Some Psychic Suggestions:
Handling Animosity, Jealousy, Exploitation, andGreed
how life works: see Piece of Cake.pps
Maqâmât (assemblies) of the al-Hariri,Scene: Pilgrim Caravan (31 Maqâmât)
c. 1237, by Yahyâ ibn Mahmûd al-Wâsitî
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_art
-- Daniel Goleman, Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health
Anger, from an evolutionarypoint
of view, serves a purpose.
It's helped us to survive. Anger is quite appropriate in response to an injustice or a wrong that needs to be righted.
But, as the Dalai Lama pointed out,
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if you're going to be effective in responding to what makes one angry,
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one need to keep the focus and energy of the anger,
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but drop the anger itself in order to act more skillfully.
What to do about some one or some organization that one *really hate?* Somebody who *really deserves* to be hated? Thieves, creeps, exploiters. Rapists, swindlers, torturers. Polluters. Liars. Evil co-workers. Abusive bosses. Vicious neighbors Cruel judges. Bullies.
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Well, first of all, Give one'sself Credit. one are ever so clever. one have created an enemy!
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The fact that one's enemy exists in one's conscious awareness- and that one hate them - is actually A very good sign. It's good because it indicates that have brought up stored subconscious hatred into conscious awareness. It's not just sitting silently in one's subconscious memory, eating away at one's life like a hidden cancer. You, most intelligently, have brought this stored toxin to the surface, from whence it can be safely released.
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It's just one small step to total elimination. One tiny action to force the total toxic purge.
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Hate stored from past lives is what creates enemies in the current life. Hatred is a horrible toxin, which poisons our beautiful world on personal, national, and racial levels.
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If one are committed enough to one's own happiness -- if one are willing to Let Go and Let Godwhere one's enemies are concerned -- one may be healed of this great sickness. In the west we have a much beloved role-model who demonstrated this cure while hanging to death on Calvary Hill. By all accounts, it worked for Him!
Try this guilt-free, grief-free, forgiveness technique for releasing one's enemies in this life:
"When an individual is firmly established in non-violence (ahimsa),
all beings who come near him also cease to be hostile."
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Accept responsibility (not guilt1) for having created this Authentic haterelationship with another person or group.
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Acknowledge how clever one are for having manifested an old, unfinished past-life karma into one's current life, so that one could fix it now.
Be willing to release the matching fear energy in one's own space which is what allows the enemy to plug in to one's aura. They can't plug in if there is no match.
If there is conflict energy in one's space, scarcity thinking, fear- release it. It's a simple as making the mental intention, and giving one's body permission to release. KISS - Keep It Sweet and Simple.
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Make a clear mental image of the enemy. Experience that hate vibration one last time. Yuck. It's very uncomfortable and sick. Since hate and its source energy - fear -tend to lurk in the 1st chakra (old survival energy), put a big grounding cord on one's first chakra, and ground down to the center of the earth. Make sure one's grounding cord is firmly anchored. Send that big toxic tumor of angry hate energy right down the grounding cord. Plunk.
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Release one's interest in the relationship with the enemy. Accept *no responsibility whatsoever* for the other person(s) and their actions toward you. Whatever vile thing they do is Their problem. This means no guilt or one's part. one take responsibility for one's own actions solely.
(Note this is exactly like selling one's car. On the day one sell one's car, "my car" which had been a precious, important extension of one's very body, suddenly becomes "the car" about which one care nothing. The miraculous change from Very Involved/Obsessed to Total Apathy that occurs when one Release one's Interest in the Vehicle, can also occur when one Release one's Interest in an Unwanted Relationship.)
Put out a request to the higher powers that this nasty person be helped to TAKE THEIR NEXT STEP. This is a nice, positive, but firm way of psychically saying, and "Git along now. I mean Git!"
Remember you're not specifying what should happen to them. You're not asking for them to be hurt or punished. You're asking for them to be helped to *move along.*-
Close one's eyes. Make an image of the enemy. Place the enemy image in a golden soap bubble. If it's a big enemy like a whole country or a whole race of people (this works very well for racism, which we all slip into sometimes) make an extra-big golden bubble. hen send that bubble off to the Supreme Being.
one don't care what happens to them. It's not one's job to micromanage other people's karma. It *is* the Supreme Being's job, so one just delegate up... return one's interest in the matter to central control. She'll take care of it.
one might need to practice the enemy-in-golden-bubble-returned-to-Supreme-Being several times. After each send-off, be sure to fill up one's entire body, especially first chakra region, with bright golden light.
