Hi Folks !
How's Life ?!
Let's deal with a very interesting topic today.
I take Past Life Regression sessions and there is one hurt/pained/confused refrain I hear over and over again -
' I am so quiet, never talk back, always help everyone even if they have not or I don't like them. Never say anything because I know it is pointless '.
' Why do they hurt me? Ignore me? '
' Why don't I have long term friendships? '
The questions are genuine, the pain or loneliness real.
They start going into past lives and the layers start to peel off.
Someone has fought wars for his King or Commander and been respected his whole life by everyone.
Then comes the last moment and while reflecting on the life just ending, a few more layers get peeled off.
' I was ambitious and encouraged the King/ Commander to wage wars which were, well, maybe unnecessary '.
' Was he ambitious ? '
' Not much. He wanted to rule very well and I wanted more and more people to be ruled well by him. I genuinely wanted a good life for them, I was kind though maybe curt, but they understood I had to be that way '.
' Leave the body, come out, look back and tell me what is the bigger picture '.
' Oh - hmn - I think so many wars were not required. Those Kings were no danger to our Kingdom, they ruled well too '.
' Coming back to the reason why we are in this life time - ? '
' The King trusted me. I won wars for him. But it was my ego which enjoyed the excitement and fighting and winning. Many people were killed without any real reason, and they are the ones around me now, disliking me, ignoring me, treating me with indifference or contempt. I messed their lives, just to feel a hero'.
This is one example of ego masquerading as ambition.
There is also worry, love, anxiety, eagerness, keenness, getting into other people's lives with unasked for advice, in the process, crippling their growth and making them dependent on one.
Ego is one clever customer, believe me.
9 out of 10 will swear they have none, not one iota.
Check your own thoughts, reactions.
Read the posts on Energy Stealers again.
It's connected.
Our ego creates our image in our mind in lovely hues, giving it coat after coat of gold unobtrusively. until the glare is unbearable to others but we are convinced of our goodness and humbleness.
Emotions always sway us, either this way or that.
They do not let us be grounded because once we ground ourselves in our own reality, learn to examine it slowly, carefully, the first thing we will start to get rid of is the false coatings of our ego and it doesn't want to leave this cozy cloak of ' poor - me ', ' I am bearing it all because I have to ' and so on .
Examine yourself and you will be surprised at how clever you have been with the display of your chosen emotions.
So - called lack of self - confidence or pretending to be an introvert to cover up sheer laziness.
An excess of loving / caring to cover up the desire to control another's life.
An overpowering meddling, ensuring there is helplessness without our 'advice/ guidance/just slight suggestion' etc.
Cut it out.
Recognize it for the danger it is to your own evolution.
Emotions give the reins to your ego.
Keep them min check and you will start to grow the right way, freeing yourself and others.
I'm off to do a long, residential Pali course so the next post will be after a few months.
Read the old ones.
Enjoy.
Meditate.
Take care !
How's Life ?!
Let's deal with a very interesting topic today.
I take Past Life Regression sessions and there is one hurt/pained/confused refrain I hear over and over again -
' I am so quiet, never talk back, always help everyone even if they have not or I don't like them. Never say anything because I know it is pointless '.
' Why do they hurt me? Ignore me? '
' Why don't I have long term friendships? '
The questions are genuine, the pain or loneliness real.
They start going into past lives and the layers start to peel off.
Someone has fought wars for his King or Commander and been respected his whole life by everyone.
Then comes the last moment and while reflecting on the life just ending, a few more layers get peeled off.
' I was ambitious and encouraged the King/ Commander to wage wars which were, well, maybe unnecessary '.
' Was he ambitious ? '
' Not much. He wanted to rule very well and I wanted more and more people to be ruled well by him. I genuinely wanted a good life for them, I was kind though maybe curt, but they understood I had to be that way '.
' Leave the body, come out, look back and tell me what is the bigger picture '.
' Oh - hmn - I think so many wars were not required. Those Kings were no danger to our Kingdom, they ruled well too '.
' Coming back to the reason why we are in this life time - ? '
' The King trusted me. I won wars for him. But it was my ego which enjoyed the excitement and fighting and winning. Many people were killed without any real reason, and they are the ones around me now, disliking me, ignoring me, treating me with indifference or contempt. I messed their lives, just to feel a hero'.
This is one example of ego masquerading as ambition.
There is also worry, love, anxiety, eagerness, keenness, getting into other people's lives with unasked for advice, in the process, crippling their growth and making them dependent on one.
Ego is one clever customer, believe me.
9 out of 10 will swear they have none, not one iota.
Check your own thoughts, reactions.
Read the posts on Energy Stealers again.
It's connected.
Our ego creates our image in our mind in lovely hues, giving it coat after coat of gold unobtrusively. until the glare is unbearable to others but we are convinced of our goodness and humbleness.
Emotions always sway us, either this way or that.
They do not let us be grounded because once we ground ourselves in our own reality, learn to examine it slowly, carefully, the first thing we will start to get rid of is the false coatings of our ego and it doesn't want to leave this cozy cloak of ' poor - me ', ' I am bearing it all because I have to ' and so on .
Examine yourself and you will be surprised at how clever you have been with the display of your chosen emotions.
So - called lack of self - confidence or pretending to be an introvert to cover up sheer laziness.
An excess of loving / caring to cover up the desire to control another's life.
An overpowering meddling, ensuring there is helplessness without our 'advice/ guidance/just slight suggestion' etc.
Cut it out.
Recognize it for the danger it is to your own evolution.
Emotions give the reins to your ego.
Keep them min check and you will start to grow the right way, freeing yourself and others.
I'm off to do a long, residential Pali course so the next post will be after a few months.
Read the old ones.
Enjoy.
Meditate.
Take care !
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