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CarsonZi
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 Posted - Feb 18 2011 : 01:03:31 AM
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I just arrived back home from doing a 3hr "The Work" workshop. In this workshop I picked two statements to do the work on. One was, "I am free from suffering" (I picked this statement because I have actually been believing this). This statement and the resulting "Work" that followed was incredibly revealing for me and I wanted to share what I realized.
I started with the first question, "Is it true?"
I dropped the statement in Silence and allowed the answer to arise..... "No, it is not true that I am free from suffering."
So, I moved on to the, "How do I react/feel/what happens when I believe this thought." Again I dropped this question into Silence and allowed the answer to arise from within. What I got was this; "I feel superior, ego inflated and like I have all the answers. I feel fake, I begin to question/second guess myself, and I feel like others are judging me." Here I began to cry as you may well imagine.
From there I moved on to the fourth question in Katie's "The Work"...."Who would I be without this thought?" Once again I dropped the question into Silence and waited for the answer to arise....which it did. The answer was; "I would just be me.....but absolutely free."
Then I turned my statement around. "I am not free from suffering." This is when the release happened. In allowing myself the freedom to suffer, I lost the suffering. What a paradox! In believing that I am free from suffering I found that I WAS suffering. In allowing myself the freedom TO suffer, I lost the suffering. There was freedom.
To me, this is a great weight lifted off of my shoulders. I am not free from suffering. I am free to suffer. What a joy!
Love!
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Ananda
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Posted - Feb 18 2011 : 07:49:04 AM
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Big thank you |
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Ananda
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Posted - Feb 18 2011 : 07:50:04 AM
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| And lots of love towards you and your lovely family [img]icon_heart.gif[/img] |
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Sparkle
Ireland
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Posted - Feb 18 2011 : 07:51:56 AM
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| Lovely Carson, thanks |
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Katrine
Norway
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Posted - Feb 18 2011 : 12:31:16 PM
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Beautiful Carson.
Tusen takk
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karl
United Kingdom
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Posted - Feb 18 2011 : 1:52:44 PM
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Yes, acceptance, simple to understand and difficult to practice with all the mirrors of the mind refracting the truth and bending it into multi forms.
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bewell
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Posted - Feb 18 2011 : 8:13:48 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by CarsonZi
...I feel like others are judging me." Here I began to cry as you may well imagine.
Carson
Good work! You're a trail-blazer in my little map of the woods. I laughed with recognition when I read this line:
"..I feel like others are judging me.' Here I began to cry as you may well imagine."
Yes, I can relate.
I saw Byron Katie do what she does once for about an hour when she visited DC. Thanks for refreshing my memory of "the work."
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Edited by - bewell on Feb 19 2011 05:40:12 AM |
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mr_anderson
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Posted - Mar 01 2011 : 1:19:31 PM
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| thanks for sharing carson. beautiful |
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