~~ Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Non-Violence in Peace and War, vol. 2, ch. 248 (1948) -- www.gandhiserve.org
"It is easy enough to be friendly to one' s friends.
But to befriend the one who regards himself as one's enemy
is the quintessence of true religion.
The other is mere business."
" Matching energy" ensures that those who fear legal reprisal will attract legal reprisal.
As Trulshig Rinpoche(Nepal) used to say, "That's just how it is!"
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Often such a fear originates in past lives, where the person committed some type of moral error and got away with it. In the current life, they expect (and often receive) the reprisal they believe they have long deserved.
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The karmic backlash *can be effectively avoided* through meditation and conscious behavior, including the person's willingness to Accept psychic responsibility for the adversarial situation in which they find themselves.
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Unfortunately however, most people are sleep-walking caught in the web of reactions... and therefore most people who fear lawsuits will attract lawsuits.
Check one's belief system.
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Is one holding an expectation of reprisal?
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Some punishment pictures lingering in one's aura perhaps?
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Release all negative imagery and replace with trust, shelter, protection, and goodwill.
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This can be a time-consuming task involving many hours of healing meditation, but well worth it to avoid the emotional and material consequence of angry litigation.
Have a competent healer check for anything one might have missed in self-inspection. And remember, it's responsibility *without* guilt :)
Non-Violence in Peace and War, vol. 1, ch. 256 (1942) www.gandhiserve.org
"Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent.
It is otherwise with mental non-violence.
It has potency which the world does not yet know."
Personal, National, and Racial Animosity on a Global Scale.
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Mahatma Gandhi definitely had some enemies. He wanted the racist, exploitive British colonial administration of Occupied India to leave his country. He wanted himself, and millions of his Indian countrymen, to experience full self-determination under a native Indian government. He wanted to be Free.
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But British forces had occupied India for centuries, and the British economy had prospered while exploiting India's resources. Although the British were much hated, few Indians believed that their evil oppressors would ever go away.
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Most Indians chose instead o stew in their hatred of the British, causing sporadic violent native upheavals that were aggressively, often viciously, put down by clearly superior British forces. he enemy seemed huge, evil, and insurmountable.
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In the beginning Gandhi too hated oppressors and oppressive systems (like apartheid in So. Africa, where he worked as a young man.) He found himself overwhelmed and in danger of being destroyed by his own hatred.
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Then, after accepting the scope of the problem and meditating on the nature of change, Gandhi determined that all outer-world purification grows from the seed of private individual purification.
Gandhi developed and applied a concept called "Satya Graha" (= Force of Truth; = non-violent force) to all of his enemies, public and private. He followed a system somewhat similar to the steps above. Every day he purified himself of all anger, and humbly requested the higher powers to help the enemy move along. In this peaceful, neutral frame of mind , Gandhi did much practical action. He led huge non-violent protests, endured hunger strikes, and completed marathon walks - with no malice in his heart, but relentlessly calling attention to the problem. Millions of non-violent Indians eventually joined him.
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In the end, Gandhi's personal goal of purifying himself of anger, and his national goal of purging the British toxin from India, were both met via he same Release technique.
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Indian freedom was finally achieved by a remarkable chain of world events -- unrelated to local Indian politics -- that left Britain so bankrupt after WWII that Britain could no longer afford to colonize India.
And so the higher powers gave Britain her next step. By releasing his interest in the enemy, both India and the Mahatma were freed.
"Even though there are so many of us on this planet, everyone can only see themselves.
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We depend on others to eat, to have clothes, to find a job or become famous,
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And yet we regard other people as our enemies even though we are all so intimately connected.
Is this not a patent contradiction?"
"When Tibet was still free, we cultivated our natural isolation, mistakenly thinking that we could prolong our peace and security that way.
Consequently, we paid little attention to the changes taking place in the world outside.
