Why is there so much unhappiness in the world? The short
answer – because you and I put it there. The world we see and hear
and smell and touch is our world – our creation. “Wrong!” you
cry. “It was here before I was born; I grew up in it!” Hmm. I
wonder about that. “It was here before I was born” is an assumption, an
assumption that's worth exploring, but on another day. For today's
purposes it doesn't matter whether or not our world was here before
we became aware of it. What matters for today is that if we don't
like our world, we don't have to stay in it. We can swim out of this
unhappy backwater into clearer streams that are going somewhere.
All Unhappiness is caused by a thought with a feeling
attached to it. The feeling wallops itself and the parent thought in two directions --
home into your cellular memory and out into the world's soup of
social consciousness. Whatever we pick up from our environment, we
amplify it, carry it and add it back where we got it from. We give it life. In this sense, the thoughts and
feelings we hook into are using us to survive themselves. They're parasites!
It's little wonder to me that we so readily pick up on ways and
means to be unhappy. We're literally drowning in them. Unhappiness
and dissatisfaction seem to be the international currency of
bartering and negotiating for what we want, and think we can't get
unless we can manipulate someone or something else to give it to us. You can blame
your ego for that.
Well, how is unhappiness working as your means to get
happy? Not well, huh? Sounds like an exercise in futility. Sounds like it's time for another way.... Take
heart from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. “Man's mind, stretched to
a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.” So
here we go...
Firstly, it's absolutely counter-productive to turn your
back on what and where you are right now. You don't have to like what you've become, but its a lot easier if you can relax that far. It's far better to
celebrate everything you've done so far, good and bad. Every bit of
whatever you have lived up to this point has been essential to get
you to this point of change. OK? Nothing has been wasted.
It's counter-productive to resist. “Sailor”
Bob Adamson writes: No matter how hard and long you try, you
cannot negate yourself. I can attest to that; I've tried it. I
adopted beliefs like “I'm not good enough”, and “I'm guilty”,
and “I'm an embarrassment” (amongst heaps of others) – 70-odd
years of solid, energetic negating myself, and yet one constant stayed true – “I am” – still. How could I have missed that
for so long? “I am”.
How about you? With what self-beliefs and ideas have you
tried to limit or write yourself off with. Good. Now, have they successfully negated you, or
are you still here and is it still now? Of course you are. So
negating yourself is futile. Splitting and separating yourself is
futile. Conflicting is futile. Because that which you are remains
untouched, eternal and empty/full.
Am-ness, Here, and Now....... The Holy Trinity.
Sailor Bob continues - The thought “I am” is not
what you are, but it is the closest you will get to what you are with
the mind. I call this bit of mind my Aware Ego. My Aware Ego is
where I write and broadcast from, because I need my ego-mind to
communicate with you. “I Am” is close. But not It. That's why I
say you will never get to what you are with the Mind. And I cannot
take you there. The closest I can get is where we are now, and I can
point you to it. Crossing the threshold between Aware Ego and pure
Awareness is up to you. Keep saying to yourself, "What is it that is aware of this?", and click to that space where words fail.....
So, given that Mind is not going to get us there, how do we bale out of Mind?
Figuring out how to get out of the mind is just more mind stuff. The
only way out of the Mind is a full stop. The searching is pointless.
Stop. Stop everything. Stop and just be with that sense of Am-ness that remains. Now that you've stopped, are
you still here, are you still now, are you still present, and are you
still aware? Good! Go to and merge with that aware presence. Then
turn and see how the world looks and feels from there.
This
has been another Postcard From Out Here. I'm Barrie Barkla.
[Stop
This World – Diana Krall – 3:59]
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