Lost Within its Own Creation

Written by Mathew Naismith

"For a consciousness existing in deliberate ignorance, as people like you and I know, we are not doing all that bad, probably because wisdom still prevails within such a consciousness. Of course witch hunts often dispel wisdom and awareness within an ignorant consciousness. It is what it is Susan.

I was recently speaking face on with other people about human consciousness recently, in how human consciousness has not evolved over thousands of years. Instead of throwing rocks and sticks at each other, we are now throwing bombs and missiles at each other, not much of a conscious advancement. In truth, the way we use science, energy period, has taken us further back in evolution. The New Dark Ages isn't of religious content or influence, it is of science and materialism. As of any ideology or ism within a consciousness that desires to stay ignorant, ideologies and isms will naturally be abused.

It is natural for an ignorant consciousness to become abusive towards energy, while being deliberately ignorant to all else that doesn't serve its desires. Of course it is not natural for an aware consciousness to be abusive towards energy as a whole, this is our dilemma Susan. Of course it is only a dilemma if we allow it to be, for it is what it is, a consciousness lost within its own creation.

It is funny you brought this topic up as I was going to write about this topic."      

I often come across people on the net that manipulate and deceive to defame or stupefy their opponent in a discussion. This is often deceptively accomplished by segregating an opposing argument to sound completely different to what the opposing argument is being presented as. As it is for a consciousness that uses bombs and missiles, people who manipulate to purposely deceive are known to be highly intelligent!! To someone like me, this is highly bewildering as I could not think of anything more unintelligent.  

I am completely perplexed to what we call intelligent these days, where wisdom has no place. Would have a wise consciousness created Fukushima or created an energy they are unable to properly control and clean up when things go wrong in the first place?

This is sad. It is hard for a lot of people in the world to remotely imagine a consciousness that works in unison with energy as a whole, instead of against it. The reality this kind of consciousness would have created is simply beyond a lot of people's imagination, for human consciousness is conditioned to abusing energy.

Sadly, to a lot of people today, what I have written here is simply negative, just not sure when the truth became something negative and manipulation, deceit and using energy abusively become a sign of intelligence!!

People like me don't look upon humanity to find a right and wrong, negative or positive, we instead objectively observe humanity to observe the truth of humanity the way it is, not the way we would desire to observe it or it to be.

A consciousness doesn't become lost within its own creation by accident, it is orchestrated, in other words planned and controlled, often in great detail, very much like a musical arrangement for performance by an orchestra. A consciousness has to become conditioned to abuse to abuse energy, otherwise a consciousness will naturally exist within and in unison with energy as a whole.

The Very Real Untouchables

Written by Mathew Naismith

When we humanly think of the untouchables, we often think of people in authority who can do as they will to their environment. This includes looking down at other people as of a lesser value or quality for what ever reason. These reasons can vary from material wealth and power to spirituality, where negatives and pain are avoided at all cost, even at the cost of other people and the environment as a whole. How many spiritually aware people today look down at the negatives as of a lesser value or quality than the positives? Of course when you look down at these negatives as being of a lesser value, you also look down at the people expressing these negatives as of a lesser person than yourself.

As you become aware, you actually become more active within a negative environment, not less. You don't become less active within a negative environment because you actually observe less negativity, not more negativity the more you become aware of an environment. I will explain.

A truly aware consciousness doesn't see humans in pain or in trauma, it is simply observed as an experience created by a consciousness being unaware or deliberately ignorant. You can only experience pain as pain when a consciousness is unaware. It is like how we today are highly abusive to energy; this is instead of using energy in unison and harmony with energy itself. Humans often make the mistake and think that energy itself is lifeless, even when a seemingly lifeless energy created us and the universe to begin with. Because after so many centuries human consciousness as whole is still living in ignorance to energy itself, and how to use this energy, we still exist in pain and of creating pain for other people and the environment as a whole.

