I no longer ask to be delivered from evil, I ask to see only what is good.
your help in this endeavor would be great [:D]
with love
brother neil
I no longer ask to be delivered from evil, I ask to see only what is good.
But are you willing to see the good in evil?
finger pulled, now what?
But are you willing to see the good in evil?
This is really the trick of it isn’t it; to be able to see light even in darkness, love within war, peace in chaos…
When we remember that the essence of every single human being and all that is manifest is intrinsically good, then there is no evil to be delivered from. The practice is to live with this wisdom in every day life.
[QUOTE=Bentinho Massaro;23339]But are you willing to see the good in evil?
sometimes evil destroys itself and yes, that is good
also if I see the good in evil, I am therefore seeing good, exactly what I asked for.
thanks to all for the support in this
brother Neil
If you see good in everything, there is nothing like evil for you. Everything good only will happen to you. Its like positivity takes you to positive results. Dont worry if evil happens besides you, it will not effect you, if you think always good and not evil. There is nothing like evil, we make it evil:grin:
I would suggest though, not to try and see the good in everything as an exercise, because in my experience, sooner or later it becomes a burden.
It’s like trying to love everyone mentally by repeating to yourself: “Oh I love you! and you! oh and you too! Oh look at that ***hole, I love him too!” Its not very likely that it will be the real thing if you catch my drift. Another of such practices is to try and embrace the entire universe, to spread out your sense of self to the entire universe. It just does not work on a mental level.
However, I cherish your intention, nothing wrong with that. Just think it is not possible to do it mentally. Rather, all these qualities, like seeing the higher good in everything, and loving everyone and embracing the universe with your mental hug, they all come about through knowing who you are.
In my own experience it is like this:
Whenever I try to reach some quality like we are talking about, in this world which is my perception, then it inevitably fails sooner or later. But then I realized that the world is within me, and there is no need to know every start out there, mainly because everything that’s out there, is simply in here. So to try and love every creature in the galaxy, would only continue my belief in the actuality of the universe being ‘out there’.
Realizing this, whenever the intention arose in my mind to love everyone or to be at one with the universe, I noticed my tendency to spread my awareness ‘out there’ in order to reach something, and i stopped doing that gradually. Instead, I just remained completely perceptually open and at rest as the perceiver that I am. Not buying into any belief of mine that said a part of creation actually exists out there, rather, knowing that the only place where they exist, is in and as the perceiver itself. So I just remained at peace again and again as being the perceiver.
From this arises the true love and seeing everything as an expression within yourself, thus everything becomes equally good. It’s not a state one can reach through mental practice. Rather it is realized almost right away when you rest as the sole source of your world: awareness.
From this, everything will be seen in the perspective of Unity, Love and Goodness. Oh my :).
Love,
Bentinho.