Feelings

You talk about your feelings a lot. You confront others with them, as though they were responsible for them, or interested.

Feelings neither have, nor confer, validity.

Just because you have feelings, does not mean that anything exists.

 

Your feelings are your creations, the results of decisions of yours.  For example, if you feel slighted by some instance of lack of attention your way, you can take on jealousy, anger, or spite.  These feelings get very strong quickly and distract you from anything else.  From what could they proceed but your previous decision as to how much attention you deserve? You decided you should be worthy of a certain amount of attention first.

 

 

All negative feelings come from some decision made by the ego.  All negative emotions are tools of the ego.  Jealousy, hatred, anxiety, unease, insecurity:  these are all its beloved terrain. Ego wants nothing more than for you to be endlessly embroiled.  When you are taken over by feelings, you lose your capacity to ask questions, and so you remain unawakened, unconscious.

 

 

Do not get involved in the rights and wrongs of any situation.  To do so is an attempt to assign blame.  Assigning blame is a useless endeavor because it prevents you from seeing your own part in any situation that you are experiencing.  Refuse to pick up blame.  It is one of ego’s most seductive tools.  You can waste a lifetime in blame.

 

 

If you feel uncomfortable in a situation, ill-used and undervalued, take steps to immediately get out of it.  Why have you set yourself as a being who deserves all this unhappiness?  Why have you chosen this?  What is your idea of yourself?  Who do you think you are?  Are you some composite of past perceived mistakes and successes? Must you be always working on yourself?

 

Or are you an infinite, already created being?

 

All negative feelings are the ego’s work.  They proceed from a small self-image, the perspective of a creature who feels threatened.  Only the threatened can experience fear, pain and rejection.

If you choose the perspective of an infinite, already created being, you know your existence is guaranteed forever, in a place where time has no meaning.  There would be no need to create yourself.  Without threats, you could only be calm, unafraid and endlessly present.

 

 

When negative feelings gnaw at your insides, it is ego wielding them to get your attention.  If an uneasy situation recurs, say the conduit prayer over it, dismiss it.  After a while, it will cease to be a problem.

 

Remember who you are