anger is certainly force. Conscious force used correctly and internally. Bring conscious force when we are about to get angry and apply it correctly within us, we will avoid getting angry.
In the difficult situations of life that call for force, our essence will send force. It will do this automatically and naturally. If our force is trapped in our perceptions of being harmed, it will express as anger. Even if our force is trapped not all of our force is trapped. We always have some force free. Therefore we can all remedy anger.
Real and free force can be used to make us enduring, strong, calm and capable of doing the right thing within us and outside of us in the difficult moment.
The force that we have must be used that way to remedy anger. To displace anger and make it an obvious wrong answer. Because we are weak inside of ourselves, we become angry.
We get angry to push away pain, becasue we can not deal with it. Whether it be psychological, spiritual, energetic or physical pain, we basically get angry to escape or stop the pain or what is becomiong uncomfortable.
We get angry to remove delays, obstacles, opposition and animosity, because it is very difficult and uncomfortable to deal with. We need force or psychological strength to deal with these factors. Therefore, the real force comes to help, to make us strong. When we are weak we get angry to get ourselves out of these uncomfortable situations.
Force brings us calmness and serenity. The way of force is learnt by undoing anger.
Bring force to make us strong inside of ourselves to deal with ourselves in difficult moments. This is different to using force on others outside of ourselves. That is anger.
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The trick is to use force internally to not fall into anger. To not get angry requires force.
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Literature is an expression of human nature. Really good literature is about unfolding the truths inside one human being, to invite others see the truths lying within them.
If literature then expresses what we have inside then the below are the types of conflicts we all face and have to work through at one point.
Every conflict that we have outside of us we have already existing within us.
We can work to resolve conflicts by precisely locating what in us gets triggered that we have a conflict with. A person may trigger a feeling within us and then it is not the person we really have a conflict with it is that feeling.
The keys are to dissolve that feeling that is produced by ourselves (by working with comprehension and the Divine Mother) and or work to relate better to that feeling. A way to relate better starts with acceptance and stop disliking and projecting negatively when we feel that feeling.
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A good level of respect is when we consciously don't release what is in our abyss, in any situation, on ourselves and or others.
With this level of respect we deliberately stop those elements in our abyss from expressing as raw as they are, and take what is correct in them (if there is - often there is not) and express it respectfully - meaning to express the message in a way that keeps the diginity of ourselves and others.
This should not really be lacking from any relationship, even in a relationship to an animal.
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Here is a good guide for how we can form the values in our emotional centre. Using our consciousnesss to do it,
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This post presents in note form, points to do with working to understand the Wheel of Samsara, and how we can work to liberate ourselves from it.
I must say that this post was inspired from a study of the lecture presented by Glorian which can be found here.
It is a really excellent presentation that you too, I am sure will gain a lot of insight from it.
I believe this is a very powerful teaching, as all human beings can relate to it.
There are actually two wheels of Samsara, the great external one and the internal one, which is really psychological - a psychological wheel of Samsara.
Samsara means the continuation of a cycle. Samsara is really a state of consciousness that perpetuates the repetition of cycles.
Nirvana means cessation or to cut. Nirvana then is the ability or rather the state of consciosuness that cuts through the state of consciousness that constantly repeats the same. It is a state that can stop the repetition and bring us liberation from the many cycles.
It is better to be free or freer of Samsara then be happy in Samsara.
In order to be free from something we need to comprehend it deeply. To be free is not enough to rebel or protest against something.
We must understand deeply how something works and how we function in relation to it. When it comes to the wheel of Samsara we must know what makes us suffer and what keeps us suffering.
To liberate ourselves, we need lots of energy and clear knowledge and understanding.
The better we know Samsara the easier it will be for us to free ourselves from it. Knowing the qualities of life on the wheel of Samsara is needed for this.
Nothing in the physical remains. All that is physical passes away. This not only applies to physical life and objects but to events, situations.
