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'Unbalanced' Notes - (5778)

Introduction

This post is a list of some of the things we do when we are psychologically unbalanced.

It is a good 'to fix' list in our work towards the fourth type of man - the balanced man.

Reviewing this list will show us that we can only really be the balanced man through lots of psychological work.

'Unbalanced' to Balanced List

The list below presents the unbalance. It is for us to use as a tool to bring what is unbalanced into balance.

•We say we like balance, in the sense of presenting both sides, yet we tend to one side only. Mostly the negative side.

What we tell others to do we don't or can't do.

We give advice we ahve never followed or don't follow.

We talk more than we do.

We don't tolerate others judging others yet we judge othres and are critical in our own way.

Our own way of things is special and is not the norm standard error. There is always soemthing special about our errors making them not 'errors'.

We can't see the wrong and right in our own statements, positions and decisions. We tend to only see the right.

We only like to talk more thatn listen or we like to listen more than talk. When we talk we don;t really talk and when we listen we don't really listen.

We make others take responsibility while we don't fully take up responsibility for ourselves.

We want love but don't love.

We do to others what we don't like being done to us.

We think we know others well, enough to tell them what they are thinking and feeling yet we don't know ourselves as well as we think.

We judge others and we end up doing what we judged as unfavourable, wrong or incorrect.

The unbalanced person does not know him or herself extensively nor deeply. This is one of the major remedies.

Unbalanced people hold ever so tightly onto points of view and mental positions. The stronger they hold on the more unbalanced they become.

To demand perfection in others while being unaware of one's own imperfections.


Extra Notes

There exists balance between the inward and outward expressions of ourselves.

Balance exists when all three brains are used.

Balance exists when there is stability.

Balance within an activity exists when the right order has been established and actions proceed from that order.

When there is pain, it is a sure sign that there is imbalance somewhere.

Love is able to subliminate and transform one balance into another.

When there is little flexibility in mind and the capacity to transform impressioins is low arriving at balance is very difficult.

An unbalanced person does injustice. The consequences that return after doing injustice are a help to find balance.

When there is imbalance, businesses, enterprises, government systems and whole countries enter into disorder, turmoil and decay.

The paradox is that the way to balance is through imbalance.

To be balanced is to NOT do the opposite of what is right in the moment.

Balance has a relative side to it. What is balance for me is not balance for you. Balance is often relative to one's level of Being.

Imbalance in us manifests as problems, disharmony, illness and suffering.

The universe is in a state of always moning towards balance/equilibrium. If there were perfect balance everything would stand perfectly still.

Our day proceeds towards balance, that is compensating to achieve balance in relation to our chosen reference point.

The reference point is our goal that what is most important to us. The reference point creates the order. That is what comes first and has higher priority is our reference point.

Balance looks diferent depending on our chosen reference point. Because priorities are different.

Order and balance are directly related. From the order/priority flows our balance.

We lose balance when we lack knowledge or our knowledge is incomplete.

Pride is our greatest inner impediment in relation to being balanced and fair.

We all have a relationship to balance and justice. We often don't like true balance or justice we tend to like only our version of balance and justice or the part that favours our interests.

If we embrace balance and justice we can eliminate many defects.

The whole of the doctrine is all about us reclaiming interior balance and justice. That is, for what is truly jujst wiothin us to reclaim its throine.

Fornication or the lack of virility is behind us losing balance. That is what is behind us adopting the order of things contrary to our yearnings and better wisdom.

Some countries are terribly imbalanced and that is why they have so many problems. A country where there are the extremes, such as extreme wealth and poverty, is where there is great injustice.

Imbalance or balanace exists in the centres of the human machine. 

Balance or imbalance starts in the intellectual centre.

What is stable is balanced. The most stable structure is the pyramid or a triangle. Balance is the apex of the triangle or pyramid. The thrid eye or the all seeing eye is placed at the apex of a triangle - meaning that balance and justice is the vision of both sides - of all that is below.

Balance and vision are intimately related. The best vison is the vision of all angles which being complete allows a balanced vision. A balanced vision is a correct vision.

One-sided thinking is not balance.

The feeling of balance is stability, peace, harmony, trust, multi-faceted vision and flexibility.

The two lines of life have to be balanced where one keeps most to the vertical and tends as necessary to the horizontal. Another way of balancing them is to approach and engage with the horizontal with the vertical.


End (5778).

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