Every human being on the planet has the capacity to do this: Rather than identify with I am suffering, I am in pain, my heart is broken, I am bored, frustrated, stressed, anxious, depressed, angry, jealous, craving, etc... we can identify as so: there is my anger again, there is the energy of anxiety, there is my conditioned jealousy programmed by the past, here comes my depressive thoughts again, etc. See the big difference? Rather than associating who we are as passing emotions and thoughts, we can be sitting comfortably in the awareness of these transient things, see them come, not get attached or resist them, and let them pass by. When we turn these passing emotions into a sense of self, we give them vitality and it creates more and more suffering and pain. But by being aware of them, we dissolve them, and come back to our centred place of peace and equanimity. This is the transformation of consciousness - bringing awareness into being aware, shifting identity to awareness, rather than the things we are aware of.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:16:30 +0000
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