While we walked around investigating the changes, I felt a tinge of sadness overcome me. I knew immediately this is your work, negative ego. You made me feel a sense of sadness that the world has come to this -- that an island which used to have beautiful natural surroundings has now been transformed to a concrete jungle of hotels, casino and a playing field to cultivate mammon.
I quickly pulled you out and said, no I refuse to see the world through your perspective of despair and sadness. Yes it may be true that mammon seems to rule most of the world at this time, but that is not something I should be sad about or to allow you to come in to focus on illusion. I see this as an opportunity to remind me why I am here on earth and that all the more my focus must be in God and Self Realization.
Be gone negative ego!
Be gone negative ego!
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Because of the casino, spiritual people have the more opportunity to do business(although at the same time some people escalate in their negativity). Nobody knows the final outcome.
ReplyDeleteShamala, In your writing about the tinge of sadness, I was lead to something I had been asking for. I wanted clarity about situations like this. I feel deep in my heart that I see a lot of things that aren't of higher nature that others don't (e.g. slaughter of animals) I often get sad over these things. In the long run, I am able to love everyone involved, whereas I use to get very mad with those who were not awake.
ReplyDeleteI thought being sad was okay, good even to help us feel and realize. I thought it was okay as long we felt it and let it pass, then naturally we would come to a place where we never were sad again. I have often wondered what people that are more awake than me do in situations like I encounter.
Thank you,
Tara
Hi Tara, it is interesting what you say here re: thinking it is ok to feel sad as long as we let it pass and that we would come to a place that we never were sad -- i had the same thinking before. But i realised that the sadness can pull people into further negativity, and that few can truly move out of negative mode if they don't work on transcending it or mastering it. Most people just direct their sadness onto something else! It is as my husband Toby says, just moving their furniture about in their heads!
ReplyDeleteUltimately if we want to master self, we have to transcend negativity and realise that it is not in our Divinity to indulge in any thoughts/feelings that are negative. That would only cause us more confusion. If we try to use negativity to remind us we are human, the it is like saying to have a healthy body, we need to balance junk food with healthy food in our diets! We are divine in human bodies, this means we must always feed our minds, feelings, bodies and all aspects of ourselves with God created expressions, so that we can maintain our Godliness, or at least work towards becoming more like what we are supposed to be :)
Namaste....