GOING BEYOND GOOD OR BAD
The TAO says, “ When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”
In this world of duality consciousness, we have practiced our minds to see some things as good and some things as bad. Also the mind has a storehouse of filed ideas and thoughts about good and bad as perceived by our senses and as taught by the society. And we are the Creators and the organizers of this entire play of good or bad. The meaning for everything in life is the meaning we have given it. We are absolutely responsible for our creation. No one else is responsible to make us feel good or bad.
We give meanings to life situations and create judgments. We continue to judge others and ourselves creating pain, stress, and divisions against ourselves and other people. Resistance, comparisons, and competitions become the theme of everyday situations. They start at a very early age as, I am not good enough, I cannot be satisfied with myself, I have to be better, bigger, faster, smarter and it goes on and on, and then it plays out with our relationships with other people, other countries, and the world at large. Everything gets divided and there becomes a huge amount of pain and anguish in the heart.
Life as a human with the mind anchored in judgments creates suffering. The suffering is always because of the perception of good or bad. Running the race is good, but when it is judged as winning then it becomes suffering. Pain is an experience but when it is judged as bad it becomes suffering.
The heart is the place of purity, a place where there is oneness, a place of undivided limitlessness. We are great magnificent beings who chose to keep a tiniest part of ourselves in these human bodies to experience the gift of a human life. We have forgotten our magnificence, only our heart knows this greater part of our being. Hence the heart is never compromised by the illusion of judgments of good or bad.
To live in oneness with the heart brings comfort and peace. To live in oneness with the heart one has to die; I am reminded of the verse in the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, that says “It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
The real truth about dying while alive is letting go of all the divisions of good or bad, going beyond good or bad, going beyond what appears to be, being in a neutral state , in a place of choiceless consciousness. It is the art of getting out of the mind, watching the mind, being a witness. Just stopping to watch the mind, taking short breaths of awareness, brings greater understanding and helps to drop all illusions of good or bad.
Let us choose to go beyond the concept of good or bad, we are powerful beings and it is possible for us.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~
The TAO says, “ When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”
In this world of duality consciousness, we have practiced our minds to see some things as good and some things as bad. Also the mind has a storehouse of filed ideas and thoughts about good and bad as perceived by our senses and as taught by the society. And we are the Creators and the organizers of this entire play of good or bad. The meaning for everything in life is the meaning we have given it. We are absolutely responsible for our creation. No one else is responsible to make us feel good or bad.
We give meanings to life situations and create judgments. We continue to judge others and ourselves creating pain, stress, and divisions against ourselves and other people. Resistance, comparisons, and competitions become the theme of everyday situations. They start at a very early age as, I am not good enough, I cannot be satisfied with myself, I have to be better, bigger, faster, smarter and it goes on and on, and then it plays out with our relationships with other people, other countries, and the world at large. Everything gets divided and there becomes a huge amount of pain and anguish in the heart.
Life as a human with the mind anchored in judgments creates suffering. The suffering is always because of the perception of good or bad. Running the race is good, but when it is judged as winning then it becomes suffering. Pain is an experience but when it is judged as bad it becomes suffering.
The heart is the place of purity, a place where there is oneness, a place of undivided limitlessness. We are great magnificent beings who chose to keep a tiniest part of ourselves in these human bodies to experience the gift of a human life. We have forgotten our magnificence, only our heart knows this greater part of our being. Hence the heart is never compromised by the illusion of judgments of good or bad.
To live in oneness with the heart brings comfort and peace. To live in oneness with the heart one has to die; I am reminded of the verse in the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, that says “It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
The real truth about dying while alive is letting go of all the divisions of good or bad, going beyond good or bad, going beyond what appears to be, being in a neutral state , in a place of choiceless consciousness. It is the art of getting out of the mind, watching the mind, being a witness. Just stopping to watch the mind, taking short breaths of awareness, brings greater understanding and helps to drop all illusions of good or bad.
Let us choose to go beyond the concept of good or bad, we are powerful beings and it is possible for us.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~
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