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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 621229" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>I read once that the mind is a cruel master but an obedient servant. Your devotional points to the split, particularly in the Western culture where the mind rules...............and our humanity suffers. Fear then runs us.</p><p></p><p>It's an odd dichotomy for me that as I become more vulnerable, less controlled, more present, less preoccupied with my own story line, more able to withstand the basic uncertainty of life, I am less fearful. Underneath all of that control and that "fixed identity" the inauthentic self, the quests for perfection, the enabling............. is fear, running the show. </p><p></p><p>"Often the first blow to the fixed identity is precipitated by a crisis, when things fall apart in your life. But actually it's your fixed identity that's crumbling. The purpose of the spiritual path is to unmask,to take off our armor. When that happens it feels like a crisis. Buddha taught that the fixed identity is the cause of our suffering. Looking deeper, we could say the real cause of our suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty--and thinking that it's perfectly sane, perfectly normal, to deny the fundamental groundlessness of bring human." (Living Beautifully)</p><p></p><p>This is an amazing journey we're on, through all the pain we share about our children, we are also sharing this opportunity to awaken, to open our hearts and be able to love in a very different way. I am in awe of this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 621229, member: 13542"] I read once that the mind is a cruel master but an obedient servant. Your devotional points to the split, particularly in the Western culture where the mind rules...............and our humanity suffers. Fear then runs us. It's an odd dichotomy for me that as I become more vulnerable, less controlled, more present, less preoccupied with my own story line, more able to withstand the basic uncertainty of life, I am less fearful. Underneath all of that control and that "fixed identity" the inauthentic self, the quests for perfection, the enabling............. is fear, running the show. "Often the first blow to the fixed identity is precipitated by a crisis, when things fall apart in your life. But actually it's your fixed identity that's crumbling. The purpose of the spiritual path is to unmask,to take off our armor. When that happens it feels like a crisis. Buddha taught that the fixed identity is the cause of our suffering. Looking deeper, we could say the real cause of our suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty--and thinking that it's perfectly sane, perfectly normal, to deny the fundamental groundlessness of bring human." (Living Beautifully) This is an amazing journey we're on, through all the pain we share about our children, we are also sharing this opportunity to awaken, to open our hearts and be able to love in a very different way. I am in awe of this. [/QUOTE]
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