Everyone who is parading around in their Philosopher Guru Mask in this reflection section missed the point.
The darkness is about sitting in the pain, just feeling it. Not turning it into some life lesson or the next spiritual-consumerism-business plan. It's about just being in that acidic twisting fire and knowing there is not a single thing you can do to control it. You be it. It is you. It's the most uncomfortable place in the world. It makes everyone around you absolutely uncomfortable. And it is the most real and honest place to Live.
What made this possible?
This is the root. It removes blame.
I stub my toe. First I instinctively am angry atwho ever moved the furniture (of course, my ego KNOWS it wasn't me). Then the next wave passes over, ugh! I am such klutz always walking into things, my poor toe!
Finally, no blame. What made this possible? If I am honest with myself, I wasn't being present. I apologize to my toe, the furniture, the cat who endured my curses and energy and myself.
I would love to hear an example of this in practice! Are you willing to share?
Im curious and want to understand this. You are saying to apologize for harming someone is to acknowledge your own humanity?
This article calls it what is it. Most prefer to be entertained as an audience than taking ownership as a participant in life. It's easier to buy that movie ticket and a multi-billion dollar industry exists because of it.
An author proclaiming "And the irony is that often what is keeping us from allowing that transformation in ourselves is our engaging in the activities of trying to make the world a better place" creates situational irony.
What problems are solved in this writing?
Where is the first hand experience of change this author has created?
Crickets.
The world needs less philosophers and more activated authenticity. You don't need permission to BE yourself.
Shut off the performance. Put down the mask. Quit lying to yourself and the world. This the the root of violence.
It takes tremendous courage that most don't have. So most turn to words and lectures and should'ing hoping that someone else will go first and make the world safe so that they can finally be themselves.
Choose to reject your self-created prison.
A meaningless world engenders fear because I think I am in competition with God.
-A Course in Miracles
A meaningless world engenders fear because I think I am in competition with God.
- A Course in Miracles
"The great leader never feels it is us versus them. He or she is for everybody. To be for one interest group is never to be against another. To be for those without power is surely not to be against those with power."
In a world so hyper-focused on politics, it would do us all good to apply this to ourselves collectively. Rather than should-ing on whatever nonsense we are watching in the arena and whichever person holds the leader title, if we truly belived this AND honestly walked this, the circus of hatred that current day politics thrive one could not be sustained.
"What catches my attention? No one gets caught in quite the same way."
A simple conversation among plant aficionados reveals the diversity of text in a single plant alone. Many of us are immediately drawn to the color and fragrance of a bloom, others first notice the shape and texture of the foliage, others immediately notice the expansive community of plants this particular one requires to survive. There are languages layered over languages all speaking with eachother in the natural world.
"Now it is easy for me to distinguish between what is my truth and what is not. "
Love this! Is it a feeling or a sensation? Are you open to share more?
Here's a place to start... Think of a time that someone said something to you that offended you or hurt you and you just kept quiet or shut down. Why didn't you speak up? Ask "why" to that next response and go atleast 5 "why's" deep or until you find yourself super angry and annoyed with the exercise. Your truth begins there.
"There is a fear lurking behind not telling the radical truth."
I hear this, friens. This is where we can to be radically honest with ourselves. We learn to adapt to close our boundaries to those who are the stimulus to our childhood wounds. But radical honesty is sitting with and taking ownership of that fear. Beyond admitting that we have that fear, being honest why we let that fear live inside us. Is it part of our identity? Does it keep us connected to the ones who hurt us in hopes that one day they will apologize on some physical or metaphysical level. Honesty with the self has many layers.
Being disconnected from the self is an outcome of not being radically honest with the self. Radical honesty = connection