all of us have pain buddies as you point out and most of us go to a job and I'm
wondering if you could recommend ways in which we can use what we do at work to
become free thank you now at work usually you go into an environment that
is dominated by little Me's and egos and big ego structures unconsciousness at
work many big organizations are still run there are maybe a few exceptions but
many organizations are still run by that consciousness that state of
consciousness so a great help is not to expect others to be conscious not to
expect consciousness where there isn't consciousness you will be very often as
you do this practice for yourself you will very easily observe unconsciousness
and pain bodies arising in other people at work being acted out through their
mind and it'll happen continuously in some companies more than in others and
it's the same practice because it's basically the relationship it's bringing
presence into relationships when pain body arises in somebody else don't go
into the reactivity that would be the little me fighting somebody's pain body
which can easily trigger your own pain body and you get a big argument it's the
practice is relinquishing the reactivity of the little me so you allow
unconsciousness in the other person doesn't mean you give in every time
there's a great it's getting hold of the state of presence and bringing presence
into your work to the conference table to the committee meeting
and as you sit there little egos having their battles all around the table you
watch and perhaps for a moment you remember this moment and that brings
back the state of presence and then you sit there in the state of you feel
intensely connected with the body and you watch everybody's contribution
without mental judgment you bring presence to the conference table to the
committee meeting not the reactivity of the me will you watch
and then you may find yourself making a contribution and saying something out of
the state of presence and it'll bring a different quality to the whole
interaction there's one person there who brings in a different consciousness and
then see what happens so instead of there's nothing you can do to change
others as such and most of the world still lives in unconsciousness
that's how it is don't expect it to be otherwise so it's allowing it's in the
allowing people their consciousness this by the way also implies to your
relationships with other people like long-standing relationships with parents
which too many people or children grown-up children and parents for many
people that's a very problematic area because there's so much past in there
there's often so much unconsciousness and dysfunction in families so the most
beautiful thing happens when you can let's say it's your parents when you can
allow your parents completely to be who they are you give up this just really
the little me you give up the desire to be understood by them the little me says
you need to understand me they want but wait you will feel a weight being taken
off your shoulders when you you there's a relinquishing of the need to be
understood by your parents wow that's a relief they don't need to understand me
and then there's a letting go as it all comes with presence there's a letting go
of wanting them to be different wanting them to behave differently accusing them
of having done this or that or having failed to do this or that there was
nobody there to have failed there was just unconsciousness in motion
nothing personal in it they did what they could do according to their level
of consciousness really there was nobody there to ever have done anything or not
done anything it was unconsciousness playing itself
out that's why Jesus said forgive them for they know not what they do when you
realize they didn't know any better there wasn't enough consciousness if
Jesus hasn't had lived now he would have said forgive them for they are
completely unconscious that's what it means
it's just unconsciousness playing itself out and then even that drops away that
so feeling that they should have done something differently and the more
presence arises in you the more you realize nobody ever did anything to you
the the presence it's only the little the identity of the little me feels hurt
or injured when the the dimension of presence arises presence always remained
totally pristine totally pure totally fresh and new nothing ever happened to
it so that your the reality of who you are nothing ever happened to that no
matter what pain was inflicted on you in your childhood as presence emerges you
realize that I mentioned in you that was never touched
and then forgiveness happens automatically you don't have to try to
forgive as long as you try to forgive it's not really working oh I should be
forgiving because I'm spiritual it that doesn't you can you cannot really
make yourself forgiveness happens naturally as presents arises and you
feel the vastness of who you truly are beyond the little me forgiveness is just
there if you don't even have a word right anymore
so it really it's all towards all relationships whether at work or with
parents between parents and children the most powerful tool the most is to
allow everyone to be who they are which is an aspect of allowing this moment to
be as it is on the canvas of this moment very often people will appear in it very
often this moment will come to you as a person it may come to you as a person's
plain body coming out of this at you okay the practice is allow it to be
that's where power flows through the mind says no you can't allow it to be
you should be doing something about it the most powerful transformation happens
through allowing to be so when I say allow the present moment to be very
often that means allow this person to be allowed the unconsciousness to be there
it's fine
and then you will notice the relationships with your parents improve
dramatically when you give up the desire to be understood you don't need that
anymore you realized there was nobody there who ever did anything to you or
fail to do anything so you can see a miraculous transformations in situations
through allowing that's where the vast power comes through whether it's at work
or with you can try it out when is what's coming up soon
Thanksgiving a wonderful place to practice when all the family gets
together for some people it's agony having to go through that now at this
time see if you can bring in complete acceptance from OTAs everybody around
the table it happens to be part of this moment then allow this moment including
the turkey dinner and whatever it is people acting out they're conditioned
behavior you can predict what they're going to say next because they say the
same thing 10 years ago allow it to be and and then your next practice will be
Christmas they get together again the is always that's always a good and the O's
the ultimate test is parents you may Ram Dass
set is famous statement if you think you're so enlightened go and spend a
week with your parents
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