One thing that is certain is that there will always be uncertainity. We live in uncertainty and we try without stopping to mitigate this ever present uncertainity.
Our job here is to accept that everything is uncertain. When we do that we stop being disappointed when things change.
In samsara we are never satisified. We desire something and get it, then we become disatisified and this cycle continually repeats without end. We always want more even when we have much more than we can manage. Satisfaction is ever elusive and fleeting while disatisfaction is ever present.
This is always the way in Samsara, we can take years to build our reputation and in seconds with one dubious decision ruin what took us years to build. Spiritually speaking we can spend a lifetime working in the initiatic path and with one action, taking a minute or less, fall and lose all that we spent a lifetime working for.
Nothing stays constant. At one point we are up and later we are the bottom. Our popularity reaches a maximum and then wanes and we slide to the bottom.
We suffer becasue of duality and relativity in Samsara. we suffer in many ways. We suffer physically due to Karma created by our sleeping consciousness. However, all of our suffering begins psychologically due to our sleeping consciousness. Our sleeping and conditioned consciousness threw us into Samasara to pay our debts and to reawaken our consciosuness that has been conditioned.
Everything in Samsara is relative. There are many refernce points and everything is perceived and decied upon relative tot he many reference points. In Samsara an absolute sense of bad does not exist, what exists is a relative snese of good. This is what rules, we all do what is good reltive to the reference point we take up. This reference point can change as is charateristic in Samsara.
In Samsara we return and return to eliminate the "I's'" that we have created. That is the secret why we keep returning to take up a new body. When we eliminate the conditoning that bottles parts of our essence we learn the lessons to not make the same mistakes that keeps us stuck in the cycles of Samsara.
If we are born we must die. Having the essence fragmented, with each fragment being fragmented due to its conditioning we must come to life to take up the opportunity to dissolve it. As eveything that has a begining has an end, the physical body must also die. To be born and die while being asleep is painful.
We enter and leave this life alone. Becasue the consciousness is also asleep we feel far from our Inner Being and all its parts. Each human being is really a universe and no universe is solitary there are many many inhabitants. Because the consciousness is alseep we do not perceive this.
The remedy is to awaken. That is to awaken our consciousness.
To take refuge in our consciousness, to dissolve loneliness, to end disatisfaction and to cut through the many stagneat cycles.
An excellent place to start is to awaken to the qualities of life on the Wheel of Samsara.
By being aware of and awake to the different qualities of Samsara we help ourselves to acquire the awakening needed ot begin to liberate ourselves from Samsara.
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When we play with negativity there is that feeling that someone somewhere corporeal or incorporeal is listening...
Openly expressing negativity may change things in our future...
Even openly thinking negatively may change our future...
Deep down we don't want the negativity that we are expressing to happen.
So we are playing with fire (negativity) and sometimes playing with fire means risking getting burnt.
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From sacred geometry comes the triangle, the circle and the square.
The triangle teaches us the Law of three the most important practical law, that shows us how to balance, resolve problems and how to create.
The circle teaches us about the completeness of everything. How the Monad is in everything and everything comes from the Monad and returns to the Monad. Our whole life is a circle.
It also teaches us about the work of octaves. How everything starts and returns to the beginning and constantly repeats at higher and higher levels.
The square teaches us of the basis of everything and shows what we need to spread our consciousness across and polish. The four elements, the four ways, the four states of consciousness, the four attributes of the Sphinx for the path, the four steps of meditation, the four bodies of sin and the four worlds. See this post on the Law of Four.
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There is so much knowledge out there now that can really help anyone to change and know themselves.
The major difference with Gnosis is that it is the change and the knowing with a transcendental aim of realisation and liberation.
Where as with all this knowledge available people change mostly when needed and sporadically without that transcendental outlook.
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Our reactions are usually what makes things worse on two fronts: for ourselves and for others.
