People have interesting theories.
"People think that "being crazy in love" and infatuation is an enjoyable thing, but that state of wantingness and desiringness always carries a sense of loss with it. Even when you do get what you want, you fear that you will lose it, and when it does go (which is inevitable -- Buddha's principle of impermanence), you'll inevitably feel suffering.
This comes from the ego's illusion that it has to want something in order to get it, and it is the wantingness that gets it for you. The truth is completely the opposite -- in fact, LoA and IM supporters would probably say, your wantingness is intending lack and attracting lack, and pushes it further away! The ego believes that if it surrenders the desire, then it won't get the happiness associated with fulfilling it. But in fact, by surrendering everything, we get to increasing levels of freedom, love, and happiness that doesn't depend on outside circumstances. The happiness that we projected onto the fulfillment of desire, is now permanently experienced within you at all times as your LOC (level of consciousness), as your way of life and being in the world, and you realize that it never depended on outside circumstances at all.
We see that infatuation, crushes, "being madly in love", sexual lust, etc. are all coming from the LOC of Desire, 125. This is the level of projecting your happiness onto things separate and outside of yourself, then wanting and desiring it. Happiness, fulfillment, and completeness is projected into the hypothetical future fantasy that you're seeking. There is no way to really satisfy it, because you're seeking a fantasy, an illusion, something you've projected onto the thing that doesn't really exist in reality. That's why there's all this disillusionment in relationships, in materiality, in all areas of life. We project happiness "out there", when it really exists only "in here" -- and when you do get what is "out there", you realize that happiness really isn't there at all. No matter what happens, there always remains that separation between desiringness and what is desired, and that is what is creating the sense of loss. You can try your best to close the distance between the two, but it will always be there, as a natural consequence of the lower energy fields of desire / LOC 125.
The solution, is to surrender the lower fields of consciousness, in favor of higher ones. By surrendering the energy of desiringness, we move into LOC 250, Neutrality. At that point, you're ok whether you get what you want or if you don't; it's all the same. By releasing and surrendering the emotions of desire it shouldn't be too hard to get to this place, and there is tremendous freedom. You have the choice in how you feel about it, you aren't run by infatuation anymore. If we keep surrendering the lower levels of consciousness, we eventually get to LOC 500, Love. At that point, it becomes a way of being with the person. You're at one with the experience, with the person, with life. There is no longer that desiringness for anything, and thus no separation from that which is desired -- only a sense of completion, love, and fulfillment with the experience of that person, that is unconditional and doesn't depend on anything. It's almost like you're connecting to Source through that person, but it's not coming from the person, but from within yourself, and thus there is no experience of separation, lack, or loss.
In practical terms, to surrender the lower negative energy fields, what you do is to be aware of the energy-feelingness of desire, of wantingness, of the frustration of not having what is desired, of the physical sensations of it (usually experienced in the gut or heart). And instead of resisting it or suppressing it, you just let it be there, sit with it, and keep running the energy/emotions out until it disappears. It may take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months -- but it's limited, and eventually it runs out. It's like a compressed energy reservoir of negativity, and by experiencing it out and letting it run, we decompress it. It's similar to the Sedona Method, if you've heard of it. But all you really have to do is just not resist it and surrender to the experience and the emotions as best as you can."
Right.
So, yet again, life presents a 1 millionth way to look at something.
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