Quote:
Originally Posted by Splendour
I challenge you to examine yourself and explain why when someone steals your cookie you get upset about it.
Why the emotion if there's nobody in there?
And I challenge you to do the same. Examine and observe what is happening with you.
If the e(nergy in)motion called "upset" arises, what is happening?
When one
attaches to it and
identifies with it; there is a "self", there is a story.
Yet, note, that you can observe all of this happening.
You, the real you, are observing from your place of being.
And you can control whether or not you attach to it or take identity from it.
In the middle of an arising emotion or thought or judgment, what happens when you focus your attention on your breath? Well, all that arising floats away, it dissipates. You don't have to attach to it or take identity from it. In the Christian language, that simple shift in focus is called being "in the spirit"
Jesus: I can of mine own self do nothing.