Tuesday, May 12, 2009

joy & sorrow

i discussed this matter earlier, yet this one deserves to be repeated like a mantra, as people to whom i communicate do not tire to remind me of this with lack of smiles on their mind.

there are things we fear. there are deep secrets we do not share with anyone. they are but guidelines to what is holding us. these are great symptoms of attachments, habits we've built up so far.

so, what to do about them? in my experience shock gives best results and almost in all cases guaranteed results. how? start telling truth. always. i did that late winter night in 2004. one of the things that helped me most. it is very difficult in the beginning. it is painful. now it's natural and peaceful.

what do you fear most? confront it. face to face. have control over it. teach your mind to have no fear. if it's harmful in reality, this can be done with imagination. results in this case are not so dramatic, yet fine in place in most cases.


to deal with the self we have to cut the strongest of its roots. enough reading. go practice.

good luck.
mickael

2 comments:

Barry said...

This is really an important post, Mickael.

Tell the truth. Only the truth. Always the truth.

And, especially: tell the truth whenever we don't want to tell the truth.

What's the worst that could happen? And how does this "worst" stack up against a life lived in honesty? And, if we cannot be honest, then how can love emerge?

mickael said...

telling truth merely is an exercise. like facing fears. like meditation. like vegetarian diet. nothing exciting. ;)

good luck.
mickael