Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 oment would have been broken for them and consciousness would have flowed through them possibly demonstrate to the boatman that the Guru is obviously a very good teacher because the boatman's button pressing habit did not affect these true disciples. Swamiji has told me I am here to learn and here to teach. That is all I intend. Sincerely, BrianNo banners. No pop-ups. No kidding.Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2004 Report Share Posted April 15, 2004 om shanti om, fellow traveler ... steve , "Brian McKee" <brian@s...> wrote: > There has been some misunderstanding about what I meant by non- reaction so I'd like to clarify. Consciousness is a watcher for the most part, she is watching me now as I type this, letting my mind attempt to explain what she has taught me. She will only guide me when I need guidance and only when I find the stillness to listen. The first step on my spiritual path was to recognize that i am (ego is) the cause of my own suffering, to that end I began to mentally disassemble my habits to understand how I sabbotaged myself. My first lesson was the recognition that I posess certain qualities, handed down from my parents, grand parents, etc which cause me to mentally, emotionally and sometimes physically react to certain kinds of stimulous. I call these stimulous "buttons" and I call people who deliberately press them "button pressers." There are inumerable reasons why people press buttons on purpose, but I will add this: people who press buttons are usually unconsciously doing so, even if they think they are doing it in awareness, they are not, because ego awareness is not awareness itself. That is the same as analogy of the ship with no captain. At first, after my discovery of my buttons, I attempted to create thoughts and habits that prevented me from reacting to the buttons. This in effect created more buttons and made matters worse. I didn't know that at first because I had some success. After all, emulating consciousness at the mental level does have positive effects. It gets the goddess' attention and she grants us our first boon, to be king of the three worlds, to have the ego in charge of all the thoughts, to be the head of this little empire we call a body. But after a while these interceptor thoughts began to out number the good thoughts, and I lost myself in a sea of mental confusion. I had so many interceptors battling buttons and their reactions that I was actually farther away from goddess. She knew that, but it took some time before I realized it. This was my intelectual phase of identification. It couldn't last long for me because my buttons are numerous. For people less afflicted it is easy to create "police" thoughts and keep things in relative harmony. Those people will hang out in intelectualism for a while, until they begin to actually feel the goddess within them, then personal crisis will set in, the same personal crisis I had when I realized that my thoughts were entirely out of control. When I talk about not reacting, I mean feeling the button press, feeling the emotions and thoughts that flood outward because we have been programmed by our ancestors to have them, but simply not reacting to any of it. In order to not react we must not identify with our buttons; the emotions, thoughts or actions created; or the hurt we feel. We must identify with goddess. Non-reaction means conscious acceptance / conscious understanding / wisdom. It is during those moments that we feel the most anguish and pain, and it is through that pain that we can begin to recognize the stillness of her grace. By seeking her, instead of acting out in the same old pattern, we break the cycle of reaction begets reaction, and allow consciousness to flood the situation. The two disciples had opposite afflictions: one was anger violent and the other was passive agressive. They are the same affliction but one is extroverted and the other is introverted. One tends to hurt others and the other tends to hurt the self. (From her perspective its the same thing, and that is Karma) To be conscious in a test moment -- Maha Maya's moment, the time when she can be perceived directly -- the disciples would have had to let go of their reactions to the boatman and feel the pain of the truth, that they are afflicted, that their minds are NOT at peace. Through the recognition that they are not at peace, they would have found peace and Maya's illusion of the moment would have been broken for them and consciousness would have flowed through them possibly demonstrate to the boatman that the Guru is obviously a very good teacher because the boatman's butt > on pressing habit did not affect these true disciples. Swamiji has told me I am here to learn and here to teach. That is all I intend. Sincerely, Brian > > _____________ > No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. > Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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