Or we can find...in our habits, patterns, that are repeated, and play with that...investigate them thoroughly, try 'doing' them, and then try 'not doing' them. Look for the places, where we allow our awareness to drain away...our energy to leak out, which may lead to blaming 'external factors'...(other people)... for our state
It's actually quite a fun exercise...being alive, and curious about that. One trick might be to imagine a volume control, next to each of our emotional and intellectual reaction centers, so that experience and insight are not drowned out by reactivity and opinion.
Just turn it down, you don't have to get rid of it yet, keep it where you can see it. Those who 'jump to the spiritual end' are wasting all their gold on a false pedestal of temporary, and extremely conditional 'well-being'.
When those reference points disappear...when the festival is over, or the nature awareness course or whatever, has finished. and those with less money have cleaned up the mess, you get home, back in town, and go right back to the day-job. ..Time to get up, time for beddy-byes, time to off-load the kids to school or more likely to the ex...There can be no separations, so therefore reference points, off the path...it's all good material, so why cease to regard one thing as sacred, and one as profane?
It takes practise, but again, it's always fun...if a little scary at first. Learning to trust ones own light, and risk, at least to oneself, exposing ALL projections...even this one.
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