Excuses, evasions and justifications are the opposites of will power.
Evading responsibility is the biggest evasion.
The above things are for sure not will power.
The above things stop will power from devloping.
Will power is used to be and to conquer.
If we work seriously on eliminating them we will strenghten our will power.
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To be serene from the normal human society point of view is to be crazy.
To be serene, we need to be so above ourselves. So above our logic and projections of danger and discomfort...
As an internal power it is very transcendental and appears to the outside as pure crazy.
Imagine a man walkikng slowly yet firmly while array of arrows fall to the ground around him...
Maybe the next arrow will pierce his back...
The spirit of serenity is that nothing from inside of us has the power to disturb us and produce fear or anger.
To be serene we need force. That is why those who have a tonne of force are those who can be truly serene. The masters of force are serene becasue they know the great force they have and the wisdom they have to use it.
The ways of conscious force are surprisingly more aligned ot serentiy than to violence.
Things from the outside disturb us from the inside first.
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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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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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