THREE EXAMPLES:
I
have been saying I ‘can’t’ drink tea or coffee. The ‘can’t’ makes me feel
inadequate, disempowered, a victim of dairy and caffeine. I say to myself, I ‘don’t’
drink tea and coffee. The ‘don’t’ makes me the active agent here and empowers
me by giving me the choice. I can drink it, of course I can, but I don’t
because it harms me.
I
was roaming (what I called) ‘aimlessly’ from room to room this morning. I have
been doing a lot of ‘nothing’ lately, being unwell for a long time now, the
kind of unwellness in which you are neither sick enough to rest guiltlessly or
plunge into rewarding activities. But I paused for a second as I thought: my
aim is to roam from room to room aimlessly. Just this thought turned things
around and gave me a supreme purpose.
Rather
than think I ‘can’t’ write or read, I have eyestrain, the brain is dead, I
think, I want to do some awaragardi,
roam aimlessly from room to room, walk slowly and purposelessly on the bridge,
looking down at the water that I will soon be leaving.
To
do whatever it is that one does with consciousness turns everything around and
shifts despair to All Rightness.
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