Gary Childress wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 12:27 pm
I have negativity, I have resentment, I have bitterness, other people aggravate me and God's world aggravates me. Now what?
Does that help?
You took a step into the e-prime realm, which requires no secret handshakes but does require you to offer the alms of sincerity to the effort, alms formed by purification that as a principle often get codified into formal, manifest rituals and trials according to the tradition. From now on, take the energy required to maintain all that
having, and use it to compose postings in e-prime. The action will rewire your brain to build your spirit in real time rather than crushing it.
That might help, you.
Maintaining all those haves keeps the mind busy twiddling its thumbs. Sucks up the energy and attention. Every possession carries with it a responsibility to maintain that possession because you crave permanence. Whatever you possess, possesses you, and in the case of being possessed by the body even defines you.
Tossing or losing the baggage of such Having Attachments, which like a contaigon appropriates voice energy to declare their existence, accounts for
Ananda.
Thus, the case for renunciation. For
Being, a literal loser.