Transcending the emotional system

[aetheroar]

@sara373 No worries, hope it can shed some light on things for you.

Correct, in the present moment, it is the resistance to how things ARE that is causing the suffering. This means that you’ve carried a belief system into the present (in the egoic mind) and it’s overlayed onto reality. So it goes:

situation/object > through lens of beliefs > subject/ego

If we can learn to arrive completely present to the moment, we leave beliefs behind. Everything that seems to be happening behind the eyes is illusion, everything in front of them (in light / en-light-ened) is Truth.

Tools for this: insight into no-self can lead to a full collapse of judements if you truly realize it fully. Judgements go deep, even things such as “tree” can be considered judgements. That which we call a tree is not a tree, because it is fully one with existence. Calling it a tree is fine, but the truth must be seen more strongly than the label. If our eyes or mind pick it out as an object and name it, we’re already operating out of the light (subject-object dualism)

That which happens behind the eyes of someone “else” is just as illusiory as what happens behind yours, and neither you nor they had anything to do with what beliefs were given to them. One can only act on what they “know”, so nobody ever knew any better and our judgement on them only makes the situation worse.

Full 100% acceptance and insight into how things truly are will hopefully lead one to the understanding: all is One and nothing has any inherent existence beyond how it connects to everything else.

The only thing that ever occurs occurs at the present moment. Anything we carry into the present moment that seems to be behind the eyes is going to cloud our presence. Every happening that triggers you is an offer from Spirit to release your conditionings and hold compassion for whatever has arisen and all involved.

I would also recommend, if the space feels open to it, to open a discussion when triggers happen so you can understand that it’s not personal.

If there’s no resistance and no belief systems, it’s literally just love. Love is the feeling of when you occupy the space between rather than the space behind.