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What happens to me sometimes, is I wake up with an impression in my head, without knowing what I dreamed. I only get the words, but they are quite clear and their impression stays with me for a while after I had woken up.

It's usually a clue of sorts, relating to my current life situation or thought processes.

So in December for two consecutive mornings I woke up with the words "everything is relative". Now we all know what this means, but I felt it was important to me somehow so I contemplated it much, and read some things that will improve my understanding of it. Of course in spiritual practice here in 3rd density, where we have to make a choice, we are quite aware of what is considered characteristics of the positive and negative polarities.

But how often do we encounter behaviour of the negative polarity, and feel aversion or fear? How often do we judge an event as good or bad, with the resulting emotions?

So as time went on, I started practising to reserve the strong good/bad judgement which happens involuntary in these situations, and I also practise detachment (which Buddhism is quite renowned for). Fear is quite a paralysing emotion, and when you are the target of negativity, it is certainly not easy to stay detached.

So I started meditating on the opposites, as Ra also advised, and I have to say that I definitely feel calmer and more at peace as a result of this.

So let me share two things I found while I was constantly focusing my mind on this relativity thing, and trying to improve my reaction to things I perceived as "evil".

Quote:It needs remembering that the evils and pains of life have only a passing existence and are relative to the good and joys of life. Their own existence is in the end controlled by the divine laws and used for the divinely based universal outworking. Such complementaries and relativities follow by necessity as soon as this outworking itself begins afresh with every renewed cosmic period. How could any universe come into existence without both good and evil, light and darkness, joy and sorrow, coming with it?

Such duality is the inescapable and tragic side of its manifestation. The existence of one opposite is a necessary consequence of the existence of the other. Those who ask for a painless world do not comprehend that they are also asking for a joyless one. The ebb and flow between opposites of joy and anguish, possession and loss, gives man a sense of values which he could not gain to such a vivid degree any other way.

Experience of one kind provides a needed balance for the experience of its contrary. This helps him form a just estimate of bodily life and earthly values, a truer perception of its transiency, and thus brings him closer to the consciousness of the spiritual life.

- Paul Brunton

And this simple little story reminds me to stay calm and relaxed when "bad things" happen:

Quote:The Farmer's Son

The Farmer's Son

One day in late summer, an old farmer was working in his field with his old sick horse. The farmer felt compassion for the horse and desired to lift its burden. So he left his horse loose to go the mountains and live out the rest of its life.

Soon after, neighbors from the nearby village visited, offering their condolences and said, "What a shame. Now your only horse is gone. How unfortunate you are! You must be very sad. How will you live, work the land, and prosper?" The farmer replied: "Who knows? We shall see".

Two days later the old horse came back now rejuvenated after meandering in the mountainsides while eating the wild grasses. He came back with twelve new younger and healthy horses which followed the old horse into the corral.

Word got out in the village of the old farmer's good fortune and it wasn't long before people stopped by to congratulate the farmer on his good luck. "How fortunate you are!" they exclaimed. You must be very happy!" Again, the farmer softly said, "Who knows? We shall see."

At daybreak on the next morning, the farmer's only son set off to attempt to train the new wild horses, but the farmer's son was thrown to the ground and broke his leg. One by one villagers arrived during the day to bemoan the farmer's latest misfortune. "Oh, what a tragedy! Your son won't be able to help you farm with a broken leg. You'll have to do all the work yourself! How will you survive? You must be very sad", they said. Calmly going about his usual business the farmer answered, "Who knows? We shall see."

Several days later a war broke out. The Emperor's men arrived in the village demanding that young men come with them to be conscripted into the Emperor's army. As it happened the farmer's son was deemed unfit because of his broken leg. "What very good fortune you have!" the villagers exclaimed as their own young sons were marched away. "You must be very happy." "Who knows? We shall see!", replied the old farmer as he headed off to work his field alone.

As time went on the broken leg healed but the son was left with a slight limp. Again the neighbors came to pay their condolences. "Oh what bad luck. Too bad for you!" But the old farmer simply replied; "Who knows? We shall see."

As it turned out the other young village boys had died in the war and the old farmer and his son were the only able bodied men capable of working the village lands. The old farmer became wealthy and was very generous to the villagers. They said: "Oh how fortunate we are, you must be very happy", to which the old farmer replied, "Who knows? We shall see!"


Commentary: What More Can Be Said?

Every event is part of a larger whole. The meaning and nature of any event, what is judged to be "good" or "bad," is only relative to the changing circumstances and conditions surrounding it. How often do we take into consideration the "Whole" picture?

Fundamentally, people become stuck or stagnant by closing down their hearts, their neural circuits – ceasing to listen to their deepest creative evolutionary potential for guidance. Often people learn to resist change by utilizing the intellect, will power, and ego, trying to control, suppress/repress, and manipulate, and their innate evolutionary potential remains superficial and dull. Man 's confused  mind thus creates a prison, inner war, tension, and conflict which impedes, confines, and restricts his greater expression.

Rather human beings change and evolve by emptying the mind and opening the heart – activating dormant neural evolutionary circuits, not closing them down or restricting them. It can be said that we change our hearts by emptying our heads. That opens the heart. When the heart leads, that takes into consideration a greater *REALITY* than mere conceptual reality which is also much more intelligent and functional (that is, when it is consulted) than the intellectual mental function.

