Topic: how we react

[nichi]

"Stop being surprised and complaining about people's behavior. Once and for all, come to realize that they are capable of the best and unfortunately also the worst, and decide not to worry about their errors and faults any longer because they stir up too many negative reactions in you. There is a relation between the things with which you concern yourself and the state in which you subsequently feel. If you allow yourself to be so sensitive to the bad things other people do, you will be overwhelmed by feelings of hostility: anger, indignation and so on. Be aware that it is not your feelings that will change anything about people's actions. On the other hand, these feelings will have a completely detrimental effect on your inner self and one day these negative feelings you will have fostered will come to be reflected in your face. This is not an intelligent way to live. An intelligent person does not allow their inner state to be determined by the behavior of others."


            Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

[Jennifer-]

Excellent find Vicki!

[Jahn]

Yes but that is mental body telling what emotional body shall do. Best is to not get upset in the first place.

That is the way of the feather. Light in the heart and sober in the mind.

[Zamurito]

You know, as we need to work in the Now and not becoming Attached, we also perceive in our own special way.

We are used to perceiving in a certain way. I know this, because we are all like this. We each have an established view of ‘me’ and of what I am attempting to convey. And this is different for everyone.

What I say is filtered through that specific view, or perspective, for each of us. As this occurs, we filter out what we think is unnecessary or unwanted or unimportant or objectionable. Anything that does not fit in to what we think we already know is simply not received. It is dumped; rejected.

Instead, be completely conscious of what is being said when we are listening, or perceiving. This means to be like pure attention. It has to all go in, with no screens between us. And in the same way we have to be aware of what is occurring.

We must be one big awareness. So there is no screen with which we color your perceptions; govern our actions. Because that screen is made of our habituation.

It is made of our conditioned mind. And when we take away or dissolve the screen between the self and other, when we cease judging the act of perception, then the listener and the speaker disappear. At the same time that we drop our screening process, then we are also dropping the self and other categories, because all of this is one thing; one phenomenon. And we can never act or do freely or purely through a habituated mind. In that case there is no action at all; only reaction.

When we truly see this for the first time, we feel tremendous remorse and regret for having used people in the way that we have in the past. Because if I am seeing you through this screen, then I am not really seeing you at all, but I am seeing a projection of you.

We can say it another way; I am only taking that part of you that I can accept, and the rest I reject. This is a violent action, a violent act, a horrible discrediting of our fellow human being. And it is a violation of the purpose and meaning of our being here in this life, which is, after all, only to learn to be conscious and recognize the great Source that works through everyone, and in fact is everyone.

z

[Jennifer-]

You know, as we need to work in the Now and not becoming Attached, we also perceive in our own special way.

We are used to perceiving in a certain way. I know this, because we are all like this. We each have an established view of ‘me’ and of what I am attempting to convey. And this is different for everyone.

What I say is filtered through that specific view, or perspective, for each of us. As this occurs, we filter out what we think is unnecessary or unwanted or unimportant or objectionable. Anything that does not fit in to what we think we already know is simply not received. It is dumped; rejected.

Instead, be completely conscious of what is being said when we are listening, or perceiving. This means to be like pure attention. It has to all go in, with no screens between us. And in the same way we have to be aware of what is occurring.

We must be one big awareness. So there is no screen with which we color your perceptions; govern our actions. Because that screen is made of our habituation.

It is made of our conditioned mind. And when we take away or dissolve the screen between the self and other, when we cease judging the act of perception, then the listener and the speaker disappear. At the same time that we drop our screening process, then we are also dropping the self and other categories, because all of this is one thing; one phenomenon. And we can never act or do freely or purely through a habituated mind. In that case there is no action at all; only reaction.

When we truly see this for the first time, we feel tremendous remorse and regret for having used people in the way that we have in the past. Because if I am seeing you through this screen, then I am not really seeing you at all, but I am seeing a projection of you.

We can say it another way; I am only taking that part of you that I can accept, and the rest I reject. This is a violent action, a violent act, a horrible discrediting of our fellow human being. And it is a violation of the purpose and meaning of our being here in this life, which is, after all, only to learn to be conscious and recognize the great Source that works through everyone, and in fact is everyone.

z

Excellent post Zam