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My analytical nature has me forever questioning EVERYTHING in my eternal quest to understand everything which hits my radar. I can get so lost in my quest to understand one thing that I totally overlook the path beneath my feet to end up tripping over obstacles in the path and/or running into walls or posts in front of my nose. I have built a hefty awareness of this psycho tick, but here in global chaos of Corona Times, it seems to be ticking with renewed vigor. The last time I failed to keep up with news in far off lands, the global powers pulled the world out from under me. 18 months later, that threat still lingers.
Today's meditation read from "Meditations for People Who Worry" was a timely reminder for me. It seems worth the added reinforcement of typing it out here.
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Understanding
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
How much emphasis we have put on "understanding"! We have felt confused and bewildered and we have believed that if we could just understand what is going on that we would be okay. We have sought and clutched on to interpretations and reasons, feeling if we just knew what was really going on or why someone behaved as they do we would be all right. Yet, when we found an explanation or interpretation or ourselves or another, the interpretation, in the long run, reallyy didn't make much of a difference in the way we felt.
Indeed, if we look carefully at what we are doing, we just might see the "understanding" actually resulted in our leaving ourselves and what we were feeling. This understanding helped us abandon ourselves. Remeber being hurt or angry and then thinking our feelings were "unjustified" when we "understood"? Our feelings just are. They will lead us to where we need to be.
Nobody ever healed by understanding.
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Open discussion. Thoughts welcome.
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.
This is just what this made me think of.
I dunno if I am way off or not.
At any rate I appreciate your sharing this,Arfie thank you.
I am a big worrier to Arf.... It makes me think of the Serenity Prayer as well.... A very wise prayer.... I will often say it.... Easier said than done... at least for myself.... It seems so simple.... I don't know where the struggle comes in.... sigh... Big hug....xo
The Serenity Prayer is a big help to me, also. I have it memorized in 2 languages and available for review in more languages than I have bothered to count. Saying it remains allot easier than living it in all my languages.
Prayers ongoing. . .
While I share your concern over tech addiction, I'm not too quick to assume those folks sharing a cell-phone lit table are ignoring each other. I know more than one couple and family who handle their domestic disputes by text. It is allot quieter and more sanitary than food fights.
Have we gotten to where cell lights have replaced candle lights?