How many psychotherapists and Hindu gurus, for example, live in harmony within a disharmonious (negative) environment because they are more aware, either spiritually and/or mentally? Pain and trauma are simply observed as a creation of ignorance, of course the only way to relieve a consciousness from such abuse, is to awaken a consciousness to what is creating their pain and trauma to begin with. You should be getting some idea now of what I mean by the real untouchables.

Multinationals see themselves as untouchables, the ability to do as one desires unto an environment at will. To a consciousness that is not aware, multinationals are untouchables but to the real untouchables, multinationals are highly vulnerable, probably more vulnerable than most other people for their energy is sucked off of other sources of energy. Any energy form that relies on other energy forms to exist is indeed highly vulnerable to a consciousness that is more aware. Yes, if you're positive energy exists only because negative energies exist, your positive energy is sucked off of negative energies by staying ignorant to these negative energies. It is a strange way to become and stay positive, avoid negatives at all cost, even at the cost of other people and the environment!!

Real untouchables observe far less negatives to avoid, in actuality real untouchables don't observe or judge what is and isn't negative period, they simply observe a conscious state trying to exist in ignorance. To the real untouchables, there is no pain, only of what ignorance creates. Make no mistake, the ignorant will indeed feel pain for this is a natural part of a consciousness existing in ignorance. This is why the real untouchables don't interfere in such a reality based on pain that has been naturally created by ignorance. It is natural for a consciousness to experience this kind of pain in such a state of ignorance.

So what can we do to live more in harmony within such a reality?

- Avoid abusing energy period, this also means trying to avoid existing off of other energy forms in disharmony. Try to work in harmony and in unison with energy, all energy, in the absence of the exclusion of energies that don't fulfil our desires.

- Don't try to become positive through the ignorance of negative energy. All this does is give negative energy more room to expand as we are seeing at present.                       

-Try to avoid judging or simply observing an unaware or ignorant state of consciousness as being negative. An unaware state of consciousness will create pain and suffer more pain but the more aware a consciousness becomes, in any environment, the less pain one will feel.

- So many spiritually aware people are feeling all these negative vibrations these days, there are so many more negative vibrations to avoid these days to stay positive!! This simply shows people like me how unaware we are becoming, not more aware, for only in ignorance can so much pain be created and experienced (felt). This doesn't mean we shouldn't try to avoid being controlled by abusive energy forms, in actuality avoiding these kinds of energy takes away their power and control, but at no time stay deliberately ignorant to these types of energy especially to fulfil your desires.

 - I really do mean this, in a more aware state you actually should feel less negatives vibrations and pain in any environment, not more. In saying this, pain is our friend. When we are mentally strained, our minds make us aware, through mental trauma, to what pain has been creating. It is the same with physical injury when pain tells us of the injury incurred. The pain we feel today holistically is telling us of the injury to human consciousness. Pain is no longer simply critically judged as being negative the more we become aware, therefore the less pain you should feel/experience.

- I have said this a number of times before, be careful of people who teach through the lack of actual life experiences themselves, people who plagiarize their experiences through other people's experiences. Reading books and workshops are of other people's experiences and is most often manipulated to fulfil a certain desired result. Try to listen to the people who have experienced pain and trauma and who have overcome insurmountable obstacles.

- Lastly, try to accept that a consciousness existing in ignorance will naturally create an abusive existence. Pain is a natural part of a consciousness existing in ignorance, of course becoming aware of what the pain is telling us can be a daunting process. We expect a consciousness deliberately existing in ignorance to become instantly aware of the pain it creates for itself!! As of the Hindu guru or psychotherapist, for example, be patient and particularly impartial.                     

2018!!

Written by Mathew Naismith

So what happened to all the predicted positive loving spiritual manifestations once again, in a year of predicted great spiritual evolutional change? Bewildering isn't it? 

