This Teaching encourages you to find the truth for yourself, by looking into your own experience. In the course of your life, experiences happen. The real question is, what was your part in bringing those experiences into being? If you deconstruct any event in your life you may begin to see that any singular event is part of a much larger and more complex matrix than what you could possibly create with your own physical being. If you can look at your own experience and your own background, you may begin to see that how you are in this moment is a product of vast genetic and environmental forces beyond the possibility of personal control.
If you look, and you see that these Universal life forces were responsible for creating who you are today, then guilt eases naturally, on it's own. You don't have to make any efforts to reduce it; it simply dissipates in the seeing.
We're all a mixed bag of qualities. If any of us were capable of creating our own realities we would all be saints! We would be loving and kind and generous all the time, because when we're loving and kind and generous, we feel better, everybody feels better, and it brings more joy into life. The fact that despite our best intentions, and our most earnest observations and efforts, we’re still filled with positive and negative qualities, seems to suggest a certain lack of control on the part of the human organism. Perhaps if you look, you will see deeply into the mystery and be freed. I hope so!
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If you look, and you see that these Universal life forces were responsible for creating who you are today, then guilt eases naturally, on it's own. You don't have to make any efforts to reduce it; it simply dissipates in the seeing.
We're all a mixed bag of qualities. If any of us were capable of creating our own realities we would all be saints! We would be loving and kind and generous all the time, because when we're loving and kind and generous, we feel better, everybody feels better, and it brings more joy into life. The fact that despite our best intentions, and our most earnest observations and efforts, we’re still filled with positive and negative qualities, seems to suggest a certain lack of control on the part of the human organism. Perhaps if you look, you will see deeply into the mystery and be freed. I hope so!