Guest guest Posted March 9, 2005 Report Share Posted March 9, 2005 This is such a good sadhana topic! When dealing with so called other people's stuff, it takes real humility to realize: Its all "Our stuff", not really other peoples stuff. ALL of it. If anything is disturbing our peace...it is our stuff. Boy, does marriage pound this lesson home!!!! We are the perpetrators of our own suffering. If we have the thought, for example: my mother needs to stop drinking alcohol, this really upsets me, ....the way to get at this would be ...is it really absolutely true that my mother needs to stop drinking? After all is that really my business what another does or doesn't do? How would I behave around my mother without the thought that my mother needs to stop drinking ? Usually the root of our "upset" is our own uninvestigated belief or story about others around us, which in the end is our own story about ourselves!. In essence we are not allowing the reality around us to be just as it is. In other words, the essence of our upset is our own judgement of how we think things "should be". Acceptance of things as they are with gentle detachment and love brings a quiet joy, the feeling like life is a really great movie that we have the grace to watch, but it is a very subtle practice. It Takes ALOT of shradda (spelling?). This doesn't mean that you don't participate or do seva. It means that you don't bring your judgement and storyline into your helping. Jai MA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 In a message dated 3/9/05 11:46:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, ckeniley2003 writes: << In other words, the essence of our upset is our own judgement of how we think things "should be". Acceptance of things as they are with gentle detachment and love brings a quiet joy, the feeling like life is a really great movie that we have the grace to watch, but it is a very subtle practice. It Takes ALOT of shradda (spelling?). >> gentle detachment, quiet joy. Is that how you see the path of divine compassion? That being upset is a sign of "stuff" and judgement?????? that doesnt sound like deep love and compassion. It sounds like a place people have judged to be deep love, peace and compassion. Just another judgement of what is or is not spiritual. In Loves Service malati Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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