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Just spend a few minutes writing
down all your thoughts, as they arise, without editing.
You will find no logic to your
thought process. Thoughts will constantly flit from past to future and future to
past. In the past reside your regrets and guilt. In the future lurk your wants
and speculations.
Some of the powerful feelings
which cause the mind to stress out are of guilt and regrets for past mistakes
and failures. We keep thinking of all the opportunities we have missed, and
those we may lose in future. We are often consumed by guilt for things we have
done or said. Sometimes this goes to such an extent we even begin to hate
ourselves!
What we have to understand is
that our realisation of past mistakes and failures is part of our own growing
up; it is part of our updated wisdom. No one can evolve without making mistakes.
The errors that we commit along the path of life are indicators that we are now
more aware of ourselves.
Each one of us reflects the
essential duality of the cosmos. For every strength that we possess, we also
have some corresponding weakness. The basic aim of spiritual progress is to
overcome our weaknesses and garner our strengths. So if you have made mistakes,
tackle the weakness which caused them, instead of concentrating on the mistakes
themselves.
Guilt is totally negative. It is
the greatest sin you can commit. Religious and social organisations conspire to
breed guilt in us, so that they can control us, not to make us better.
This is why I say that you fully
accept your past mistakes and get rid of any feelings of guilt, Regretting the
past will only spoil the value of the present. Just learn from it, accept it and
move on. Even if you cannot accept it for some reason, just accept that you
cannot accept. Once this happens, you will find that a great load has been
lifted from your mind. If you accept what you are, what is, the grip of the
negative mind will disappear and bliss will rise in you.
If you accept what you are, what
is, the mind will lose its roots. Mind and bliss cannot stay together. When mind
is, bliss is not. It is either mind or bliss. So drop your mind and simply decide
walk the path of ecstasy!
So drop your mind, your guilt and
simply walk the path of ecstasy!
Be Blissful! |