Where producing a response with our consciousness does not make things worse for ourselves and mostly not for others.
To watch with alertness our reactions, seeing what is reacting and not give our motor centre over to that reaction is the method.
To help ourselves do this there are a number of keys. One is to listen so as to see what in the other persons or people is speaking. That is to ask ourselves the question: "From what place are they speaking? Are they hurt? Frustrated? Confused? etc.
Knowing the above helps us to respond. Instead of reacting. When we respond we can talk to or address the psychological place from there others are coming from.
Knowing that reacting makes things worse and at any moment we are standing on a cliff's edge. Where below is an abyss of some kind. If we react we fall down the cliff taking a lot of time and effort to get back up to the edge again.
Knowing that it is something uncomprehended inside of ourselves that reacts and when we react we lose the chance to comprehend it and we strengthen that which reacted within us.
Knowing that sacrificing our reactions allows us the opportunity to liberate ourselves from the difficult situation. Reacting ties us more to the difficulty of the situation.
Not reacting allows the storm to calmly pass.
This is an important discipline to dissolve many egos.
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Within ourselves 'not caring' about something that requires care, has real ramifications.
It is basically a wedge in our conscious mind that over time creates an opening to our subconscious where many submerged "I's" have the opportunity to surface.
To not care about something in action means to let something slide or to treat something below standard. In other words, it implies negligence and ill-treatment out of laziness and disdain.
To care is a real quality of our Being. It keeps things going at good levels of well-being. Without people caring, all things would just flop.
To care is the precursor for many other values to appear and it also keeps many very negative elements from our subconscious away.
To care about others, to care about ourselves, to care about our health, to care about our Being, to care about our work, to care about our future...
We have much resistance to care about things and much lack of acceptance ot have to care.
There are things we should care about and there are things we shouldn't. The general formula is that things we should care about things that make things better and give us positive results and not care about things that make things worse and turn out inconvenient.
Caring is about setting ourselves up for action to do something positive for what we care about.
If we don't care about something, we can turn that around to care and to care more. Or we can decide to not be in a situation where we need to care and maybe others will take caring over.
Either way, caring is a part of life and the universe, and if we care, things move forward and if we don't things fall away.
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Imagination is a huge power that we all have.
Imagination links to emotion and to will.
When we imagine, we see, but we also feel something. We actually create an emotion. An emotion that a few seconds ago, we were not feeling.
Therefore imagination gives us the power to create emotion at will.
Try, imagine yourself in a relaxed environment and being relaxed, soon enough you will actually feel relaxed.
The trick is to give your imagination a bit of time to work within you.
That is why we need concentration, which in terms of imagination is the ability to hold steady the images within our imagination.
We need to really develop both imagination and concentration. Study Kasina meditation for some guidelines on this.
Imagination therefore gives life to things. It has within it the power to conceive.
It brings openings and actually opens new dimensions within us. It in many ways brings new dimensions to us.
Imagination is the way to get in touch with dimensions beyond the physical. For example with imagination we can perceive the fourth dimension and perceive dimensions in general.
Imagination provides an entry into our inner dimensions.
Relaxation and innocence help us to develop our imagination. As well as serenity.
Imagination in the hands of the ego becomes fantasy. When imagination is conditioned it becomes fantasy. That is imagination is mechanically used to compensate for what we do not have, are not and can't do.
The main conditioning factors of imagination are compensation and duality. Very much like the sexual energy. Masculine and Feminine always ,duality - two. The sexual energy is binary, it follows the Law of Polarities.
Imagination and sexual energy also work together and share many elements in common. One is that both create and both give power to whatever they are channeled into.
When we lose control of our imagination we lose control of our internal state. When the internal images get out of control our emotions grow out of control.
Imagination produces our internal image, that is what we see about ourselves is a set of images that our imagination generates for us. Those images become our identity and we always do what our identity is.
