So many thoughts…. My experience with being feels like a return to something I’ve always known and just is, it’s in all of us. Does that mean I feel it all the time. I get lulled into complacency. I enjoy a hot shower and not thinking about the chain of events that allow me a simple luxury. Do you ever feel like you’ve stepped onto a ride that ends when it ends. Enjoy it, don’t enjoy it. The ride doesn’t care.
There's a moment in the TV series 1883, where Elsa suddenly realises that the world, with all its beauty and brutality, was not designed with human convenience or comfort in mind.
Shiv, if you’re tormented by obsessive thoughts of conflict and dread and over sensitivity, is that still the void? If, in your mind, the solution that resonates is to walk away from the situation to end that suffering, is that still the void? If you come up with solutions to make it stop, is that still the void?
Sure. But healthy and normal has nothing to do with the decision you make and everything to do with the place you make it from. So, before you make any choice one way or another - can you sit and be still? Can you allow the drama to fade to the background and allow the being to fully occupy awareness? Can you feel how this moment is actually empty of all your feelings and opinions about it? Until you do that you are still avoiding the void and thereby are driven by fear….
So let me see if I understand you... there is no running away from the shit. The shit is inevitable. But it is making a decision knowing full well that it will not get rid of all feelings of discomfort and conflict?
So many thoughts…. My experience with being feels like a return to something I’ve always known and just is, it’s in all of us. Does that mean I feel it all the time. I get lulled into complacency. I enjoy a hot shower and not thinking about the chain of events that allow me a simple luxury. Do you ever feel like you’ve stepped onto a ride that ends when it ends. Enjoy it, don’t enjoy it. The ride doesn’t care.
There's a moment in the TV series 1883, where Elsa suddenly realises that the world, with all its beauty and brutality, was not designed with human convenience or comfort in mind.
Shiv, if you’re tormented by obsessive thoughts of conflict and dread and over sensitivity, is that still the void? If, in your mind, the solution that resonates is to walk away from the situation to end that suffering, is that still the void? If you come up with solutions to make it stop, is that still the void?
No, all of that happens in the void. All of that is a reaction to the void. All of that is driven by fear of the void.
But isn’t it healthy and normal when you realize that something isn’t good for you and you gotta draw an ultimatum and make it stop?
Sure. But healthy and normal has nothing to do with the decision you make and everything to do with the place you make it from. So, before you make any choice one way or another - can you sit and be still? Can you allow the drama to fade to the background and allow the being to fully occupy awareness? Can you feel how this moment is actually empty of all your feelings and opinions about it? Until you do that you are still avoiding the void and thereby are driven by fear….
So let me see if I understand you... there is no running away from the shit. The shit is inevitable. But it is making a decision knowing full well that it will not get rid of all feelings of discomfort and conflict?