This classic story of the farmer's son is not one of passivity, but rather about how to be free from (unattached to) the limited results of logical efforts – conditional happiness (raga/sukha) and unhappiness (dvesa/duhkha)  stemming from ignorance (avidya) which is obstructed vision seeing the small picture devoid of primary causes. Whatever bothers us the most are the things we have to let go of – they are reflections of an inner conflict. All of our problems — even our health problems—are related to disturbances of our emotions.

We create our problems and diseases in the mind through mental reactive judgements, intellectually based evaluation processes, and conclusions and then jump into those limited reference frames as ersatz "reality", It is not that suffering or unhappiness is an illusion, but rather they are based on a false notion. False notions exist and must be recognized as such in order for us to liberate them.

In the everyday scheme of things, we organize and plan our life on strategies centered upon secondary causes and events, but how often do we take into consideration the larger picture and causative trends (past and future). Such is not accessible to ordinary intellectual methodology

When it comes to emotional situations, we try to create ideal situations, but how often do we know the cause of happiness and unhappiness which are after all mental states, without knowing our mind? The normal discursive mind is constantly chattering, maneuvering, craving, thinking and planning while trying desperately to obtain what we want/like or escape/avoid what we do not like. But no matter what we do, we can't control our future that way, because there are too many factors. There is no point in being so overly invested in planning a future that we can't control without taking into consideration the whole situation (and that includes primary causes)..

We do what we have to do to live our everyday lives, but we should not be attached to the outcome, or spend so much time and emotion on controlling a future that can't be controlled. Do your best, and leave the rest to the multiverse – consult with it as often as you can, rather than the intellect or Cartesian brain (frontal cortex).  Wise men and women are not attached to results, but rather live beyond time in the eternal present. That is here they move from, abide, and live. Whether the result of our actions is negative or positive, we should not be attached to it. We have to let it go and move on. The essential point is to strive to be empty and to let all things go—let the contents of the mind go -- both good and bad—and let the light that illumines the mind flow through us and guide our way. Then we can treat each moment, each situation, as a new beginning. Then, we will be "seeing", hearing, sensing, and feeling from a deeper more open space -- with and from our hearts, so to speak.

The best that we can do, is to do our very best to act from that vast space of great happiness and spread/reflect that as best we can. Always do your best in loving happiness! That feels best!

May the very Best Fortune be Yours! May All Beings Be Happy and Know the Cause of that Happiness!

All that you can see and experience is yourself, so really all there is to perceive is the realitivity of what you are.

Firstly Minyatur, you have 1111 likes! I'm one of those people who see 11:11 or just ones everywhere, everyday, since 2010! So I'm not going to like your post, and leave the ones!

(03-29-2016, 08:38 AM)Minyatur Wrote: [ -> ]All that you can see and experience is yourself, so really all there is to perceive is the realitivity of what you are.

So true, I always remind myself of this:

Quote:Questioner: Is there a reason that I am open to these signals of a negative nature?

Ra: I am Ra. Are you not all things?

I think when we start intellectually contemplating that we are all things, what usually follows is what some call "shadow work", and I think its the most difficult spiritual work I have attempted, where you would for example when you are betrayed by someone, think back on a time in your own life when you were the betrayer... it definitely helps you to see that you are all things, even though it's unpleasant!

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(03-29-2016, 12:04 PM)GentleWanderer Wrote: [ -> ]It comes back to seeking love in every moment. I wonder if buddhist "detachement" is the same as Ra "acceptance".

That sounds reasonable.  With full 'acceptance', the amount of emotional charge associated with an event or situation becomes non-measurable.  One can then take the most loving action possible, with a clear mind, and not seeing any possible separation.

That kind of 'relationship' could be classified as 'detachment' or 'true objectivity'.

It may have a more specific reference in Buddhist terms, which I'm sure you'll expand upon, if I've missed the mark.

The thing is, 'acceptance' or 'detachment' is not something you can 'do'.  It's the end result or final state of the processing of the emotional charge associated with personally impinging events - "someone taking something personally'.

So trying to force acceptance without doing the actual inner work is kinda pointless and non-productive.  It's like trying to love something without understanding why you, deep inside, truly loathe it.  The issue is not the lack of love, the issue is the rejection of the thing as it currently is represented to you, via the inner relationships you have to that thing/concept.  Love/acceptance happens automatically once you balance the reasons for the rejection.

GentleWanderer Wrote:It comes back to seeking love in every moment. I wonder if buddhist "detachement" is the same as Ra "acceptance".

This is interesting, I haven't actually thought of it this way, but I think you are right.

GentleWanderer Wrote:The thing is, 'acceptance' or 'detachment' is not something you can 'do'.  It's the end result or final state of the processing of the emotional charge associated with personally impinging events - "someone taking something personally'.

So trying to force acceptance without doing the actual inner work is kinda pointless and non-productive.

I agree, in my opinion it's the result of much balancing. I find that trying to understand someones behaviour, to dig a little deeper, helps with acceptance.

Quote:Questioner: I will attempt to make an analogy. If an animal, shall I say a bull in a pen, attacks you because you have wandered into his pen, you get out of his way rapidly but you do not blame him. Or, you do not have much of an emotional response other than the fear response that he might damage you. However, if you encounter another self in his territory and he attacks you, your response may be more of an emotional nature creating physical bodily responses. Am I correct in assuming that when your response to the animal and to the other-self seeing both as the Creator and loving both and understanding their action in attacking you is the action of their free will then you have balanced yourself correctly in this area? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is basically correct. However, the balanced entity will see in the seeming attack of an other-self the causes of this action which are, in most cases, of a more complex nature than the cause of the attack of the second-density bull as was your example. Thus this balanced entity would be open to many more opportunities for service to a third-density other-self.