Firstly, try to understand, it is not all about the human self becoming enlightened or becoming ascended in some way. As a lot of people say, it is a the soul having a human experience, which means life is really about the souls transition, not necessarily the human self's transition. Don't get me wrong, the two can go hand in hand, meaning, as the soul becomes more enlightened (aware), so will the human self. The problem is, most often the human self will become more unaware, not more aware. We often expect and even demand that we feel good all the time, for this is what spirituality is about!!  

This expectation is simply created when we start to feel good in a chaotic abusive reality. Because we start to feel good through becoming more aware, we then think this is what spirituality is about. We then deliberately ignore all the deemed negatives in the world to feel even better, for only through doing this can we feel even better. This is while other people in the world are far worse off, mainly because they are being ignored themselves or their situation is deemed too negative to become aware or stay aware of.

If you look upon the abuse in the world and all you see and feel is negative vibrations, as opposed to your own vibrations, this is anything but positive, of love and light or of God. How many people look upon the violent destructive sun as simply being negative, a negative we must ignore to be positive? If anyone in the world is suffering even more because we want to be positive, I wouldn't myself call this positive. As I stated in my last post, often highly abusive energy forms will often deceive to obtain what they desire for themselves. This often entails to deceive people into feeling good while being abused and the abused eventually becoming abusive themselves. Ignoring the negatives in the world is highly abusive to energy as a whole, especially if this is done to simply make ourselves feel even better and better.

So being positive is ignoring all the suffering in the world so we can feel even more positive, this is so we can manifest a more positive loving reality!! This really makes no sense to someone like me.

As of the sun, that is far more violent and destructive than man is at present, don't look at man as being negative, look at man as simply lost within his own creation, for he really knows not what he does. How often do you look at a person lost in the bush, (forest or wilderness), as simply being negative? So why express disdain towards the human collective consciousness lost within its own creation? When you go into the bush and get lost, you have created your own environment to become lost in; the collective human consciousness is no different to this.

People like me don't expect or demand to feel good, however, we also don't expect to feel bad either for there are no expectations or demands. Not an easy thing to express in a reality such as this, where we expect or even demand so much from our environment. If you had any idea what actually exists as a whole, you wouldn't expect too much from a reality such as our present reality. In actuality, you would go with the flow more and not critically judge so much of this reality as being simply negative. Just by the reactions of people towards this reality, people like me know how aware or unaware people truly are.

Energy; such as our environment, which includes our body and mind and the universe as a whole, is not there to serve our desires or to be abused, it is there to simply be experienced. Of course abusing this energy will create a different experience than working in unison and in harmony with this energy, it is all apart of creation.

So what actually occurred in 2018, who benefited from 2018 spiritual manifestations?

Countries like Yemen and Palestine don't think much of what spiritual manifestations have created in 2018, in saying this, multinationals, Arabia and Israel certainly benefited by these manifestations. This reminds me of the time when certain North American Indians got together to pray and chant (manifest) for peace, they were of course massacred by a Christian cultured civilised people!!

These Christian cultured civilised people also saw themselves of being of love and light, a civilized people as opposed to a barbaric (negative) people trying to pray and chant for peace and the acceptance of being of equal quality. It is not the first time a certain group of people have deemed everything not of themselves as simply being negative!!

In 20189, try to stay away from the deceit of everything not of yourself is negative, therefore suffering should be ignored at all cost to create our own perceived and desired reality.

This is funny, I am an advocate against abuse, but I don't critically judge abuse as being simply negative, end of story, to manifest my own desired reality.......          

Demonic Possession of a Collective Consciousness!!

Written by Mathew Naismith

How ridiculous is it to even consider writing about demonic possessions, especially of a collective consciousness.

Consider this, how many people in the world today are possessed or obsessed with materialism, where materialism even comes before the love of their family members? In truth, material wealth and power even comes before the health of the environment we rely on for our existence. To someone like me, this is astounding that such a self-proclaimed intelligent species could act in such a way.

