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Do you feel like you’re stuck in a rut? Do you have things that you’re trying to change but you just can’t seem to change them? Well, the thing that may keep you stuck in a rut maybe all those material things that you surround yourself with. This is no joke, and I have experienced it myself over the last few weeks.The Chinese have a science called Feng Shui, and most people think of that as the way to arrange your house and the things in your house for the best look and energy flow. There’s really a lot more to it.
The fact is, you’re constantly interacting with all the things that you surround yourself with. There’s no need to get metaphysical about this, since few people would argue that at a minimum, everyone has psychological interactions with the things that are around them on a regular basis. For example, when people buy a new car, hardly anyone says, “that is the car.” most people say, space “that is my car,” when you think about it, that means that there’s a definite psychological interaction between the person and the car. This isn’t rocket science.
So think about all the subconscious interactions that go on between you and the stuff you own. They are endless. We are in the process of moving, and that gave me the chance to go into the basement and garage and start rummaging through all the things that had permanent residence there. I literally found things that hadn’t been touched in 10 years. I kept asking myself why in the world we were hanging onto that stuff since we weren’t using it. Of course, the old standby rationalization that you might use it someday was one of the first things that came to mind, and that literally was one of the reasons that we continue to keep some things. But I think there’s another, more subtle reason.
Having familiar stuff around you keeps up the illusion of permanence. With familiar stuff in familiar places everything is going to stay the same, and I think it’s human nature, particularly in the security oriented culture, to resist change. But this can get out of hand. For example, I know someone who’s been going through major life changes, and part of those changes included selling her horses. The crazy thing was that after she sold her horses she wouldn’t let go of her saddle or the bridles. Think about that. She held on to the saddle thinking that you might use it someday, and that kept her attached to the idea of owning her horses. So, she would go in and look at the saddle and experience ongoing depression over the sale of her horses instead of just letting the horses go. As soon as she made a clean break and actually gave away the saddle and bridles for depression started to go away too.
When I noticed this in my friend, I decided to rent a dumpster and put it in the front driveway. Over the last week I’ve been throwing things away left and right. Yes, I’ve also given things to charity. What I’ve noticed, as that as I’ve thrown away the things that are not critical to my day-to-day living, I’ve experienced a tremendous feeling of liberation. When you think about it, it is literally because the psychological bonds all that stuff are being broken. The Hindus have an interesting concept called being bound to earth with a golden chain. It means that all those material things are the golden chain because it’s really neat to have, but they tie you down spiritually and psychologically. Until you get away from them, you’ll never soar the way you’re supposed to.
So, if you find yourself in any kind of rut like not being able to lose weight you want to lose, like not finding that job you need to find, like being in a relationship that doesn’t seem to be working, or anything else that you’ve tried to change over and over and it just doesn’t seem to be working… Well, try changing your environment by rearranging and disposing of physical stuff.
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We are the world,
We are the children.
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let’s start giving
We can’t go on, pretending day by day that someone somehow will soon make a change.
What you think and what you say is entertainment for yourself and others. What you do makes the world better for yourself and others.
Please take a moment to go to www.world25.org and contribute to Haiti relief. DO IT NOW! There is still massive suffering there. One way the shift in consciousness occurs is to abandon your own cherished opinions and give to others with no expectation of anything in return.
I’ve been reading a few comments, and, frankly this has inspired me to write an addendum to The Value of Nothing and the Wisdom of the Bodhisattvas. One of my favorite movies is Oh God You Devil staring George Burns who plays both God and the Devil. One scene where someone is interviewing the devil goes like this…
Interviewer: What is your greatest invention?
The Devil: Language
Another approach to that concept was provided by on of my teachers who said, “Modern man has lost the ability to distinguish reality from symbolic abstractions.” Let me provide an example.
Most people would say that a flower is a real thing. Yet, if you get a room full of people together and ask them to write down a description of a flower you will get some that say “a plant”, others that say “a rose”, others that say “a tulip”, and so forth. So really, flower is really an abstraction for a category of things. It is not a real thing itself. What about a “rose”? If you go through the same exercise you will get “red roses”, “yellow roses”, “bush roses”, “climbing roses”, and so forth. So rose, as real as it sounds, is another symbolic abstraction. Well, you can keep taking this to the next level and the next level until it starts to drive you crazy. What about things like love, freedom, conservative, liberal, and all the other similar abstractions we find in our language. I suspect that no two people agree on precisely what any of those terms mean.
Let’s shift for a moment to human beings. When you think about it, all human beings have the same real concerns. They want to eat, they want to have a place to sleep, they want to feel safe, they want to have companionship. Whether you are liberal, conservative, American, Russian, Arabic, Christian, Jew, Socialist, Lawyer, Doctor, or Indian Chief, your basic needs are the same as other the needs of other people. That is what is real and that’s an extremely important to point. When it comes to the realities of living, all people — past, present, and future — face the same issues.
Yet, throughout history certain individuals have discovered that they can promote their own self interests by creating linguistic abstractions that obscure the sameness of all people and, instead create divisions. By creating the abstractions that mentally create the “good guys” and the “bad guys” somebody ends up with more money or power. Yet, that is precisely the illusion that many religions talk about.
So, the question is whether it is a higher value for everyone to focus on the abstract divisiveness in order to get what’s yours or to focus on the sameness and try to ensure that all people get their real human needs met.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
Blessed are the peacemakers
Jesus clearly gives us the commandment to focus on the sameness of our neighbors and not on imagined diversity. That is our challenge in making the word better because it’s critical for us to understand that can only happen if it’s better for everyone. It is, again, the Bodhisattva Vow. Returning to the so-called “free market” value system, keep in mind that our cultural moral ideal overturned the tables of the money changers and said, “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” Enough said.
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