The only way you can go the root of your emotions is by simply
being. Through experiencing total awareness.
A close friend pointed out, after reading my
blogpost of yesterday, that while it is easy to suggest that we must uproot
whatever causes debilitating emotions in us, it is very difficult to actually
do that. Indeed there are no methods. But uprooting the cause of anger, fear,
anxiety, worry, jealousy, grief or guilt, from within us, is not entirely
difficult. If you learn to be aware, through consistent training of your mind,
you can go to the cause of your emotions and uproot them!
The human mind thrives in the past and in the
future. It keeps on reminding you that a worry of an unborn future is more
important than the present moment. It drags you to bemoan a dead past instead
of being present in the now. This is why you are continuously trapped with all
these emotions. Awareness means being present in the now. This doesn’t mean
anger will not arise in you. It will. But your awareness will remind you that
being angry is futile. Because your anger is directed at what has happened. It
is directed at a past – which is over, which is dead. So, you realize the
futility of your being angry. It is the same with fear. You fear someone or
something because you are afraid you will lose someone or something. Fear
concerns a loss most of the time. Your awareness will help you understand that fear
of a loss is inconsequential in the endgame. Because anyway when you depart,
you will go empty-handed. When you are aware you will realize that there is no
loss and no gain in Life. Everything is just an experience.
Awareness is a state of non-doing. In
awareness, you lose all subjectivity. There is no witness, only witnessing
remains. Since you drop the ego, the mind becomes powerless. You are now
witnessing each of your emotions, and in the larger, expanded consciousness,
you are realizing how futile they are. That’s really how you uproot these
emotions and live freely. This requires continuous effort and training of the
mind. Over a period of time, being totally aware,
simply being, becomes your natural state. That’s when you will experience total
bliss!
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