So this is what set up the anxiety. Then we hear that is sure a long hard job to ever get over this conditioning. It's terrible but I'm really working at it. So we set up this tremendous goal which has lovely names on it like integrated, good, to be saintly, transfigured, but it's only attainable in the future. But right now I'm miserable. But the minute you don't have goals but only have as your purpose "to be peaceful this moment" it's possible that right now, you have peace of mind because the whole thing that tore up the peace of mind was having a goal for it in the first place.
Now we started with a goal very early in our existence back here with that first decision the day we were born - the little one set up it's goal in order to be non disturbed later and it started screaming. And fifty years later it will still be screaming, so it will be peaceful later. But what's wrong with just being peaceful right now, I can get along with it. You can't get along with yourself if you are trying to make yourself over into this ideal person over here.
You see another word for the goal is "ideal". Now whether it's the ideal me or it is any other ideal, it's still the same thing, a goal or an ideal is the same thing.
You have an ideal for your child and then you say, "Now you must do this". And then of course you're all disturbed when the child doesn't.
But when someone says to you, "You have to do so and so", how do you feel about it? Do you enjoy that or do you bow your back right there. So the so-called younger generation is rebelling all over the place and the rest are concerned as to what they are going to do about it- the kids are going to Hades with their back broke and it's ruining the country. But all their doing is expressing their rebellion against what? "You have to". The minute you set a goal, then comes all the "have to's", does it not?
more to come..
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