A Viewpoint: Taking Stock Of Your Existing Connections

He also says, This is not Adolf Hitler who is speaking, this is the very spirit of history. Then she felt that electric energy coursing through her and making her more alert and energetic. Perhaps look around your office or house and jot down the objects you see. Here are two representative types of mental journeys. Move with your feeling, and by and by you will be in tune with your nature. The woman has chosen the most beautiful, but the most mountainous, dangerous path of emotions, sentiments, moods. As you brainstorm, don't expect every idea to be useful and practical. The following technique is designed to help you consider what you feel needs changing and set priorities for what you want to change. Don't say no. Repeat this exercise regularly for several days to reinforce this successful image and strengthen your feelings of self-esteem. Loneliness is a common challenge in our culture today. Sometimes anger flowers, sometimes sadness flowers, sometimes happiness, sometimes pain, sometimes anguish. For them there is no prayer, no meditation—only indulgence in the body. I don't know which kind of love you know—most probably the first kind, perhaps the second kind. You need to shore it up with various supports, including your good qualities, your desire to do something, your belief that you can do it, and your vision of doing what you want to do. Can you say something about how guilt and fear are related? Usually you will have clear answers as a result of this process. Just bring light in. If we live with the is-ness of existence and not with the oughts and the shoulds, how can hypocrisy arise? But truth is not to be found by any emotionality. Whether the joke is great or small does not matter, the psychology is the same. Because man wanted the woman to be completely imprisoned, he wrote religious scriptures making her afraid of hell, making her greedy for heaven—if she follows the rules. The mind was a barrier, so your awareness was never bridged with your body. Either you can have the kingdom or you can have the glass of water. That's why I'm writing this book. As you gaze at it, project yourself into that central point. The air is clear and warmed by the sun. You have collected all that material, which has become so powerful that now it can force you to do things: things in spite of you, things against you. That is the punishment. Watch it: the voluntary processes, the nonvoluntary process. For twenty minutes do the laughing. In that division, great energy is released. Throw the pillows away, turn on the lights, put on some beautiful music and have a dance for twenty minutes. Decorate it as attractively as possible using magic marker, drawings, and whatever else you would like. The womb was all, the child's whole universe. It is like the sun rising in the morning. So don't be afraid of effort. Pretend that you are perfect. He doesn't see that there is any possibility in the future of any change, because what more can there be? That's what meditation is all about. So the second criterion is that whatever the type to which you belong, you can move to the opposite very easily. You always have the power to change what you see if you wish to have something else happen. That is his misery. A man goes on accumulating, and then one day he explodes—wholesale! Women go mad retail—and that is a wiser way, to be finished with it every day. In fact, you will harm. In the morning the saint said, Nobody can compete with me anymore, now it is certain. I said, 'You drop that idea, because your cow might enter my farm fields and trample the crops, and that will be the end of our friendship. They tell you how successful you are or they compliment you on your great relationship. Otherwise, if you make mistakes in your mental practice, you'll make the same mistakes in the real world. Just see the facticity of it—without condemnation, without appreciation, without any judgment for or against. And don't overlook the fact that you are in the center of the circles of connection. I am not against anger, I am against accumulated anger. And when you mobilize your inner forces in this positive way that's what you will get back. But everybody is influenced by these so-called saints, who are really insane people. Getting the Chip Off Your Shoulder Just go in your room, close the door, and think of the experience of anger when you went mad. A piece of paper and a mirror? And it has been my observation that if you help them come out of one misery, the next day they will come back with something else. There is hope, and there is help. You will do the first part as practice again. The more you suffer, the more you seek salvation. You are not doing what I have been emphasizing continually; you are doing just the opposite. Poets, painters, musicians, dancers, singers have a sensitivity that they can feel beyond the body. It suggests the avenues through which you might receive more money.To begin, take the largest bill you have from your billfold. If I tell you to relax, what will you do? This is the key to open the doors for a new human being to arrive on the earth. This is what has happened out of your norms, your idealism, perfectionism, morality. So are thoughts—just a small wave passing through your mind. Now you take that away.When you feel warmed up, think about any specific situations in your life where you might want to apply this technique. You are not the walker but the watcher. There were no discussions about the body's role in what we knew as mental illness, and we were never counseled to use words like healing or wellness. The idea of harnessing the power of the body to help heal the mind was dismissed as antiscience. But both were silent. You are angry, you made the other angry, and you go on becoming angry with each other more and more. Just energy, without any name, without any adjective. Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher. You become more meditative, you watch your anger, your sex, your greed, your jealousy, your possessiveness. If you cannot accept your fear, if you cannot accept your love, if you cannot accept your sadness, how can you be relaxed? I am not telling you to become cold, I am not telling you to choose aloofness and a detached life. What can you do with a piece of paper and a chair? What to do? Thus, if you've got any worries or fears standing in the way of overcoming your feelings of tension, you've got to eliminate them. We are built for empathy, connection, and love. Later, you can create a visualization of yourself cleaning out this negativity. Then who is responsible? The same geography, the same topography, the same landscape . The body becomes so automatic, all control is lost. You can use fear for meditation. His first step in letting go was becoming aware of when he felt particularly anxious and reminding himself to release that tension. You can burn them, bury them, throw them in the river, or bomb them. If Gautam Buddha had been able to laugh, then the millions of Buddhist monks after him would not have been so sad, so dull, so without juice, so lifeless. The master tells the disciple to meditate on a koan: A small goose is put into a bottle, fed, and nourished. We divvy up tasks and specialized skills among us because we appreciate that living well is a community effort. But isn't it true that human nature, if left on its own to express itself, is precisely the problem? If their freedom is violated they fight, but the fight is individual. You repress anger, you repress sex, you repress all kinds of desires, longings—how long can you go on repressing? These include discovering and practicing new skills, overcoming fears that keep you from developing a skill, and increasing your income when you learn to perform a skill very well. If everybody else is in misery, it feels better. Just as mind says no, the heart says yes. If not, is there anything you can do to make them more consistent or interconnected?Now focus on the inner level that represents your inner self, or being, and ask yourself, What do I really want? What are you going to do? So I will say, Okay! Make a little effort, but remember that the effort is to be left behind.