The right use of imagination is at the heart of awakening. Imagination is that powerful. Because of it we can awaken and because of we can fall asleep.
A good standard for the development of imagination is to be able to hold steady any image that we imagine for at least five minutes.
Will is making things to happen in our inner and outer worlds. Will is what manifests. Will is what turns the tides within us.
Will is the freedom to choose and to sacrifice. Sacrifice is the choice of one good superior to another.
Will is the magic within us that manifests things. The Law of Attraction or Manifestation that is so popular these days is really a prodigy of people's own will.
The goal is to give will to our values. Will into the values equals the values in action and expression.
We start to express and develop any value by using the imagination.
Imagine we think, feel, act and speak with the value, virtue or quality we want to develop. After doing that we feel what the value feels like. This is because imagination sets up emotion.
With the new emotion created we can contrast the ego's way of feeling against the virtue's way of feeling. Then will appears to allow us to chose one or the other.
The more we do this the more our consciousness sees that the virtue is better and a shift or rebalancing occurs within us favouring the value. Then a current of will can run into the value to give it life and manifestation within us and then outside of us in our life and in the lives of others.
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The two values of honesty and integrity help a person to maintain a good relationship to their sexual energy.
When these two values especially in relation to sexuality suffer, a person's sexuality suffers.
These two values also help a person to solve problems or issues related to sexuality, as well as regenerate and refine it.
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We can be attached to the money we have. The perception of money we have is relative. To some it is something, to others it is nothing.
Besides that, because we don't want to put it, or some of it, at the service of the work, when there is a real opportunity to do so, we end up getting stuck.
Not using that or some of that money wisely at the service of the work and the great cause, ties us further to life and matter. To keep that money intact and do something for the work while keeping that money intact we have to work more and more and the more stuck we get.
When we release our grip on it, things shift forward for us. What are we here to do? To guard a set of figures on a screen or to live and to go forward in developing our Inner Being?
Trust is important. If we give to the Being, the Inner Being will give back to us. As we have cared for the Being the Being will look after and care for us.
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If one day we decide to avoid no one during our day, we will find out how much avoid people.
We avoid people many times during a given day. We only really know how much when we try to not avoid anyone.
Most of the avoidances are due to not having time or wanting to give time. When we are running late we tend to avoid others.
The observation of avoiding people because we are running late tells us a lot. We avoid due to not accepting that we are late and not taking responsibility for our predicament.
We may lack the ability to communicate in a nice way that we can't talk right now.
When we have done something wrong we avoid people, because we have fear that they will address that. In this case the avoidance is due to a lack of acceptance and responsibility.
To avoid is to not present our face. Which has a lot to do with not being responsible for what we have done. We don't take the step of being responsible because we don't yet want to correct or repair the harm we are responsible for.
There is a lot of subconscious to discover when we decide not to avoid people.
We may not have done anything wrong and we may not be late yet we avoid people. Why? Because there is something that we don't like about them and want to face. Because they have a knack or are the same as us and facing them means to face something uncomfortable about ourselves.
In general, avoiding people is about avoiding something we find uncomfortable.
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Anger arouses the person and then foreplay begins. That is, the two people start to feel annoyed or frustrated and then they begin to stir each other up. There are abrupt challenges, ironic and sarcastic comments, instances of mockery and insult accompanied with demeaning accusations etc. etc.
After the act of foreplay, the initial annoyance or frustration has heightened, and then the angry exchanges begin.
There is no way to stop that exchange of angry ill-will until something breaks...
Common sense breaks, the absurd is present, two people yelling and not listening to each over something trivial. Perhaps something physically breaks, perhaps someone's feelings break, perhaps someone's sense of decency breaks or perhaps someone gets hurt or some words that are said break lines of respect...
This is a lot like the climax of the normal sexual act that results in the loss of energy. In the case of anger, there is always a loss of energy, and there is most often a loss of image, reputation, professionalism, respect, love...
