To start with; always speak the truth, no polishing egos even if it upsets apple carts, then observe yourself as you write, then, observe yourself when there is reaction back, you will likely make lots of reaction by others, and there will be instinctive reactions in yourself, fight and flight mechanisms etc.
Always be honest how you feel, and about who you have become, always be true about what you see in others as flaws, and yourself, they will be more than honest about your flaws, this Dharma is only for the courageous
If you are not working well with this Dharma then you will be taken over by the instincts of ego, which means your reactions will be unintelligent, your reasoning faculty and higher mind will hit the floor, but if you are successful then you will not be touched by negative reaction of others, YOU WILL NOT BE TAKEN BY YOUR ANGER HATE JEALOUSY RESENTMENTS, YOUR DUAL NATURE WILL EVENTUALLY MELT AWAY, the fight and flight biological reactions will participate less thus you become more in control of your life and your health.
The more you practice the better you become.
This keeping one eye in and one eye out will over flow eventually to ordinary life, self awarness eventually will lead to blissful states this is purifying yourself to reach higher level of realiseation.
Of course there is a lot more to it than I can explain in one post, but you get the basics I guess.
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yes speaking truth in all situations is not easy without tremendously see people feeling hurt by what is been said. For example we just had to spend 2 days with people who live life in a totally different way that we do. They talk and talk to spend time with you. Moments of silence are experienced as a threat, something that need to be avoided at all costs. Listening with interest is after a few hours very difficult work especially when you know that we are used to being in silent most of the day, meaning not talking outwardly, of course mind is not silent during all day, still having to listen to each detail of a visit to a shop and I mean each detail from which shoes we on their feet, to the number of bikes parked outside the shop, to the amount of people standing in line, including what they were wearing. All the talk was about things like that. Nothing else! Very interesting to observe, but do we tell them in that moment the truth? that what they are talking about is of no importance to us? what does it say about them? Nothing really does it now. It say's something about me, that I judge this to be interesting, and not that subject. It say's something about me that I judge them to be talking about a lot of rubbish. What does it say about me, it shows me that I am totally in dual mind. So I let go the moment I become aware of not being interested in whatever they have to say. I do not speak out loud what I think or feel because that has nothing to do with the truth. If I would say that they are boring my brains out, it is not a truth, it is a jugement. If I would say, I am judging you because I think I know better things to talk about, well what I think are better things to talk about, I am totally wrong in doing so, then yes that would be the truth. Still would that help them? No it would hurt them without giving them anything, not that we can give another anything, but that is another matter. So truth you are talking about is truth from self, from inner being, not from judgemental mind, like remarks as: I like this, you do this wrong, I can do that better then you, you do not know what you are talkign about. You, you, you, instead of taking myself as an example. I have experienced this within myself, or I have come to see this. etc
ReplyDeleteSpeaking truth is also a very good way of letting go of attachments. Attachment of identity, no longer affraid to be seen as a good person only, as a pretty woman or man, a spiritual, wise, sweet, attractive,,....etc. When we speak truth focus should closely stay on self because when we come to know self we will know the other in the same moment. Truth will start flowing on its own accord.
And as someone earlier said today, Buddha had a great answer when some disiple asked: How come you answered the same question in many different ways? What is the right answer or remark in one moment is a totally wrong answer in the next to another person. That does not mean that Buddha was lying in any form or shape. Buddha knew self, realized self, and by that he knew straight away were each individual before him stood within his development within mind. So truth is nothing else then speaking from inner wisdom. Which means that many people will become a lot more quite....hahahahaha
Some people make you listen to talk about shopping, shoes, bikes, etc. as a way of stealing energy from you. You feel drained after listening to them. I don't know how to deal with people like that.
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