Roger's BLOG
Cookie machine
All human suffering is the presence of a specific form of thought. All thoughts are spat out of the brain.
The brain is like a cookie machine designed and configured a certain way in order to produce specific types of cookies. When the cookie machine is reconfigured the cookies which come out will be different.
Wolf in sheep's clothing
Check to see if the motivating factor for your spiritual practice is coming from the expectation of improved outcomes in the flow of life. And if so, take the recognition as an opportunity to assess whether 'attachment to outcomes' has managed to disguise itself into what has been taken by you to be the most noble of pursuits.
Attitude of blaming
The uncomfortable feeling of blame is based on seeing the other as the 'doer'.
No control
By all means do your best, but keep in mind that the outcome is out of your hands.
Doership & seeking
God disguised himself as a person, forgot, then started looking for God.
The suffering virus
The basis of all forms of suffering is the principle of 'doership' & 'attachment to outcomes'.
This virus has embedded itself at the root of the psyche and continues to replicate and morph by contaminating each human interaction with it insidious structure, thus tightening its grip on the system.
This virus starts to get contained and undermined when the psychic immune system becomes equipped with powerful viral antibodies which can detect new viral replications and minimise or neutralise them before they take hold, interfering with their powerful reign.
This detection and neutralisation has to start on the outer layers first, meaning that the 'primary forms of suffering' such as blame, judgement, anxiety etc. continue to arise based on the deeply ingrained viral pattern, however any subsequent attitude of doership and attachment towards the 'primary suffering' can be detected and neutralised. The psychic immune system (the empowered working mind) detects and neutralises the viral tendency with a clearer interpretation based on an understanding of the principles of non-doership.
As the antibodies get stronger through application and experience they automatically starts to penetrate further undermining the same viral pattern on deeper and deeper layers of the psyche until the virus is completely eradicated.
Isn't it worth becoming familiar with what mental dynamics 'doership' and 'attachment to outcomes' refer to?
Doing so is the equipping of the psychic immune system with the appropriate antibodies.
Peace for now.
Love
To love everyone is to not hate anyone.
Mechanical chain of reaction
As the first domino is pushed the last has already dropped.
A dog chasing its tail
Be clear on what you're REALLY seeking.
In practice you may be craving circumstance and outcomes, but what you're actually seeking is what you ultimately believe the outcomes will deliver - happiness.
It's closer than you think, in any moment just remember to stop looking out there, and BE.
Love
When competition, rivalry, and suspicion end, love can begin.