Later, we learned the hard way that in the international arena, as well as at home, freedom is something to be shared and enjoyed in the company of others, not kept to one'sself."
~~ Budapest, 1994
"I believe that Tibet will be free only when its people become strong, and hatred is not strength.
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It is a weakness.
The Lord Buddha was not being religious, in the popular sense of the term, when he said that hatred does not cease by hatred.
Rather, he was being practical.
p>Any achievement attained through hatred [can only invite] trouble sooner or later."~~ Statement, 10 March 1971
Why should one work so hard to please people, doing all sorts of things for others in order to make them feel happy? If one can't bear one's enemy's happiness, then why should one do all sorts of things to make anyone else happy?
Shantideva explains an inconsistency regarding this issue. He notes that when praise is directed toward oneself, when people speak highly of oneself, one not only feels happy but also expects others to be happy when they hear this praise. However, this is totally inconsistent with one's attitude toward others. When people praise others, then not only does one disapprove of others' happiness but one's own peace of mind and happiness are destroyed as well. So there seems to be an inconsistency when it comes to relating to praise directed toward oneself and praise directed toward others.
Then, especially for a Bodhisattva practitioner who has dedicated his or her life to bringing about joy and happiness in others and leading them to the ultimate state of happiness, to be jealous of others' happiness and joy is totally inappropriate. In fact, one should feel that if other sentient beings of their own accord, from their own efforts, gain any little experience of happiness and joy here and there, we should be all the more grateful, because without our helping them, they have been able to achieve these joyful experiences and happiness.
"If we investigate on a deeper level, we will find that when enemies inflict harm on us, we can actually feel gratitude toward them. Such situations provide us with rare opportunities to put to test our own practice of patience. It is a precious occasion to practice not only patience but the other bodhisattva ideals as well.
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As a result, we have the opportunity to accumulate merit in these situations and to receive the benefits thereof.
The poor enemy, on the other hand, because of the negative action of inflicting harm on someone out of anger and hatred, must eventually face the negative consequences of his or her own actions.
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It is almost as if the perpetrators of the harm sacrifice themselves for the sake of our benefit.
Since the merit accumulated from the practice of patience was possible only because of the opportunity provided us by our enemy, strictly speaking, we should dedicate our merit to the benefit of that enemy.
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This is why the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life speaks of the kindness of the enemy."
Although we did not have the fortune to see Buddha Shakyamuni himself in person, we do have the great fortune of having access to his own precious teachings, which is actually superior to seeing him in person.
The same is the case with masters like Nagarjuna and his immediate disciples. If we make the necessary effort, and undertake the practice and study, we can fully enjoy a benefit equal to that of having met them in person.
...So visualize in space, in front of you, all the exalted masters,
- including Buddha Shakyamuni, Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, eighty mahasiddhas, the Nyingma masters, Atisha, the Kadampa masters, the five great masters of the Sakya tradition, the lineages of Lamdre practice, the great masters of the Kagyu lineage, such as Marpa, Milarepa, and also the great masters of the Gelugpa lineage, Lama Tsongkhapa, and all of their followers.
Around you also are the protectors who have taken the oath in the presence of Buddha Shakyamuni to safeguard and protect the precious doctrine of Buddha.
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Visualize as well the harmful spirits--actually an embodiment of your own delusions--from which you are being protected by the guardians. Also visualize various emanations of the buddhas actively working for the benefit of all living beings.
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Surrounding you are all sentient beings...undergoing the sufferings of their individual realms of existence. Now generate a strong force of compassion directed towards all these sentient beings, particularly your enemies.
Having created this mental image, question yourself as to how all these objects of refuge, the buddhas and the masters of the past, achieved such a high state of realization and reached a state where they can provide protection to all living beings.
You will find that it is because of their having made effort in the practice of dharma in general and, in particular, the practice of bodhicitta*.
Think as follows: "I shall, from today, follow in the footsteps of these great masters, and take the initiative of generating bodhicitta."
* The aspiration to achieve enlightenment for the sake of all beings.
all that is true, all that is noble,
all that is just and pure,
all that is loveable and gracious,
whatever is excellent and admirable -
fill all your thoughts with these things."
~~ Philippians 4:8
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