(02-14-2017, 06:25 AM)Sylvestre Wrote: [ -> ] (02-14-2017, 02:23 AM)APeacefulWarrior Wrote: [ -> ]I mean, haven't most of us known "that person" who is incredibly sweet and giving and WANTS to help others, but is kind of inept -often making things worse rather than better- and seemingly unable to learn from their mistakes? That's the kind of blind spot I'm talking about. They're so focused on others they become unwilling or unable to focus on themselves. I suspect a lot of 4Ds are in that same boat.
Yes exactly ! I 'tend' to hate this kind of people because although they are very loving and compassionate, they always try to be positive and end up ignoring problems completely and they can never make useful comments that would help people change in a good way. They're just so positive about everything that they just stay right were there are and make no constructive changes, at least that's what it feels like.
Dear sylvestre,
I would like to share my perspective with you.
The above example, if i understand this right, shows people that are APPARENTLY loving, compassionate and helpful.
But this is often farfrom the truth.
I refer to those "kind" people that will bombard you with their "helpful" tips and their "postitivity" when you'rereally down.
More oftenthan not, this would indicate an extreme dissociation and denial on their side.
On a deeper level they resonate with you, since they have the same emotions and unhealed parts in them.
They would however completely deny this and suppress it to the extreme.
They even try to make you supress these emotions and try to not allow them to arise in you, inorderto avoid resonance with it.
This might look loving and compassionate on the surface, but would actually be a violent act of agression.
They would not serve you butthemselves...on your extent.
I think itsreally crucial to know oneself. This is prerequisite for polarizing positively in my opinion.
You ask about "what should i focus on?"
I would answer "focus on whatever arises in thepresent moment"
Allow it to be.
How would you comfort a child that has been hurt?
Would you say, all is well, it doesnthurt anymore, life goes on?
This would cause the child either seperate from itself from from you. It would be alone in its suffering.
You could provide that space necessary for the child to feel understood, to not fell alone in its suffering.
You could be there with all your love and compassion and allow the child to be just as it is in that very moment.
And there would be the beauty, the love.
Its not on the surface, there is non-beauty, non-love quite often.
But there is beauty in the soul that makes this experience.
There is beauty in the fact that you sit there, umdefended, vulnerable to the resonance of the childs pain in you, but staying there, holding its hand and comforting this little being.
Thats where the beauty lies, where the love is.
The beautiful soul in the child, becoming the creator, the beautiful soul in you, becoming the creator.
The beauty, the love, they are not on the surface more often than not, they are in the souls ,trying to become the creator, that share a mutual experience, be it pleasant or utterly painful.
I have been raped at an extremely young age.
There was no beauty in that situation, there was only horror, pain, suffering.
But after many years of "working" on that "issue" i came to a sudden realization in a meditation.
I could see the light in the person who did this. And i could then see my light again.
I could see that i have not been destroyed, that my light was still whole and un-hurt.
I could see this person didnt act on its inner truth. I was feeling the pain that it caused.
But there was suddenly a light in all of us. There was love, not on the level it happened, but on the deepest level, on the soul level, where we all are love and light. And there was a sacredness to our path i never felt before.
I know im not yet able to sustain this experience.
But this short glimpse showed me the deeper truth.
I know i didnt answer your question directly. But my hope is these examples help to get a "bigger picture".