Anger stops once this loss appears... Then begins the recovery after anger, which is often very costly. What is broken in 20 seconds or less takes weeks to repair.
Perhaps people engage in anger to this extent, due to a lack of the sexual act in the common person, or due to a lack of transmutation in the person working gnostically.
Sometimes the ego of lust knowing about this connection to anger and the sexual act, subconsciously uses anger to engage this way to feed itself and send a message...
If we know deeply the "I" of fornication we will become aware of this interaction that anger sets up. We will come to see that allowing anger to go to this limit is the same as losing the sexual energy. It is certainly not Transmutation...
The key is to cut the foreplay and to not feed that. Bring something different straight away to not feed the foreplay.
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To overcome anger in the moment it is arising we have to do something different. Something different inside and outside.
That something different is not to answer with force like the other person is if they are, or it is to look for why we, or the other person are angry.
The issue causing anger is not the anger. It is something different that we can work with and remedy.
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Home invitations are really good. They give the invitees the opportunity to dissolve and let go of concepts they have those they are visiting.
Concepts changed and let go of is a really good experience. It brings light and a degree of superior emotion. Certainly not a waste to time...
To create new concepts and negative ones at that, is not a useful thing to do for our consciousness.
There are people who invite to their home and there are people who don't.
The 'plus' of those that don't, is that good concepts (which are maybe false) stay, while the 'minus' is that people don't really get to know them and they give themselves a chance to give from within their at home daily reality.
The 'plus' of those that do, is that people get the chance to let go of wrong concepts, and the 'minus' is that perhaps people can get disappointed. This though seldom happens. The 'minus' side here is slight compared to those who don't invite people to their home.
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After a while of working on any ego the need for a discipline specific to that ego emerges.
Some discipline examples are: envy - no comparing, lust - cut impressions and no fantasy, anger - few or no words and move on, fear - live the moment and no projections etc.
It is a discipline that arises out of our efforts of comprehension and yearning to dissolve that ego.
It is something that we create and it makes us to remember what others have said about dissolving that same ego.
Without that discipline we know that we can not progress.
When we start to work with this discipline we are in the way of dissolving that ego.
Holding to that discipline weakens the ego and brings forward the light and strengthens the will to choose the light.
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It seems like the expectation people have to do with spiritual development is that it progresses in a smooth straight line.
The reality it seems is much more like a very zig-zagged up and down spiral that in time slopes upwards producing development.
The teachings don't really explain this...
It is only really our own example and the examples of others doing the work that we suspect, and later learn, that this is way things go.
It seems that what is important in the path is the overall picture. We all have so much to pay and transform making progress very complicated.
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Not sure if uncertainty has that function to make us to look inwardly for what is always there and always will be. It sure does do that though.
After looking for certainty in all the different places outside of ourselves and not finding it we have only one other place to look - inside.
There inside of ourselves we can take refuge in that certainty within ourselves. The certainty that our inner Being is there and will always be there and is helping from instant to instant.
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Master Samael says that the soul is fabricated from a movement from the centre towards the boundary returning to the centre.
For example, we start the work from inside, feeling we need to change. Then we find a school in the outside world and apply the teaching. As we apply the teaching it becomes ours - that is a tool of our consciousness.
We do that with meditation, self-inquiry, self-remembering etc.
When we make any teaching conscious we make soul bit by bit.
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When we trust we can let go of things. It is hard to let go of things when we lack trust. They go hand in hand, trust and letting go.
The are four classical ways we can let go of things:
1.) Letting go of physical possessions not needed anymore
2.) Letting go of negativity by cultivating contentment and happiness in the present
3.) Letting go of expectations by giving without expecting returns
4.) Letting go of concepts, memory and data (information)
Letting go of control is also interesting. The below guide shows what is easy to let go of because we can not control it.
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Upon reflection, lists really seem to be a real thing.