To be of a demonic or evil energy force, such a consciousness needs to live in ignorance and the more ignorant the consciousness is, the more demonic or abusive this kind of consciousness will be upon other energy forms. Considering that a lot of the elite of today live off of sick dying people, or, people they have enslaved to the current system through dept, it is obvious to people like me that the collective human consciousness is indeed influenced and controlled by demonic or abusive energy forms. Demonic to someone like me simply means a consciousness that is highly abusive to energy period. Indeed, how many of us are possessed or obsessed at present, to the extent of accepting that other people in power make other people sick to live off of? When it gets to this stage of the evolution of a consciousness, where the people being abused accept being abused in almost every way, there is only one way this kind of collective consciousness can go.   

I recently watched a classic movie with Gregory Peck playing the main part in the movie Mirage. In one seen they looked down upon the people as being like ants or cattle, to be used and abused at will by people in power. This is nothing new in human history, which shows how far we haven't evolved or become aware from a state of ignorance. This is the way energy works, ignorance creates an abuse and destruction of energy where awareness creates quite the opposite. Make no mistake though; awareness can indeed be used in ignorance, where awareness can be used upon itself through deceit and manipulation. Look at how religion and science have and are being used, usually to serve the elite resulting in the endless abuse of religion and science, in fact the abuse of isms and ideologies period. I would myself, in this case, call a consciousness this abusive to energy period demonic or simply ignorant to itself.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_possession

Extract: Obsessions and possessions of the devil are placed in the rank^{[further explanation needed]} of apparitions of the evil spirit among humans.^{[further explanation needed]} It is obsession when the demon acts externally against the person whom it besets, and possession when it acts internally, agitates them, excites their ill humor, makes them utter blasphemy, speak tongues they allegedly have never learned, reveals allegedly unknown secrets to them, and apparently inspires them with obscure knowledge of philosophy or theology.^{[A 1]}

Obsession; where the abusers of energy are an external force to what is being abused, this is until the abused or obsessed become possessed themselves and become abusers of energy themselves. In this case possession becomes an internal influence, not an external influence such as in obsession. The funny thing is, in psychology all our demons comes from within, even though a lot of our demons come from external influences that cause us trauma for instance. Yes, any demonic possession is of an internal occurrence but often influenced by external sources. Either religiously or psychologically, we allow these demons to control us from within in relation to possessions. This of course often occurs from being obsessed, an external influence, to being possessed, an internal influence.  

https://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/are-we-possessed

Extract: To condescendingly think that we, as modern-day, rational people, are too sophisticated to believe in something as primitive as demons is to have fallen under the spell of the very evil spirits we are imagining are nonexistent. What the ancients call demons are a psychic phenomena which compel us to act out behaviors contrary to our best intentions. To quote Jung, “…the psychic conditions which breed demons are as actively at work as ever. The demons have not really disappeared but have merely taken on another form: they have become unconscious psychic forces.”

“Possession,” according to Jung is “a primordial psychic phenomenon” that “denotes a peculiar state of mind characterized by the fact that certain psychic contents, the so-called complexes, take over the control of the total personality in place of the ego, at least temporarily, to such a degree that the free will of the ego is suspended.”

Considering my own limited experiences in this area, where exceptionally abusive energy sources of conscious energy indeed exist. If anyone was to experience the full energy field of this kind of destructive energy source, your hair would instantly go white, what ever age you were.

Is this kind of source of energy this frightening? Not at all, in fact all I can do is smile. Like the multinationals, the only energy demonic entities can harness is through us, we are their energy, take that away, they have no control and power. I also laugh at any energy form that is so ignorant; for only through ignorance can such an energy form exist. Yes, this kind of demonic energy lives off of any form that is of awareness, unless that awareness is beyond their control and manipulation. This is why a true sense of love and light, unconditional love, faith in God/Jesus, etc, is often out of the reach of this kind of demonic or abusive energy.

