It's like we have all
these facets, and if we move about with flexibility, we encounter one after
another surfaces of ourselves, each reflecting an entirely different
perspective of life.
No wonder we become confused when shifting from one perception to another, by having our settled-upon Opinion on something stood up next to another possibility altogether.
I think this is why, as we become aware, we also shift toward equanimity.
Because equanimity is not thoughtlessness
or callous disregard. Rather, it is learning to unreactively BE with how things seem right now.
So much of our time, we reflexively react to encounters with an unthinking try-to-solve-it-fix-it-make-it-go-away dynamic. For ourselves or others. We lose track of reality. We forget to watch and wait and actually determine when reaction or defense or swooping in to fix is even appropriate.
We run the risk of living our entire lives, swept away within a paradigm of deflection, that robs us of actual ease.
Life is inherently full of very real difficulties of all sorts of magnitude .
That doesn't mean it's worth it to spend our days and nights suspecting , and always looking out.
It's like living day after day swatting the bee away from your face, ducking the errant flyball .
Only most of the time there is no bee and there never was a flyball.
No wonder we become confused when shifting from one perception to another, by having our settled-upon Opinion on something stood up next to another possibility altogether.
I think this is why, as we become aware, we also shift toward equanimity.
Because equanimity is not thoughtlessness
or callous disregard. Rather, it is learning to unreactively BE with how things seem right now.
So much of our time, we reflexively react to encounters with an unthinking try-to-solve-it-fix-it-make-it-go-away dynamic. For ourselves or others. We lose track of reality. We forget to watch and wait and actually determine when reaction or defense or swooping in to fix is even appropriate.
We run the risk of living our entire lives, swept away within a paradigm of deflection, that robs us of actual ease.
Life is inherently full of very real difficulties of all sorts of magnitude .
That doesn't mean it's worth it to spend our days and nights suspecting , and always looking out.
It's like living day after day swatting the bee away from your face, ducking the errant flyball .
Only most of the time there is no bee and there never was a flyball.
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