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Zen and the Art
of Lost and Found
We become free by
transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into
responsible, responsive individuals in the present.
How
I felt about what was done or who did what to whom or what was said
as it was done is considered by some to actually be profound and
insightful … worthy of great insight, understanding and definitely
denoting a sense of wisdom on the speakers behalf … it
is like he or she knows the answer before they have done the work.
Discovery Made:
The emotions that we feel are
not a description of who we are …
nor are they an indicator of how close our relationship is with God
or anyone else for that matter … they are just feelings
… and for most of us, we don’t know how to either read them or
interpret them … they can only tell us where we are in proximity to
something that reminds us of something or someone we have experienced
previously on this journey … not benchmarks that denote
where we are on our journey and more precisely not who we are
… I always hoped it
would but it never did!
The trick to the
whole thing seems to be not to
ignore or deny feelings … in fact what I learned was that as I
became more aware of them I found they helped my perception of my
reality … paradoxically odd but true.
Another Discovery
Made: To change my appreciation
of my feelings … changes my perception … as I did this change of
appreciation thing I discovered what my feelings could do for
me, shifted somehow … became different
…
Yet
Another Discovery Made:What
I found was … I could now use my new working awareness of my
feelings to take care of day to day business … little things like …
not getting lost in someone else’s stuff … things like … coming
to terms with knowing when to finally let go and put out the
emotional garbage … when to be done with something and move on …
developing that sense seemed to point me in a direction … one that
seemed to be the onset of wisdom … now that was profound for
me … understanding that alone freed up so much of me for me.
Neil Tubb
Zen and the Art of Lost and Found
yes and thank you again Neil.
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