what are the ways in which we avoid catalyst?

[sillypumpkins]

Thanks for the responses peregrine and flo!

The "noisy neighbor" example is a bit more of a light-hearted scenario than what I've actually been experiencing in regards to catalyst.....

I mean, wholly independent of the external catalyst.

Okay, so, that sort of gets to part of what I am attempting to understand. Would "trigger" be more amply replaced by "external catalyst"? So far, I have been viewing catalyst solely as the "thing" you feel internally, though it seems that the catalyst exists externally and internally, informing one another.

Perhaps I am looking at it a bit narrowly! Or I am thinking about it too much

I remember reading Ra mention that catalyst is anything experienced by the senses. So.... everything is a catalyst? And we sort of just pick and choose what catalyst we want to experience?

Silly, o don’t know if this will help, but back quite a few years ago when I had major anger against one in particular, I did realize that a lot of it was directed at myself for having entered in a relationship with that person, and not entered it well either, so I had to definitely forgive myself too ... lol

Not sure I am clear enough in stating this.. but that was an important insight for me

Right you are flo It always comes back to YOU (as in, the individual) !! it seems that way at least lol