[B]Observation >> Condemnation >> Modification, or Change[/B].
[B][I][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][B][I]I’d substitute Condemnation with Asessment of Error. Otherwise, having this reasoning, we unconsciously condemn the above process as one awakening the feeling of quilt, and because we unconsciously abhorr this feeling, we want to find this reasoning to be futile, pointless. Thus, we prove the futility of this process by appealing to the unconscious fear of the reader and the desire to escape from it. But those who are not afraid to burden their souls with the feeling of quilt, asess this trap and can avoid it. (indeed, in the original text, the author uses the picture" one being one’s own judge and executioner" ; apparently, a more tolerant, loving, accepting attitude towards himself is out of his view )[/I][/B][/FONT][/I][/COLOR][/B]
[I][B][I][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][B]Asessment of error does not automatically equal condemnation, and when it does, it shows the ambition of one to become ever more perfect. This can be perceived as an attachment to the idea of perfection, or freedom. Noone can escape this, who strives for truth, but we must face that this is selfish, what is another word for egoism, and balance it giving the right reason for it’s existence, what is, to do it for the sake of the world, and other people. Than it is only a short term egoism, selfishness, an acknowledged, assumed quality, what we perform for the greater good. Freedom alone is selfishness if it is not to provide for other people’s freedom. Indeed the best way to break an attachment is to transform it to a duty. :)[/B][/FONT][/I][/COLOR][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][B]From the ambition, striving for freedom, perfection, borns the inability to accept one’s error, one’s desire to correct one’s errors as soon as possible. This is due to the lack of strenght to bear the burden of error, it is the inpatience of the suffering man, whose only desire is to end his pain. But if one develops the soul strenght to face his suffering caused by one’s errors, than one can free himself from those errors calmly, by accepting the fact that one carries a weakness what made them possible, and by taking the resolve, that one will work to develop this weak area of one’s being. Not running at the first sign of our irrational fear to face our quilt, but letting it spread upon us, we will experience the shame, and the resulting suffering, consciously. (Remember, the ego, the little self is the one who feels pain in one’s errors, because it cannot accept itself as an imperfect being.) Than, we will remember this error well, and through this process, we free ourself from it. Next time when we might fall to it, we remember how painful it is to bear it’s consuequences in our soul and through our natural rejection of painful expereinces, we will avoid it. This is a natural process of learning. When, in time, this becomes a habit, than one will always do what is right, as a habit, and only than the freedom of consciousness, freedom of awareness is granted to higher purposes.[/B][/FONT][/I][/COLOR][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][B]Suffering can only be avoided by knowing it. To know suffering, one has to suffer.[/B][/FONT][/I][/COLOR][/B][/I]
[I][B][I][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][B]Condemnation denotes that we do something what we cannot accept with a clear conscience. Do we accept the reality of conscience ? For me, the quoted reasoning proves that the one who performs it, has a conscience, a very strong one. The existence of a higher moral judge in us what signals immediatly when we perform actions what contradict it’s nature, seems obvious. I am sure that for many practitioners, the voice of their conscience is the voice of the higher Self, the universal Self, Cosmic Ego, Christ being.[/B][/FONT][/I][/COLOR][/B][/I]
[B][I]The process could also be:[/I][/B]
[B][I]Observation[/I][/B]
[B][I]Asessment of Error[/I][/B]
[B][I]Patience, deepening our awarness of the nature of error and it’s relation to us (cause, susceptibility) [/I][/B]
[B][I]Observation of what it awakes in the soul, what feeling and corresponding will impulses[/I][/B]
[B][I]Bringing these feelings and will impulses into the center of our awarness (the realm of thought)[/I][/B]
[B][I]Realizing the means to avoid the error or to live with this susceptibility (finding ways to implement it’s treatement or inclusion in our habitual patterns)[/I][/B]
[B][I]Surely, it all depends on the nature of the error, but it is important to realize that we have a clear consciounsess only in the realm of our thinking, thus awarness is used to catch feelings and will impulses what are usually semi-conscious, or subconscious, than bringing them to our field, where we can work with them, into the realm of thought.[/I][/B]
[B][I]There are other ways to know, and realize, but we must start somewhere. Until we are able of genuine imagination, inspiration and intuition, our best tool is a clear, objective thinking separated from feeling and will impulses.[/I][/B]
