Good advice. Can we follow it?
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In practicing the art of loving detachment toward life’s eventualities, we become aware, by and by, of a stable point within us, a point of stillness identified by some as the Observer or Witnessing Consciousness. . . in simpler terms it is the Soul.
Pure awareness is devoid of thoughts or emotions and develops in an individual through the steady practice of detachment, which allows the soul to act with loving indifference to whatever arises. When detachment occurs, there is an experience of equilibrium in mind, heart and body. In that state, solutions to life’s problems are more easily availed.
We all experience moments of detachment from time to time. Like clouds emotions come and pass away, or troubling thoughts arise and we let them go. By acknowledging the Observer in the space created, we detach from feelings and thoughts and experience a degree of equilibrium. In this state of balance, we can identify the presence of the soul and enjoy moments of real freedom. If we attach to thoughts and emotions, we lose balance.
The soul is always detached. Ever free, it witnesses all and is never trapped in the web of life.
The teachings on detachment have been given over the ages to all who would listen and follow its advice. When we do, we begin to understand that indulgence in life’s activities creates a living hell in one form or another. Hell begins when the mind and heart are attached to an overwhelming desire for something in this world. If the desire is not satisfied, a feeling of unrest arises and nothing else seems to matter. These bouts of stagnation need to be understood for what they are. . . illusions.
May we learn to practise the spirit of detachment at the level of the soul—the witnessing consciousness—wisely refusing to indulge in activities that lead from one point of unhappiness to another, and so learn to move within the web of life freely.
Freedom is not found in attachments to things, to religion or politics, philosophies or ideologies. It exists in the art of living by the light and love of the soul’s detachment.
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In the awareness of our true Self, guilt and misunderstanding recede. We realise the Self is ever free and that the cause of all the mayhem are forces of destructive energy which suck the consciousness into storms of chaos and confusion.
The feeling of detachment is like rising in the small hours of the morning, surrounded by tranquility and calm. So it will be when we experience the realization that we are not the creation or the universe but a completely separate spark of Love, witnessing God’s work with serenity and detachment. We are not this or that, we are witnesses of life. In this understanding, we become free and light.
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