Life Sucks - Now What?

PROCESS THE STUFF WE SEE

Short of dropping out of the stream of life to become hermits we have to react or relate to the events we encounter, no matter how pleasant or objectionable – slight or foreboding. Just how we do this will greatly affect the quality of our lives and how we affect others and so none are insignificant. Subsequently each encounter holds either the power to set us up to fail - or else guarantee our success. Whichever is to be depends upon how we meet the events.

Failure is automatic every time any affairs upset us. Being upset through reactionary emotional responses displaces our first line of defense against cruelty which is our natural birthright state of neutrality.

Success is equally automatic whenever we instead maintain balance and neutrality through not being upset by the things we see. This is only possible after we learn to make allowances for those who impose their injustices. We can do so when we realize that perhaps they are not so much deserving of condemnation as they are of forgiveness since they are simply being unthinking and reactionary themselves when they are being cruel. This can happen when we concede to our innermost selves that people are not aware of the harms they do to us and to others.

This kind of discerning vision happens in a moment; in a twinkling of the eye; in ‘the now’, if you prefer. It is the exact moment that we exert our free choice to either properly relating to cruelty and injustice or improperly reacting to it.

There always is a ‘now’ moment. Just like the sun always shines somewhere it is perpetual and never ceases. It is eternal and it never goes away. It is always now.

Here-and-now -- is the place in time and space, in our consciousness, where we review the events we have been observing. It is the place where we process and experience them – at a level that is beyond mere eyesight and human vision. It is the conscious place where we can either feel or not feel them. In the moment when we simply discern – we do not feel. This unattached discernment is our vision and ability to distinguish danger from benefit – to dispassionately tell right from wrong. This discerning moment is entirely unencumbered by emotion and is pure vision without any self-will injected into it.