Category Archives: Observation

Thoughts on observing my self or the surroundings

Love for Self

I am a very judgmental person, and so when I walk along the street I see this threatening looking guy with a pitbull dog and I think… or I walk behind a very over weight girl that looks like she couldn’t find her jeans and grabbed her little sisters because she was in a hurry, and I think… or I talk to a guy in the store that clearly has no education and don’t know what he’s on about and I think… constantly these thoughts coming up when I see people. But at this stage I know that these are not my thoughts. They are clouds that come and go. I did not make an effort to arrive at them or make a logical deduction. They are simple thoughts like: “is this green or turquoise? Good or bad? Beautiful or ugly?” So, I instead of trying to stop them which I can’t or being hard on myself, I apologize. To myself. I say; “I am so sorry about these horrible thoughts that you have to bear, such rubbish. I know it is so hard to have them go through you. Whoever sends them, please be tolerant with them. Please forgive them for this ungraciousness.”

And then the magic. I suddenly feel a love replace these thoughts. Because there is recognition of the suffering I am enduring. A warmth flow through me. I taste it and realise it is a love. And when all these people see this love in my eyes, and don’t react like they usually do. And I realise that the harsh thoughts are on me and not them. I do not allow them to be them, because I am so hard on myself. If I must do all the hard stuff then so should they. So, loving my self is also to forgive myself. You are a good person through and through and you deserve love. Love directed at yourself. I am one with them. There is not separation. Feeling love for me is feeling love for them.

And now when I see someone unaware they have ice-cream on their chin I skip the middle and go straight to the warmness in my chest. And there is quite in my mind.

And this reversal is to be found several other places in the mind, that ends with love of self. Focus is on the external world when it is really in yourself the white stone is hidden.

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The fabric of persona

A psychotherapist once said to me that the human fabric was very tough. That it took so much to change a behavior. Even if the person he was trying to help wished for it ever so much.

In Buddhist circles, there is often talk about how much work one has to do before reaching enlightenment, or awakening. A few teaches ventures to say that there is no work involved at all, that you can become wise in a brief moment. What are you waiting for?

There is a reluctance to change. And so there is.

This reluctance is preventing you from change. It is a firmness that you think makes you the person you are. A fear that if you let go and change some ideas that you would unravel, become unattractive, lose your job, lose friends and so on.

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Depression is a function – not a sickness

Depression is a function, not a sickness.

It is a mechanism to drive you home. It is like hunger – it is manifested in the physical. It’s not just an idea or thought. It’s more than that.

Look back to the time of cavemen. What is preventing them from riding of into the sunset and never returning? Depression is a severe form of home sickness.

But in modern society home has been redefined. And you can get the feeling of not being home even though you are at home.

To get rid of the depression you must find a way home in your head.

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Look not into the past

You will find no answers to your ailment in the past.

Only in the now can you see what ails you. It almost always has to do with experiences in the past. But only by looking at the now, at the result can you understand or find peace or compassion.
The suffering has often permuted many times, so if you look from the past you will never see the relation. Only looking from the now can you see the resulting form. Only seeing the form clearly do you know what must be done.

You are walking down the street and you see a man under a street lamp looking for something. So you offer to help him look. After a while still not having found the item you ask him where exactly he lost it. And he says that he lost it in the street one block over. You are flabbergasted at this, and ask why you are look here when he has lost the item in another street. He answers; “well this was the only place that had a street lamp so you could see anything”.

It is like that looking into the past. You got it the wrong way round. You must look deeply into the heart instead.

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Emotions

If you look really hard you’ll see there is only two emotions. Fear and Joy.

 

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All Growth is cancerous

All growth – no exceptions –  is cancerous until something arises that keeps it in check. Growth has no inherent self control. This is the natur of growth. It is because of the lack in control that it grows.

It is always some other existence keeping it in check. This creates diversity. Everything in the universe obeys this fact. Thus it is the law of diversity.

Our ego-construct as well. Unchecked it creates decease. Higher self is the diversity.

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The price

If I told you that I could make you truly happy. So happy that you would feel like bursting. And not just today, but for the rest of your life.

I would  make your life utter bliss. How much would you be willing to pay?

I mean really. People pay gladly to have their breast made bigger. But happiness for the rest of your life?

OK, now you have decided on a figure. And you are not a cheap person, so it was probably a large number.

That “figure” is what you are now paying for not being happy, living the material life of the west.

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Is that the answer?

Every answer you get that has a voice is an ego-answer. There must be absolutely quite in your head if you want to hear your inner “voice”, your being.

Every break through I have ever made came to me without a voice. I could see the answer. The words came later.

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Panic Attacks

Panic arise when you are afraid of being anxious. It is a race-condition.

The biggest weakness of all is the fear of appearing weak.

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No-mind epiphanies

Every breakthrough of any significance I have made came to me in a flash. There was no logical trail of thought. No words in my head. Mostly I was just starring into the void absent minded. I think I was letting go of my ego so my being could just take over my body. And then I could see it clear. Suddenly. See it. Not hear it or think it. See it.

Words only came later when i was trying to see how to remember that, or convey it to others.

Osho explains it like this.

And then the explosion. In a moment, everything was transformed. The question had dropped.
The answer had come from some unknown dimension. Truth is attained through a sudden explosion, not gradually.
It cannot be compelled to appear. It comes.

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