Reacting and Wrong Reactions

Reacting and Wrong Reactions - (4709)

With the wrong reaction we fail the tests of the path.

With the mind in control of reacting we fail the tests - we give the wrong answer. From the test's point of view the wrong answer.

Always reacting is not the answer of the work either.

To react often is foolish! It may not prove to be foolish at first but later it will.

We first of all need to apply awareness onto not reacting. Just wait! Just be silent for a few moments!

Be silent, wait and straight away before the reaction blurts out, apply the key: "If foolish: like and dislike, if stupid: accept and reject, if wise: ponder carefully and chose wisely."

Wise people and awakened people don't react so quickly. They in fact act, they don't react from any "I" such as the "I" that complains, takes issue and protests, ridicules etc.

It is often that illusion that the mind thinks it knows all and so reacts from that place but the consciousness knows that there is always the unknown factor and that reality is not as the mind sees or knows it.

We also strengthen the "I's" by reacting and reacting often sets into place cause and effect which determines what happens next often in an unfavorable way.

End (4709).

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