However, what would a demonic energy source want you to do in relation to energy period? Stay ignorant to anything remotely negative or threatening to ourselves feeling good!! Any true positive person, unconditionally loving person, a person of love and light, etc, would face the negative face on without fear and not only desire to be of what these demonic energy sources have created. How many people in the world are now obsessed by what materialism has created for their pleasure? How pleasurable has spirituality now become to a lot of people today? Of course the only way to fulfil these pleasurable desires is to stay ignorant to anything remotely deemed negative. At all cost stay ignorant to the negatives in the world, through this a reality of love and light will be created!! Nothing that is abusive to energy through ignorance will manifest a non-abusive reality.

My advice in this case is to stay away from anything that influences you to become even more ignorant, for only in ignorance can a consciousness become abusive to energy. Make no mistake; this kind of demonic or abusive energy source is highly manipulative and deceptive. If something in this reality, controlled and manipulated demonic sources of energy, fulfils all your desires, please think again. Anything that makes you even more ignorant to the present circumstances is, in my mind, demonic or abusive to energy by nature, try to avoid this at all cost.

How do people like me cope in facing the so-called negatives face on? We simply stay connected to a truer state of awareness, this can either be through the perception of love and light, God, Jesus, certain kinds of science, quietness or stillness or what ever, as long as it is about being aware in the absence of fear and bias. As I have explained before, stillness, where the motions of desires and ego are absent, is of a pure aware state, of God if you like, for only through unawareness, a less Godly state, can motion exist.

Note: I usually don't call these highly absuive energy sources demonic, for within this explanation of this kind of energy source they gain so much power from. Yes, they want to be put down and denounced as being negative as any negative source of energy does. By simply avoiding or staying ignorant to this kind of energy, gives this energy more power and control over us, not less, as our present circumstances are proving. This kind of energy is simply an abusive energy living in ignorance to itself. This explanation works really well if you are particularly aware of your whole self in some way. They don't like this explanation of themselves one bit.......                                    

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/04/health/exorcism-doctor/index.html

Extract: Yet today, Gallagher has become something else: the go-to guy for a sprawling network of exorcists in the United States. He says demonic possession is real. He's seen the evidence: victims suddenly speaking perfect Latin; sacred objects flying off shelves; people displaying "hidden knowledge" or secrets about people that they could not have possibly have known.

The Serenity of Oneness

Written by Mathew Naismith

Oneness simply means to be united as one, where all different motions of energy are seen as energy, no more, no less, even though there are infinite forms of energy in motion. Sounds strange doesn't it? Add to this that the more aware we become, the less of motion we become, it is then quite understandable why the ego at times is unable to even comprehend a state of oneness. This is strange to some one like me, even a true state of serenity can be incomprehensible to the ego.

Of course the more of oneness we become, the less of the ego we are expressive of. This doesn't mean that the ego becomes less worthy to the egoless self, it simply means that the ego isn't the be and end all, where the ego is the primary source of existence. In a state of oneness, there is no ultimate state, even a state of oneness isn't seen as an ultimate state. You can probably understand why I headed this post the serenity of oneness, where there is no ultimate state therefore there is no desire to be of some kind of ultimate state, just serenity or stillness/motionlessness. Yes, that's correct, the more of motionlessness we become, the more of the egoless self we become but the more we will go with the flow of what is, for only the ego desires not to be expressive of the ego, motion, time, separation.

Oneness, as of enlightenment, unconditional love, a pure state of awareness or being one with God, etc, can't be desired. It is a state that simply occurs through seeking but seeking without a desired outcome. You even come to a point in awareness where you no longer seek; this is often experienced as a state of serenity.

The ego may think that to be more aware, the more we are thinking therefore the more of motion we become, not less.

