De Toga op een Kiertje: a different perception

My first blog was about Joseph Benner, who, at the time, made a very progressive booklet (1914) and showed the difference between your EGO and your Self. The EGO  which is created at the moment we are born and is made up of all kinds of assumptions which we adopt such as: who you are, where you live, whether your car defines your identity. And the higher Self which often remains hidden for many others but is ultimately the invisible engine behind our existence.

In a crisis situation in which a conflict erupts you often assume all kinds of biased judgements. You start a fight against the outside world which is mistaken, which does not mean well with you and is against you. But how do you know?

The EGO is on edge because you are in danger of losing something, something that contributes to who you are. At least, that is what you think, that is your conviction. Actually, all that you see and that is based on that conviction of the EGO is false, since it has been made up by you or by people around you. In reality you do not lose anything. After all, there is nothing to lose because you are not your inner convictions. By looking in a different way you also can observe and receive differently. By distancing yourself from all your thoughts the purpose of which is only to feed your EGO, you will see that you will get your freedom back. By stopping passing judgement on others, you make yourself lighter.

Go back to the stillness in yourself

If you allow yourself more space, you will find the time to go back to the stillness in yourself. And then you can listen to your higher SELF, listen and receive. Attune yourself once again to your real destination and focus on that goal. A conflict between two persons is like a temporary obstacle and you have to leap over that obstacle. If you chose from Love, you will see that you do not lose anything of yourself. You will be guided by your Impersonal Self, you higher SELF which is not about right or wrong because the SELF knows only Love.

By looking differently, you will discover that it is not the world adopting an attitude which is against you, but that you do so yourself by the assumptions and biases which the EGO considers as being the truth. To some all this seems rather vague, however, just assume that it is true and that it is only you who is putting labels on people and on the behaviour of people towards you, and that it is only you who is bothered by it, what sense does it then make to continue labelling these people and their behaviour? Once more, the EGO thinks that it is what it has, what it possesses and which social status it holds. But you and I know now that all this is only the wrapping. That this is only appearance. What is really important is that within you feel Love, that you care about yourself and take good care of yourself. Everything clinging on to you in a negative sense is merely ballast and a heavy load.

LET GO OF THE BALLAST

If you would let the EGO go, and you would be able to distance yourself from all those material labels, just think then who you really are. Who you used to be when you were still playing in freedom and chasing a ball in the street? Did not that child harbour only goodness, nothing but Love? You did not worry about the colour of your eyes. To you it was indifferent whether your legs were long or short?

It was only later on that all that was stuck on to you and that your short legs started to bother you, while these legs were functioning just as well as before, while these legs carried you to any place you wanted to run. And that is how it is in a conflict, too. People react out of Fear because they have the feeling that someone else intends to take something away from them, their beauty or wealth, their child or their job, that someone wants to break off a part of their EGO. If you want to break free from that EGO and are willing to observe differently, you will experience that people can never take away your Love.

FREEDOM WITHOUT OBSTACLES

Then your path your job and your happiness are your richness. Then the life you live is based on freedom without obstacles, then you love without pressure and without control. Observing in a different way shows you that in the end everybody needs that freedom. And that negative feelings caused by others are only made-up feelings in a world dominated by the EGO. Try to leave that and go back to your origin. Allow yourself to spend an hour a day in nature and remember who you were.

Be the change you wish to see in the world – Mahatma Gandhi – To be continued