Psychic "Punishment" Energy - Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha

Attachment to invalidation, intimidation, alienation, belittlement, rejection, fear, and harm

People having "trouble at work", "trouble at home", "trouble in the marriage", "overweight and undervalued", "overworked and underpaid".

Moving punishment energy out of one's space is a priority for health, but the person must want to/be ready to do it.

If the native is too invested in the anger/frustration/invalidationcycle, subconscious desperate clinging will prevent release.

Often, such a sophisticated and elaborate network of ego-responses to the punishment energy has developed over time, that the person's entire identity seems to depend on staying connected to the punishers (who dole out the guilt and grief).

The elaborate ego-protective mechanism for surviving the punishments so dominates the field of awareness that one is unable to see the possibility of breaking away from the punishers.

heir reality - their necessity - is unquestioned; the survival instinct rules; all resources go into developing more and better ego-responses to the pain.

But at some point the karma of bondage to ignorance reduces through compassionate actions, and as a result the field of awareness will slightly expand. An objective view emerges.

The connection between the punishment energy, its agents, and the patterned ego-responses it invokes becomes fairly obvious, and the person is motivated to break the chain.

Or, as the psychics say, one tires of "being the result of someone else's energy" and wants to create a more self-directed path.

This is what stuck energy is all about, Allowing oneself to become the result of things forgetting that one is a participant-creator of things.

Luckily, it's easy to fix. A few heartfelt moments spent in deep, intentional meditation will usually bring along the replacement "permission" energy!

H. H. Dalai Lama, and Dr. Howard C. Cutler, M.D. (1998, 2004). The Art of Happiness at Work ,Riverhead Trade Pub.

"Yes" on small changes, self-management, and developing spiritual strength.
"No" on tolerance for exploitation or injustice.

Q: Do you have any thoughts about how a person could go about increasing their feeling of autonomy or freedom at work?

H.H. "... it will completely depend on the person's individual circumstances, what position they are in.

Let's take the example of a prisoner. Now of course it is best not to be in prison, but even in that situation, where a person may be deprived of freedom, he or she may discover small choices that they are able to make.

And even if somebody is in prison, with very rigid rules, they can undertake some spiritual practices to try to lessen their mental frustrations, try to get some peace of mind. So they can work on internal development ...

if people can do this under the extreme conditions of prison, in the workplace people may try to discover small things, small choicesthat they can make in how to go about their work.

And of course, somebody may work on an assembly line with little variation in how to do their tasks, but they still have other kinds of choices in terms of their Attitudes, how they interactwith their co-workers, whether they utilize certain inner qualitiesor spiritual strengthsto change their attitude at work even though the nature of the work may be difficult. Isn't it? So, perhaps that would help.

Of course, when you are talking about rigid rules and lack of freedom, that doesn't mean that you are required to blindly follow and accept everything others tell you. In instances where the worker might be exploited, where the employer thinks of nothing but profit and pays a small salary and demands a lot of overtime, or where one may be asked to do things that are not appropriate or are unethical,one should not simply think, "Well, this is my karma," and take no action. Here it is not enough to think, "I should just be content."

Misplaced Tolerance

If there is injustice, then I think inaction is the wrong response. The Buddhist texts mention what is called "misplaced tolerance," or "misplaced forbearance."

So ... misplaced patience or forbearance refers to the sense of endurance that some individuals have when they are subject to a very destructive, negative activity. That is a misplaced forbearance and endurance. Similarly, in the work environment, if there is a lot of injustice and exploitation, then to passively tolerate it is the wrong response.

The appropriate response really is to actively resist it, to try to change this environment rather than accept it. One should take some action ... perhaps one could speak with the boss, with the management, and try to change these things.

One needs to actively resist exploitation. And in some cases, one may simply need to quit and to look for other work."

Dzong-ka-ba and H.H. Dalai Lama. Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats.

Jeffrey Hopkins (Trans. and Ed.). www.snowlionpub.com

The practical selfishness of clean living

"Sometimes people mistakenly look on vows and pledgesas if these were a type of punishment, but this is not at all the case.

For example, just as we follow certain methods of eating and drinking to improve our healthand certainly not to punish ourselves, so the rules the Shakyamuni Buddha formulated are for controlling counter-productive ill-deeds and ultimately for overcoming afflictive emotions, because these are self-ruinous.

Thus, to relieve oneself from suffering, one controls the motivations and deeds producing suffering for one's own sake.

Realizing from his own experience that suffering stems from one's own afflictive emotions as well as actions contaminated with them, he sets forth styles of behavior to reduce the problem for our own profit, certainly not to give us a hard time.

Hence, these rules are for the sake of controlling sources of harm."