08-20-2005, 12:00 AM
Whatever you give your attention to, lives. It's as simple as that.
If a person is always feeding a thought, concept or emotion with their attention eventually it becomes a perception , a flyer, a foreign installation, a reality from which we view life.
e.g.. Let's take anger. The more one gives attention to angry feelings the more life it is given, and if all of humanity is feeding the same idea with attention it takes on a life of it's own and demands energy from it subscribers. To me, this is what a demon is.
Now after we realize what is going on, what can be done about it?.
It's obvious, withdraw your attention. Ahh, if only it could be that easy. Something like anger has now taken a life of it's own, demanding attention.
An exercise I have performed is as the emotion arises within deliberately let it go, be watchful because it will arise over and over, keep on withdrawing your energy from it.
I know you can feel like you are in the fires of hell, but eventually it gets weaker and one is not so possessed with it anymore and would probably say something like, Anger used to have a hold on me but no more.
Still a big problem exists though, nearly all of humanity has given attention to anger, so I would have to say that the 'individual' has to start the process of releasing the attention.
Can you imagine if all of humanity decided at the same time to stop feeding anger with attention?
Well that's one dead demon. But that is not likely, is it. So it is up to the individual.
The word individual means can not be divided, by the way.
Lilly
If a person is always feeding a thought, concept or emotion with their attention eventually it becomes a perception , a flyer, a foreign installation, a reality from which we view life.
e.g.. Let's take anger. The more one gives attention to angry feelings the more life it is given, and if all of humanity is feeding the same idea with attention it takes on a life of it's own and demands energy from it subscribers. To me, this is what a demon is.
Now after we realize what is going on, what can be done about it?.
It's obvious, withdraw your attention. Ahh, if only it could be that easy. Something like anger has now taken a life of it's own, demanding attention.
An exercise I have performed is as the emotion arises within deliberately let it go, be watchful because it will arise over and over, keep on withdrawing your energy from it.
I know you can feel like you are in the fires of hell, but eventually it gets weaker and one is not so possessed with it anymore and would probably say something like, Anger used to have a hold on me but no more.
Still a big problem exists though, nearly all of humanity has given attention to anger, so I would have to say that the 'individual' has to start the process of releasing the attention.
Can you imagine if all of humanity decided at the same time to stop feeding anger with attention?
Well that's one dead demon. But that is not likely, is it. So it is up to the individual.
The word individual means can not be divided, by the way.
Lilly