Perfection: a certain condition, not a panacea
Could you please tell us what to start changing and improving ourselves with?
Perfection should not be explained, because it is a process. When we talk about improvement, but we do not work on ourselves every day, and when we are actually outside the process, then all our arguments on the subject, in fact, are a reaction, where we rather defend our position than look for a new one.
When we are asking this question, we should have only one answer: “Work!”. As long as a person does not pass the stage of the search, he won't be able to put himself into a position of making a choice. But in reality, today people don't have any choice, because there are only the “Self” and the established habits and reactions. Therefore, if you have not learnt to mark time in one place, you must not follow the Way.
Of course, it would be better, if you meet along the Way those who won't just teach you, but teach you how to study. But in reality, we get the opinions and advices of those who are actually hostages of their own declared by them ideas. But that's not, in fact, the problem. The problem is that we cannot make an evaluation. Therefore, if have not learned to evaluate our own actions, we cannot understand the algorithm of changes.
However, today people do not even put such questions before themselves, because if you put such a question – you need to start acting. And for this purpose it is not only needed to have power, but also to change your own experience of existence. After that, we begin to rebuild our world of perception, directing ourselves, in the beginning, into a daily monitoring of our own actions and deeds, thus learning to build tasks and see our attitude to them.
The observation is also a real problem for people because they are not burdened by such an important feature as attention. And, of course, unless we submit our lives to a total observation and attention, we won't be able to give a real meaning to our actions. Development should not be from time to time, because it is a building, where you cannot be in a position of expectation. However, you can't also be in a hurry. Improvement has no limit and it's not a slogan, but a process. If we are in the process of improvement, then we don't even have to worry about the result, because the very presence in this process is the most important result.
Everyone has a personal history and should learn to improve himself in relation to it, not in relation to the results of someone else, when we often don't understand why and how these results were achieved. We need to learn and work out a beginning, and then it will lead us to a rebuilding. And only when we have rebuilt ourselves (which is akin to the achievement of a specific tuning), we can begin to move forward. After all, if we don't understand one, we cannot build two.
The problem is that in the beginning of the Way, we don't understand the process, and no matter what they would say to us, we should not agree or disagree with it. We are supposed to accumulate a critical mass. Yes, perhaps, this is not the best option, but what can we do if we are not taught how to learn, or when we are no longer children and we have a lot of violations, which have become part of us. In reality, it is us who is part of them and we are those who are dependent on the incorrect proportion, disturbed breathing and circulation of energy! However, if we want to understand this, we must gain at least a primary experience of interaction, first of all, with our minds.
Any development is a formula, not a linear action, and we should get to know it, otherwise we'll simply replace one unnecessary action with another. But this would be the best scenario, because very often it is accompanied also with an aggravation. Of course, I would advise you to start changing the geometry of the body first, but it is necessary to understand that it's meant a certain volume by that, rather than a technical “trick”.
At the heart of the real improvement should be the method.
23 january 2013
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