Author Topic: Practical  (Read 1090 times)

Michiel

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Re: Practical
« on: September 25, 2017, 12:02:19 pm »
Thanks for the tip Jed.

I'll be honest, I'm skipping on the search for T/R at the moment. First and foremost nothing is to be had there, but rather I will focus on making my life comfortable, both Now, but also in progression to the future. Money is apparently a thing here on Earth.

Maybe I don't skip the subject entirely, but I've got a new perspective on the subject.
I wonder if you ever heard of the Dutch writer Jan Geurtz? He wrote a book called "Addicted to Love". The subject is Love, but basically it goes without saying that it can be applied to any subject that the mind gets addicted to.

He explains there are certain workings in the mind which take the mind away from its original state which according to him is "Being... honest, powerful, soft, smart, spontaneous, good/loving, social/altruistic, unique/creative".

When the mind starts rejecting itself it will start becoming (or thinking about itself): "I am... corrupt/dishonest, weak, stupid, weird, evil/guilty, anti-social/egotistic, mediocre."

Even further perverted, it will start rejecting those thoughts, because it doesn't like thinking bad about itself, so it becomes: "formal/rigid, cool, invulnerable/distant/self-assured, know-it-all/or anti-intellectual/free-person, everything under control, always kind/afraid to hurt others/"nice guy", subservient/forcibly social/helpaholic, wanting to stand out/always disagreeing with others.

It becomes more complicated after that until the person fabricated a more or less succesful "image", it seems stable and operating, until of course something happens, change happens, and than the image doesn't work, but shows the suffering from keeping on either attaching to a certain thought about self, or dissociating from certain aspects of the self. The mind keeps approving or rejecting certain characteristics of the self and other people. But more or less underneath this gigantic facade there lies the real Self of Being what it really is.

It seems sensible. Thinking certain things about myself or others seems so painful. Yet when I keep things simple by being honest and soft, there isn't any pain. Just giving up the trying to be something, to create an image of success I need to hold on to.

Love, Michiel