06-25-2015, 12:00 AM
Another important aspect of awareness created in detachment is what it reveals. For example, I may feel an inkling of sad depression.
In objective detachment, I allow the space and easily question, WHY?
I will remember I was up very late last night, I had wine a couple hours ago, and I have allowed myself to indulge a petty resentment without realizing it until now.
Do you see what happens?
"Oh, that's WHY I feel as I do."
The mood usually disappears. The understanding dissipates the brunt of the sad depression.
Even if sadness remains, it has a quality of intelligent nostalgia. You will be surprised at first, that states of mind typically considered undesirable, become rich and to be enjoyed as are.
This is something of an empirical practice that becomes a habit. You need a series of such experiences, to know factually, that awareness can override all states of mind.
You don't 'have' to change what you think and feel. And, lazy as I am, I usually go with 'it'.
This has lead to having a lot of useless junk (self-reflections) going on, but really, after a while everything is weightless, and if not that, laughable. The envy, the worry, the
regret, the anger, the hatred, the positive emotions, the bodily sensations, the worldly manifestations, ALL are of simple permeating awareness.
'To be' outdoes entity perception. I become rich in aliveness beyond any one thought or thing.
A sense of shifting from one 'neurosis' or one object to another is gone. This is where joy and fun is enabled. I can be trampled by life's experience, but it is overshadowed by
my wholeness. A psychological or physical threat that is very real in 'time' has impact, but is not without the delightful energetic consolations of simple awareness.
'It' is life, I like life...... AND, I am generously thankful!
In objective detachment, I allow the space and easily question, WHY?
I will remember I was up very late last night, I had wine a couple hours ago, and I have allowed myself to indulge a petty resentment without realizing it until now.
Do you see what happens?
"Oh, that's WHY I feel as I do."
The mood usually disappears. The understanding dissipates the brunt of the sad depression.
Even if sadness remains, it has a quality of intelligent nostalgia. You will be surprised at first, that states of mind typically considered undesirable, become rich and to be enjoyed as are.
This is something of an empirical practice that becomes a habit. You need a series of such experiences, to know factually, that awareness can override all states of mind.
You don't 'have' to change what you think and feel. And, lazy as I am, I usually go with 'it'.
This has lead to having a lot of useless junk (self-reflections) going on, but really, after a while everything is weightless, and if not that, laughable. The envy, the worry, the
regret, the anger, the hatred, the positive emotions, the bodily sensations, the worldly manifestations, ALL are of simple permeating awareness.
'To be' outdoes entity perception. I become rich in aliveness beyond any one thought or thing.
A sense of shifting from one 'neurosis' or one object to another is gone. This is where joy and fun is enabled. I can be trampled by life's experience, but it is overshadowed by
my wholeness. A psychological or physical threat that is very real in 'time' has impact, but is not without the delightful energetic consolations of simple awareness.
'It' is life, I like life...... AND, I am generously thankful!