Awareness is not like knowledge, in that knowledge has to be sought out through a desire. Awareness simply occurs without effort, the only effort needed is by the ego to let go of desires therefore a perceived outcome. Sounds like a lot of effort but it's truly not, effort expended is simply a perception the ego has to become aware that we as a whole are not just of the ego. Of course you cannot be of oneness without the ego or egoless self, in other words desiring to be of one in the absence of the other. Oneness, the egoless self, desires not to be of one over and above the other for there is no other. All this means is that motion and motionless, ego and agelessness, time and timelessness, etc, is seen as one organism, even though each part of the organism is different to the other, it is still a depiction of a singular organism. Yes, everything is depicted as a singular organism, even, like cancer of the body, can work against the organism itself, for only the ego desires to separate itself from what is not desired. Yes, even while becoming aware, our egos will try to desire being just of the egoless self and not the ego, denouncing the ego as being negative or simply an illusion.

Indeed, a lot of people can experience serenity through a perception of God, for the perception of God gives the ego a depiction of oneness. Even to an ex-atheist and non-religious person, the perception of God has value. Make no mistake, just because certain religious groups and churches have abused religious ideologies for their own desires, doesn't mean that religion has no value. Like any ideology or ism, if used in harmony with energy as a whole, all that can come from this is serenity and a sense of oneness with all.

We don't only abuse religious ideologies either; we have abused science and philosophy and used them to fulfil our desires as well on a huge scale. Yes, even philosophical ideologies are being abused. I recently had an interaction with a person interested in philosophy. Philosophy to them was primarily about truth, of course with further studies, I showed this person that philosophy is simply about forever seeking truth, not of truth. Considering that philosophy is as quoted from a dictionary, "A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school", you wonder where philosophy is primary about truth, full stop. Yes, we so often abuse energy like this to fulfil our desires, make no mistake, isms and ideologies are an energy form that we can either abuse or work in unison with.

If we worked in unison with energy, energy in motion or not, serenity would just occur without effort. Yes, even energy in motion can create a sense of serenity if this energy is not abused to simply appease the desires of the ego. What occurs, and quite naturally, the less we abuse energy as a whole, the more of oneness, or if you like, God, we become. Indeed, the more abusive a religious sect or church is, the less of God they become. The more we abuse energy, the less of oneness and the sense of serenity we become of.

My ego would like to see in the new year that we disdain from abusing energy, but my egoless self says, "What will be will be, just go with the flow of what is." I am both my ego and egoless self so I will go with the flow of what is, only if my ego is unable to influence our abuse of energy. I suppose like Confucius, I will try to influence energy to work in unison with itself instead of against itself till my days end. In the end though, what will be, will be..........                                     

Have a blessed and blissful new year, I really hope all goes well for you on a global scale.

Love,

Mathew    

                            

Eastern and Western Philosophy

Written by Mathew Naismith

Stoicism is of Western philosophy where Zen is of Eastern philosophy, both philosophies are of a simular teaching, an indifference to pleasure or pain. All this means is that there is no desire of pain or pleasure, especially of pleasure in counteraction to pain for there is no balance created in such reactions. Yes, from imbalances a reality based on imbalances can be created where pleasure is intensely desired and often vigorously sought. This reminds me of the Roman Empire and the present Westernised Empire, where pleasure is vigorously sought and desired over all else.  

Both the Western philosophies of Stoicism and the Eastern philosophies of Zen are not of faith, even though Zen is of intuitiveness rather than reasoning as of Stoicism. Of course in saying that these philosophies are not of faith, one has to have faith in philosophies for philosophies to have any value. No matter what the teachings are, faith is needed in the teachings themselves for the teachings to have value and substance to begin with.

How many of us have faith in reasoning, where our reasoning is limited to what we are aware of at the time. We can only reason to the extent of our awareness, of course this is where philosophies like Zen come into there own, where intuition takes over where reasoning has left off. The same is with Abrahamic religions, where reasoning is limited to what we are aware of to what Abrahamic religions are not limited to. Religions period give us a sense and even an awareness beyond of what reasoning is limited to. In a lot of cases, reasoning is limited to materialism or three dimensional aspects. 

