(this is a continuation, so please read these in order so that you can get the total understanding: 1. Slow Down (part 1) 2. Slow Down (Part 2) 3. Your Personality and Understanding the Puppeteer 4. Duality & Desire: How to Begin to Be Free of the Puppeteer)
Justification vs Faith
Don't let your thinking mind thoughts/emotions justify or convince you that it is the truth about something (please read the links I put above to explain 'puppeteer'). Because when you know from your own observations what is true and what is the illusion, you will begin to build your awareness about things and you will come to a point where it is now a 'battle' between your thinking mind and you/Reality (you're just correcting your awareness). This is where Faith comes in. Because your thinking mind will justify its reasoning for your 'story' although you now know from your awareness how things actually work. But you are going to experience trouble in being duped again and again by your thinking mind. Therefore, you need to use a bridge to cross from the thinking mind to Reality. This bridge is called FAITH. So listen carefully: Even if the thought is true, it should not have a bodyguard of afflictive emotions and thoughts accompanying it -- that is JUSTIFYING. So, just as we should not be taking our thoughts personally, we should also not take our emotions personally.
In your thinking mind, you can think about any thought about anything at any given time. Just because you believe some of them DOES NOT MAKE THE THOUGHT REAL because the thought is only coming from one of your emotional seeds. It is just a reflection in your brain's 'eye'. So the difference is, between all of the thoughts that are going around your mind, out of all of them, one of them or a few of them sticks. The ones that stick are the thoughts you believe to be true, then it suddenly becomes REAL TO YOU. It is the same as your emotions. You can have any emotion about anything at any given time. Just because you happen to believe one of them to be true does not make it real.
Here are other examples of 'Seeds':
- Pride (puffing yourself up, pride about where you are socially, pride about your background, family, education, and so on)
- Story (anything pertaining to your 'story', i.e. friendships -- using people to enhance your story, rejecting those that hurt your story or does not 'fit in' your story; imagining your future -- creating your story; relating to your past -- being controlled by your story.)
- Nonsense (thinking about nonsense mumbo jumbo)
- Ignorance (thoughts centered on things you don't know about, i.e. the future or judging people/your own self/things)
- Vanity
- Addictions (all kinds, habits are under the umbrella of addiction)
So now, after doing the Duality & Desire (I put the link on top of this post) practices and you get the hang of it, you can look further into the thoughts/emotions that arise within you and simply say: 'Oh wait why is it that I feel jealous about this? A-ha! It's because I believe that such and such has a better or poorer story to mine.' But this is you believing that you must have a story in the first place so simply just say: 'But I am not defined by a story.' That's it. Making that affirmation instantly brings you peace in the mind because you have just changed the definition of your relationship with that person who made you jealous. It's almost funny when you begin to figure this out and you witness the simplicity of it. Whereas before doing these practices you would have been naive and gullible and followed on those thoughts and emotions, potentially turning a situation ugly and your day would have been ruined.
Your thinking mind will still justify as much as it can that it is real and that Reality is the illusion. That is why you need to have the courage to begin crossing the bridge of Faith. That means: Have Faith that your observations of Reality are correct. Why are they correct? Because it's Reality! Strengthen COURAGE and weaken Self-Doubt.
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