Guest guest Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Other beliefs that I questioned: - I should be happy. - I should be free. - I should be content. - I should be loving. - I should be joyous. - I shouldn't be stressed. - I shouldn't be angry. - I shouldn't be afraid. - I shouldn't suffer. - I can die. - I can not die. - I am the human body which is experienced. - I am not the human body which is experienced. - I know myself. - I don't know myself. - I should be correct. - I should be right. and, - I should know. Interestingly, I noticed that there is stress in the thoughts involving - I should but I feel no stress in - " I want " when I really want something. I find " I want " part of the homogeneous reality. I find " I should " a position of opposition [to the reality]. Further, I find no stress in thoughts like " I want X " . But, I find stress in thoughts like " I can not get X " . When I fully experience " I want " , I feel true; I feel in power. I find " I want X " natural and true to arise on its own. But, I find " I can not get X " an artificial thought projection that arises due to assuming ownership of the though " I want " [which arose pretty much by itself] and, then by assuming " ownership " of everything that might need to happen for the want to materialize. I found that resting in " I want " is staying in my business. I found that the experience of " I can not get " is due to stepping in somebody else's business; the business of that which materializes all things in the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Adithya K <adithya_comming wrote: > > Other beliefs that I questioned: > > - I should be happy. > - I should be free. > - I should be content. > - I should be loving. > - I should be joyous. > > > - I shouldn't be stressed. > - I shouldn't be angry. > - I shouldn't be afraid. > - I shouldn't suffer. > > > - I can die. > - I can not die. > > > - I am the human body which is experienced. > - I am not the human body which is experienced. > > > - I know myself. > - I don't know myself. > > - I should be correct. > - I should be right. > > and, > > > - I should know. > > > > > Interestingly, I noticed that there is stress in the thoughts involving - I should but I feel no stress in - " I want " when I really want something. I find " I want " part of the homogeneous reality. I find " I should " a position of opposition [to the reality]. > > > Further, I find no stress in thoughts like " I want X " . But, I find stress in thoughts like " I can not get X " . When I fully experience " I want " , I feel true; I feel in power. > > I find " I want X " natural and true to arise on its own. But, I find " I can not get X " an artificial thought projection that arises due to assuming ownership of the though " I want " [which arose pretty much by itself] and, then by assuming " ownership " of everything that might need to happen for the want to materialize. > > I found that resting in " I want " is staying in my business. I found that the experience of " I can not get " is due to stepping in somebody else's business; the business of that which materializes all things in the universe. > > > I loved your entire list, but then I got the last paragraph... Why must there be an explanation... a pat answer? Do you desire 'reasons why " more than you desire things? What do we have when we have order in place of confusion? My only point I am going for is that answering the questions I asked may tell you something useful. Stu > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 " Interestingly, I noticed that there is stress in the thoughts involving - I should but I feel no stress in - " I want " when I really want something. " That sounds right. The psychological definition of stress goes soemthing like: that which is the result of not being prevented from doing what we want to do. Should,being conditional means " want but can't/don't " I think it's the right thing to do to reduce stress as much as possible in life, although it seems like we need a little stress to function in the rat race. Just like we need some ego. Many of do jobs that kind of engross us in the material world. Better to be a kitchen worker or cleaner. Or a floor polisher at an airport is a really good one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 > Interestingly, I noticed that there is stress in the thoughts involving - I should but I feel no stress in - " I want " when I really want something. I find " I want " part of the homogeneous reality. I find " I should " a position of opposition [to the reality]. >>>> good observations... Statements of the form " I want X " are not stressful because they simply state a fact, assuming for a particular X it is true. You can test this by making a statement of the form " I want X " where the statement is *not* true. For example, say, " I want to drink a glass of puke. " You might find actually saying such a statement, especially outloud, to be actually stressful, because something in you will be, at the same time, saying, " No! " So then there is conflict. But there can be also cases of " I want X " that are true but can bring on stress. For example, if one has vowed to quit smoking, the statement, " I want a cigarette " could potentially be stressful, depending on the individual, because even a true observation can bring up conflict. But for the most part it seems that statements of the form " I want X " that are true statements will not be stressful. A statement of the form " I should do X " will most likely entail conflict. One does not say, " I should do X " where there is no issue around doing it in the first place. For example, if one routinely brushes one's teeth in the morning the statement, " I should brush my teeth this morning, " will be unlikely to come up because we don't say " should " regarding things where there is no issue around doing them. It is not the word " should " itself, necessarily, but that we typically use that word when there are opposing forces within us around doing a thing. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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