Excerpt: In part one I explained why positive thinking might be harmful for your spiritual growth. Here, in the second and last part, I am detailing the alternative which goes beyond the process of thinking. It's simple but not easy. Can you forfeit the mind chatter all together and allow the true essence of creation, yourself, to come through?
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If you go out of the duality (good vs. bad; light vs. dark) you realize that the world is a harmonious system which works perfectly; that every event and experience, whether “good” or “bad”, happens appropriately. There are no mistakes and whatever happens to us is right and only leads us towards enlightenment.
Of course, this realization requires tremendous trust and a leap of faith. A big leap!
Positive thinking is likened to a flight in an air-balloon. We indeed manage to soar above the earth and to detach ourselves from the sweeping mass-consciousness; we indeed manage to become observers and to develop a perspective about the reality; we indeed can look downward and notice both the ugly and the beautiful sceneries.
While the flight in the balloon can indeed be enriching and emotional, only when we really fly high, way into space, we can see the entire globe. Only from high above we can see the whole picture, the earth in its impeccable creation. Then our soul rejoices.
The primal benefit that harmonious thinking brings is the emotional and mental ability to accept any event even the severest and most grievous. Situations like breaking up from a beloved spouse, loss of a job, car accident, financial difficulties, and even a death of a loved one, are seen suddenly in a new aura and are perceived exactly as they really are. That is, experiences that we have chosen to serve us. When we understand that we can fully accept the “bad” situations we automatically enable ourselves to change our life.
When we give up the positive-negative dichotomy we discover that the thoughts that pass through us are merely thoughts which, if left alone to freely flow, bring feelings of balance, joy, self-esteem and security. We come to this A-ha moment when we see that 90% of the thoughts that we think are not even ours. They come from other people.
When you work with your beliefs pay attention not to fall to the positive thinking attitude. It indeed has served you in the past but no longer. Make sure you do not make the effort to think “only positive”.
There is no such think as “positive thought” just as there is no such thing as “negative thought”. These are false conceptions of our minds. “Warriors of light” are also “dark warriors” . The truest way to deal with the reality is through the piercing observation of everything, without judging it as “good” or “bad” and without trying to fix it to become “positive”.
Can you stop judging? Not just other people or other events. But yourself as well.
You are not good people!
You are not bad people either!
You are who you are.
Both light and dark.
Dark is divine. Light is evil. Light is Divine. Dark is evil.
But beyond the duality both are neither.
They are only an experience.
An approach to life that addresses both sides of the experience brings the inner peace and the balance that prepare the ground for your enlightenment.
