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How to Dissolve Challenges
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Practical Tips
• That what supports inner growth, what removes
obstacles, error etc. from our path to sovereignty and freedom, what helps us perceive our original radiant nature, generally produces an agreeable, happy feeling that is not brought about at others' cost.
That what obstructs us to experience this agreeable feeling, what blocks growth and impedes the perception of our original, radiant nature, generally produces
feelings of discontent, unhappiness etc. • Any passionate - positive or negative - reaction to an
event tells us that the respective theme of life is still active, and that we - consciously or subconsciously - want further confrontation with this theme.
Attempts to ignore disagreeable experiences do not remove the irritation. This only shifts our inevitable confrontation with the respective theme into the future.
• We certainly can keep on believing that an 'inescapable
force of nature' causes distressing events we cannot possibly prevent. Yet this easily creates feelings of helplessness and anger towards this (unfair) world.
It doesn't really help the dissolution of unpleasant experiences if we add these feelings of weakness on top.
As long as we assign negative circumstances to outside causes, we block all access to its real origin. Giving up this belief opens our eyes for ways to stop recurring unpleasant experiences and feelings once and for all.
