Some people have problems in their life that they feel would go away if their circumstance changed. Maybe it would take money, a significant other, moving, new job, etc. Maybe in a very few cases this true, but the majority will experience no benefit from the change they so sought after. The main reason that the problems still exist is because they were all a fabrication of the mind.
How often have you or someone you know taken an issue and made a mountain out of the mole hill? A problem is magnified so much that it actually becomes an issue, not because of the problem, but because of the person. It has been helpful being married to a therapist, not that she will be my therapist, instead she slows me down to the point that I can see the problem for what it really is… nothing.
Over the course of the last 6 months or so that I have been searching for the truth to life, I realize my problems aren’t so much problems at all. They are just the flow of life. I can see them as an obstacle or just as what is. It is my reaction that makes the issue a problem. If a person listens to the radio, goes shopping, or watches TV, they will often forget about the problem for a while. It is a choice. Once realized that the problem no longer controls a person they are free to think without a clouded mind and better able to move forward. One can really live a life of no problems, sure you’ll be inconvenienced on occasion, but do not consider it a problem. Instead look at what it really is, take care of it and move on.
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Now that comment is a shock.
Completely beyond understanding.
Mr. Methodic: your blog is one of my favourites.
I hope you will not be discouraged.
As for the post: I know it only too well. One can turn any bad event into at least a partially good one.
I have seen some very horrible events, lately.
But thankfully, my emotions have not been wound up by them.
And that is the key.
I love the forest, but I prefer my mind to be a flat and featureless plain.
Thank you for your blog.
Two people look at the same color, one says that it is red the other says grey. Both are correct regardless how long they argue the others ignorance.
I know what the colour is.
I have no need to convince or persuade anyone else what colour it is.
Argument does not change what the colour is.
Neither does agreement on what the colour is.
It may be red, but it will remain red whether it is seen as grey, or not.
Is that the way you see it?
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This thread is of interest to me :)
Sure, the color remains red no matter what. Now imagine if your color blind. The color is grey no matter what.
Consciousness is similar.
Not possessing it, one can not know what it is.
There is no bridge between knowing and not-knowing, other than goodwill.
Lacking goodwill, chaos results.
With familiar results.
I've been known to make mountains out of molehills. Sometimes this is not good. Sometimes it is. I've also been known to make molehills out of mountains. Sometimes this good. Sometimes it isn't.
Mountains, molehills. Molehills, mountains. There are no hard and fast rules.
Ha, ha . . I love this post Mr. Methodic, and the conversations that have followed.
The Crow always makes great comments as does that rambling Taoist . . I've also been known to make mountains out a flat piece of land, and I've been told I couldn't tell black from white, especially on a damp gray day . . .
. . . however . . .
All problems are of the conditioned mind and personality; they are ego based/created. Speaking from direct experience, as is my way, when I reached a point of perfect equilibrium between all pairs of opposites within my psyche there was an ontological jump in the level of being. The result? I descended vertically within into the depths of Be-ing/Tao and transcended the problematic/unhappy thinking mind. No more problems and therefore no unhappiness!
So, persist my friend, keep bringing your attention into the moment, which is always this moment here and now . . :-)
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