Basically, philosophies of Stoicism are limited to a reasoning process; this at no time makes philosophies like stoicism irrelevant. As what is taught through the teachings of stoicism, it is a teaching of an indifference to pleasure or pain, where pain or pleasure is not sought but simply occurs. In truth, teachings like Zen and Stoicism condition us to lesson the influence of pain thus often giving us more pleasure in any circumstance. At no time is pain or pleasure sought within these teachings, but most often pleasure can be the outcome of these teachings. Simply, it is what it is, no more, no less.

https://medium.com/@AlextheYounger/stoic-zen-10-crucial-life-lessons-from-ancient-eastern-and-western-philosophy-401d4f2ac646

Extract: Alan Watts has an interesting take on an old, provoking thought-experiment: he asks you to imagine if you could ask God any question. You may ask, “what is the meaning of life?” God would simply reply, “the question makes no sense, you are asking what is the meaning of meaning. It is only you that can create meaning in this world.”

Disappointed in this answer, you may question further, “what is the question I should ask then?” Presumably, God would smile, and answer, “Ah, so you do want a problem?”

The simple fact of the matter is that nothing is out of place. It is simply human nature to create problems to solve.

Problems and dilemmas are pain creating, this is why we ask questions that are related to pain and don't ask questions that are not related to pain. Considering that human consciousness is conditioned to suffering pain, no wander we ask such questions when the answer is obvious to a person not conditioned to pain.

Don't get me wrong here, most often we will learn to deal with pain when in pain, pain is simply part of the process of not being in pain, but only if we learn to deal with pain instead of suffering or having a desire to escape from pain. To desire to escape from pain is a creation of pain for pain has created such desires, try to remember this. What human consciousness is conditioned to, is to suffer from pain instead of dealing with pain. However, imagine if the allied forces in World War two ran away from the pain of the axis forces instead of dealing with this pain, far more pain would have been inflicted or suffered. Of cause what created this pain to begin with was the conditioning to pain, otherwise Hitler would have stopped at the pleasure he gave to his fellow countrymen.  

In dealing with pain, at no time expect or desire not to be in pain, as the philosophy of Zen and Stoicism teach, an indifference to pleasure or pain, where desire has no place, even of the desire of pleasure over pain. You must be careful here though, that you don't seek or desire pain over pleasure, pain will naturally come when a lesson needs to be learnt as of our present reality. Yes, I have observed this myself, where people seek (desire) pain to learn from, avoid seeking pain for this reason as Buddha discovered.

Yes, we will suffer pain of a lost one or of being abused, what is the lesson to be learnt in this?

In the case of a lost one, to learn to live on after such a loss, even to a greater extent without feeling guilty of doing so; to learn that your life goes on and so does theirs. I often live for them as well which makes life more fulfilling for me.

As of abuse or neglect, don't try to escape this pain or desire or expect not to be in pain. The desire to feel pleasure again gives the pain more credence, more power and control over you. It is what it is and move on from this. I know of a person who was raped in their own house, every little noise in the house now utterly terrifies them. You must learn to have an indifference to pain as well as pleasure, anything else is an imbalance and of all imbalances, pain is created. Become aware that all imbalances create circumstances of the abuse of energy as a whole. To deny yourself the freedom from pain and pleasure is an abuse of energy caused by an imbalance.

In pain, I don't desire or expect pleasure but I also don't desire or expect to suffer from pain either. There is a neutral ground that can be created under any circumstance, where energy is influenced in harmony with. I could not think of anything more beautiful, accepting, of unconditional love and of oneness than this neutral ground.                               

Stoicism

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves".

