01-19-2011, 08:31 PM
Being at peace within yourself, and without unnecessary attachment, being conscious of what and where and when, and your actions... will allow you to exist without being affected by others negatively.
I have been working on this myself for a long time, and I am a lot further along than I was, but every so often I look at what I am doing and realize I am being "unconscious" again. Getting angry, negative, complaining, judgmental, critical. Then I try to bring myself back to center and disconnect from all that negativity.
Being at peace does seem to make you very passive, but it is not genuinely passivity. It is non-affectation; that is, not being affected by, drawn into, the negativity around you. The stimulus to response isn't there, so you don't act on it. Just as you don't react visually to infrared light, or ultraviolet light, because your naked eye does not perceive them.
The initial result of disconnecting and consciousness is a state of lack of action to much of what was react-able stimulus, so it seems more passive. But once you have mastered disconnection from it, you begin to realize that there are entirely new worlds of things that you can now interact with, and act on. It just takes time to see them at first because we are always so used to the old way, the negativity, and seeing only that.
There's nothing that says you cannot be active within the world while being unaffected the the negativity of the world around you. It's just a stage in which you are learning to think, see and experience the world in a new and different way.
I have been working on this myself for a long time, and I am a lot further along than I was, but every so often I look at what I am doing and realize I am being "unconscious" again. Getting angry, negative, complaining, judgmental, critical. Then I try to bring myself back to center and disconnect from all that negativity.
Being at peace does seem to make you very passive, but it is not genuinely passivity. It is non-affectation; that is, not being affected by, drawn into, the negativity around you. The stimulus to response isn't there, so you don't act on it. Just as you don't react visually to infrared light, or ultraviolet light, because your naked eye does not perceive them.
The initial result of disconnecting and consciousness is a state of lack of action to much of what was react-able stimulus, so it seems more passive. But once you have mastered disconnection from it, you begin to realize that there are entirely new worlds of things that you can now interact with, and act on. It just takes time to see them at first because we are always so used to the old way, the negativity, and seeing only that.
There's nothing that says you cannot be active within the world while being unaffected the the negativity of the world around you. It's just a stage in which you are learning to think, see and experience the world in a new and different way.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