In human life there are: waiting lists, parts list, check lists, shopping list, 'to do' list, 'bucket' list, stock list, delivery list, guest list, passenger list, standby list, punch list, hit list, wish list and so on and so on...
In the esoteric field there are: list of tests, list of the stages of the parts, list of the parts of the Being, list of laws, list of rays, list of urgencies, list of priorities, list of debts, list of egos etc.
They seem to be something more than an invention of the human mind.
Lists seem to be the human being's mental expression of the cosmic principle of order.
If a system of some kind has several parts and an order to the way those parts come together and function, a human being will create a list when he or she studies that system.
The function of any list is to give the complete story and detail the order of things.
Using a list we can complete and order anything.
It is a tool of order. A tool of 'to do'.
Therefore we can use lists to order our psychological work, as well as our psyche.
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Even though anger looks strong and courageous, it is really a coward. Anger is the psychology of using force to escape our lack of inner strengths to solve difficult situations.
The psychology of using anger has within it the false image of being strong and courageous. Upon a deeper look there is inner cowardice.
When there is a difficult situation we need force to go inside and accept the situation within us. We need force to look inside ourselves to accept our fault if one is being pointed out. We need force to be patient or hold back our instinctive impulses. We need force to engage our consciousness to find a solution. All of this requires force. It is correct that our consciousness sends us force in such situations because we need it. We just need the right psychology to handle that force being sent.
When we use force against someone we are a coward because we escape going through the uncomfortable feelings of holding back our impulses, the uncomfortable feelings of being patient and the uncomfortable feelings of accepting our errors.
Because we lack inner strength to handle our comfortable feelings we resort to anger. This is the very definition of cowardice, which is to escape what is in front of us.
The conclusion is, we need to develop inner strengths to help dissolve anger.
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There is much more to these two egos than money and food.
We know that in every ego there are ineffable values of the Divine Being within it. We know further to that, that each value is a way in itself to the our Inner Being.
For example: the way of love, the way of wisdom, the way of the warrior (force), the way of the truth (truth seeker) etc. etc.
Each way is a wide infinite avenue to the sun (divinity).
Each person has a way and that is why it is so important that everyone studies these values or ways so that they can go quicker to their interior Divinity.
What is inside greed and gluttony? Great values hide inside each of these two defects?
The two sides of greed are: on the plus side, it is having an excess beyond what is practically usable (e.g. 200 pairs of shoes), on the negative side, it is not having to the extent of not being practical (e.g. no car, one shirt, one pair of pants, no phone, no fridge etc.).
The middle which is close to the value has to do with the discern and will to know and chose what we need.
There is inner contentment as the value. Often due to some kind of non-acceptance of ourselves or inner lacking we go into greed to get more and more, to compensate for that less. Substituting having for being.
Gluttony, the two sides are: the positive - over eating and drinking. The negative side - suffering because of missing out.
The value starts in the middle of these two extremes. Which is to take advantage of what comes our way in balance. To be fulfilled, satisfied and in control of ourselves make the most of the opportunity in a balanced an internal way. We need concentration and self-control to do this.
These defects are what manage knowing, being and having. We relate to these three principles through these two egos and other egos as well such as pride and lust.
In many ways our P.P.P (often pride) uses these defects to enhance either one of the three: knowing, being or having.
In many ways these egos can compensate for certain lacks.
The person who eats too much is compensating for a lack of control or lack of satisfaction and fulfilment in some important area of his or her life.
The person who is greedy is compensating for a lack of power of something that is rightfully theirs to have dominion over in their life.
Greed takes much from others. Unity is something within greed. The opposite of greed is to consider unity. No one can satisfy their greed without the help of others.
Generosity is a counter-measure to greed. Also greed forgets what we give to others will come back to us.
Greed is not really about money, time and things it is about the heart. About how closed the heart has become.
Gluttony is a sign that something is bothering us emotionally. We have to sit with gluttony and discover what is behind it.
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