07-14-2015, 12:01 AM
Well, for starters you get an "A" for reporting back in your Daffy Duck style. Ironing out aspects of one's personality to meet some norm should be discarded-- as you are so inclined anyway.
I want you to SEE if detachments you perform are of a purely rational nature (of reason, and not invested with emotion). As you become more proficient your detachment will coincide with everything life, and ultimately prevail even as feelings are manifest. Then too, you should enjoy the feelings of detachments well executed. We are not out to kill emotions.
When I am presented with unlimited julio facepalm opportunities, I learn to choose the predominant ones. I make sure of a conscious connection that I don't try and detach from every problematic sentiment, but that I know they get lumped together. One primary feeling can represent and subsume all others so long as I make the connection with good awareness. Like algebra, I assign formulative value. Do I really care if in learning advanced separation that it has to do with this or that feeling?
While it helped to be specific as a beginner, it helped more later on when I identified with the procedural feel of detachment in progress. Else all I would do is endlessly obsess. I must 'soberly' SEE the detachment practice itself with enough levity, wherefore it bears no weight. I am literally become game to do it.
Find balance. Detachment is work, but it is also PLAY. I do not get hooked on detachment having ultimate purpose other than the active qualatitive state and lightness it engenders now. In detachment, 'reason billy' takes notice of 'ego billy' and laughs. 'Ego billy stops' in his tracks and laughs.
If gaining said separation from seriousness cannot happen, go into some other line of work.
I want you to SEE if detachments you perform are of a purely rational nature (of reason, and not invested with emotion). As you become more proficient your detachment will coincide with everything life, and ultimately prevail even as feelings are manifest. Then too, you should enjoy the feelings of detachments well executed. We are not out to kill emotions.
When I am presented with unlimited julio facepalm opportunities, I learn to choose the predominant ones. I make sure of a conscious connection that I don't try and detach from every problematic sentiment, but that I know they get lumped together. One primary feeling can represent and subsume all others so long as I make the connection with good awareness. Like algebra, I assign formulative value. Do I really care if in learning advanced separation that it has to do with this or that feeling?
While it helped to be specific as a beginner, it helped more later on when I identified with the procedural feel of detachment in progress. Else all I would do is endlessly obsess. I must 'soberly' SEE the detachment practice itself with enough levity, wherefore it bears no weight. I am literally become game to do it.
Find balance. Detachment is work, but it is also PLAY. I do not get hooked on detachment having ultimate purpose other than the active qualatitive state and lightness it engenders now. In detachment, 'reason billy' takes notice of 'ego billy' and laughs. 'Ego billy stops' in his tracks and laughs.
If gaining said separation from seriousness cannot happen, go into some other line of work.