Alan Watts

Written by Mathew Naismith

Most often and not always, I will come to a point where I have no idea how to present a topic or view, most often in this circumstance something will present itself. My wife wanted me to read an article about how stoicism can help deal with anxiety. Let's be honest, how many spiritually aware people of today suffer from some form of anxiety which can lead to depression. Depression doesn't lead to anxiety but most often anxiety can lead to depression. Of course one way to deal with anxiety in relation to our present reality, is to deliberately ignore all the deemed negatives in favour of desired so-called positives. I say so-called positive because isn't it more positive to face the present reality for what it is, instead of creating a desired reality that isn't of the present? In other words desiring to live within our own reality instead of the, very real, present reality. Are we not supposed to be living and positively dealing with the present reality within the present? We are not doing this; we are instead allowing our anxiety of the present reality to determine our reaction in relation to the present reality.

Note: Present means to introduce something to others, or, to being in the now. Yes, the English language can be confusing at times.             

Stoicism; (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno. An indifference to pleasure or pain.

"Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens".....Epictetus

Who would a truly unconditionally loving soul embrace in love more, a soul of the same love or a soul that isn't of the same love? The soul that needs love will always be embraced before a soul that doesn't need love, however, quite the opposite is occurring with so many people of today. It's like a multinational; would not a like minded materialist person embrace the multinational before a spiritually aware person? Unconditional love is not of the embracement of its own first and foremost, it is of the embracement of what is in need the most.

How many of us are embracing this present reality while forgoing a desire of a desired reality of the future? The anxiety created by deeming the present reality as simply negative and even toxic is a typical trait of anxiety. Ignore an obvious state of mind for a desired state of mind, and we wonder why so many people are suffering with depression these days!! Yes, one way traits of anxiety deceptively avoid going into depression because of so many negatives, is to deceive. How many spiritually aware people of today think that positive thinking is ignoring the negatives, not dealing with them and turning them into something less negative? How many spiritually aware people today think that unconditional love is the embracement of their own kind and of their own reality first and foremost? This is while deeming everything else negative and even toxic, including the present!! How many actually live within the present while portraying being in the present? One of the main traits of anxiety is to deceive.

Yes, make the best use of what is in your power to influence and forgo, let go, what isn't in your power to influence. This reminds me of Confucius; where at the end of he's time he suffered with depression. This was due to him not being able to influence the present reality to the degree he desired to influence it by. Another trait of anxiety is to force change and if this doesn't occur to the degree we desire it to occur, depression sets in.

There is a difference between trying to force change to simply trying to influence change. I will try to influence change upon the present reality, if this doesn't occur, I will take the rest as it happens, meaning, accept what it is for what it is and make the best of it, not the worst of it. How many people today try, at times very hard and deliberately, to make the worst of the present reality? And this is their representation of positive thinking and unconditional love!!

Do people like me suffer with a degree of anxiety in relation to our present abusive reality? Yes, but it is what it is when it's beyond our influence. So many more people desire the present reality, or, desire to look upon the present reality as something to escape from and certainly not something one embraces in love. Try to remember, it took billions of people to create their present reality, who are we to force change upon so many? Yes, we also exist within this reality and yes, we have a right to influence change upon this reality, however, to try to force or manipulate change, especially deceptively, is simply being apart of this reality. You are not changing a thing.

Stoicisms is simply an indifference to pain and pleasure, meaning, one is not desired over and above the other, within this, traits of anxiety are unable to control our lives to any great extent. You could say that stoicism creates a balanced mind therefore reality, where a desired state is never forced, only influenced. When you decrease desires, levels of anxiety naturally decrease as well. You will also look upon the present reality quite differently, knowing that you may or may not be able to influence the present reality.

What brought this on is a reaction by a so-called social worker to a person suffering with depression. At no time was the person suffering depression seen to be suffering anxiety by the social worker, this lead to depression being treated and not anxiety which can cause depression. We need to all be aware in how our present reality can cause us to suffer with anxiety and possible depression. Be honest with yourselves and face up to what anxiety creates, remember though, anxiety will try to deceive us otherwise as anxiety will often ignore the real truth in favour of a desired truth.

http://theconversation.com/want-to-be-happy-then-live-like-a-stoic-for-a-week-103117

Yes, the meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond the (present reality).