Perception
What more wonderful, glorious, miraculous, splendid thing can there be than this world?
Every winter the trees go dormant; it's almost like death. Then spring comes, and everything comes back to life. Flowers bloom, leaves unfurl. Then summer arrives and it's glorious! After that, fall comes with its vivid colors and tremendous beauty, then winter again, over and over.
Every day the sun comes up, giving light for us to see and to make distinction in color and form. Then daylight fades and the darkness of night follows, making things almost indistinguishable until dawn comes again.
Of course, we can choose to feel that everything is awful. Every day is a bad day and we are always suffering. Why do we suffer? Nothing ever goes the way we want it to go; we want more or we want something else; we want ourselves to be different or others to be different. We are losing our bodies; they are growing old, decaying, falling apart, and everything looks grim, terrible.
If we feel it is bad, everything becomes bad; if we feel it is good, then it all appears good.
The whole world is created from Mind. How we perceive it is the whole story.
Every winter the trees go dormant; it's almost like death. Then spring comes, and everything comes back to life. Flowers bloom, leaves unfurl. Then summer arrives and it's glorious! After that, fall comes with its vivid colors and tremendous beauty, then winter again, over and over.
Every day the sun comes up, giving light for us to see and to make distinction in color and form. Then daylight fades and the darkness of night follows, making things almost indistinguishable until dawn comes again.
Of course, we can choose to feel that everything is awful. Every day is a bad day and we are always suffering. Why do we suffer? Nothing ever goes the way we want it to go; we want more or we want something else; we want ourselves to be different or others to be different. We are losing our bodies; they are growing old, decaying, falling apart, and everything looks grim, terrible.
If we feel it is bad, everything becomes bad; if we feel it is good, then it all appears good.
The whole world is created from Mind. How we perceive it is the whole story.
posted by Gr8fulTed at 6:44 AM
2 Comments:
Very Dear Ted,
Because we are "trapped" into seeing the world through the filters we are most comfortable with, it is necessary to know our filters well in order to step outside of them. Likewise, since we create the world we live in by what our expectations of the world are, we must first know how we define our world in order to redefine or open it to other possibilities. A while back, I encouraged you to look into what enneagram (http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/) or meyer's brigg type (http://www.personalitypathways.com/MBTI_intro.html) you fit best with, I understand that you took an online test but were at a loss as to how to best apply this knowledge. I'd encourage you to look further into the descriptions of your typology, and if your goal is ultimately to see beyond the perspective and viewpoints you generally default to by preference, try on some NLP redirections for your type. I have personally found that my worldview and perspectives have been greatly expanded by such exercises. In turn, my world has become open to more possibilities and I realize more than ever that all I seek is already at hand. Specifically, I would suggest this book to start: Enneagram Transformations by Don Richard Riso, it is simple and easy to use. Just say the transformations to yourself as meditations several times a day for several days and you are likely to feel some subtle and not so subtle changes over time. Reference this site for more: http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/books/Books_ET.asp "This book offers an answer to the question "Now that I know my type, what do I do?" it looks at the nine types from the perspective of healing and compassion. In simple language, it paints a portrait of each type’s central dilemma and provides specific Releases and Affirmations for each type as practices that can awaken us to our higher spiritual qualities. The Release guide us to awareness of the shadow parts of our souls, while the Affirmations remind us of aspects of our True Nature that support us in our growth process. These moving Releases and Affirmations offer a profound psychological inventory of our inner pain and personal strengths."
here also is a quote from the book:
"...Once we see how much we have in common with others of our type, we can identify with our deeper self instead of the more superficial aspects of our personality. In this sense, our failures are less a measure of our own defectiveness than the mark of a soul in pain crying out through the distorted mask of personality."
"In the last analysis, the Enneagram is about self-transformation through self-transcendence. It shows us that we can be transformed if we stop identifying with our personality. We must risk creating an "opening" in ourselves that will allow something higher and more essential to touch our wounded soul and heal it. These Releases and Affirmations are offered with the hope that they will help you on your journey of inner healing. They are not the whole picture, of course--just a place to begin. Always remember, however, that when the shadows in ourselves are touched by the light of awareness, they become doors through which grace transforms our lives."
…happy perspective shifting.
Very Dear Ted,
Because we are "trapped" into seeing the world through the filters we are most comfortable with, it is necessary to know our filters well in order to step outside of them. Likewise, since we create the world we live in by what our expectations of the world are, we must first know how we define our world in order to redefine or open it to other possibilities. A while back, I encouraged you to look into what enneagram (http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/) or meyer's brigg type (http://www.personalitypathways.com/MBTI_intro.html) you fit best with, I understand that you took an online test but were at a loss as to how to best apply this knowledge. I'd encourage you to look further into the descriptions of your typology, and if your goal is ultimately to see beyond the perspective and viewpoints you generally default to by preference, try on some NLP redirections for your type. I have personally found that my worldview and perspectives have been greatly expanded by such exercises. In turn, my world has become open to more possibilities and I realize more than ever that all I seek is already at hand. Specifically, I would suggest this book to start: Enneagram Transformations by Don Richard Riso, it is simple and easy to use. Just say the transformations to yourself as meditations several times a day for several days and you are likely to feel some subtle and not so subtle changes over time. Reference this site for more: http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/books/Books_ET.asp "This book offers an answer to the question "Now that I know my type, what do I do?" it looks at the nine types from the perspective of healing and compassion. In simple language, it paints a portrait of each type’s central dilemma and provides specific Releases and Affirmations for each type as practices that can awaken us to our higher spiritual qualities. The Release guide us to awareness of the shadow parts of our souls, while the Affirmations remind us of aspects of our True Nature that support us in our growth process. These moving Releases and Affirmations offer a profound psychological inventory of our inner pain and personal strengths."
here also is a quote from the book:
"...Once we see how much we have in common with others of our type, we can identify with our deeper self instead of the more superficial aspects of our personality. In this sense, our failures are less a measure of our own defectiveness than the mark of a soul in pain crying out through the distorted mask of personality."
"In the last analysis, the Enneagram is about self-transformation through self-transcendence. It shows us that we can be transformed if we stop identifying with our personality. We must risk creating an "opening" in ourselves that will allow something higher and more essential to touch our wounded soul and heal it. These Releases and Affirmations are offered with the hope that they will help you on your journey of inner healing. They are not the whole picture, of course--just a place to begin. Always remember, however, that when the shadows in ourselves are touched by the light of awareness, they become doors through which grace transforms our lives."
…happy perspective shifting.
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