Saturday, November 19, 2011

Solving versus Transcending

I have recently written about our ability to sidestep an issue. You cannot 'solve' the demands of the 'I', you can only outgrow them. To give a surreal example, you might have heard about the luxury yacht competition, where billionaires compete to have the biggest yacht out there, never mind that hundreds of support staff have to be hired to maintain them. You cannot still your desire since there will always be a rich guy who will outdo you. What you can do is to understand that there is no solution to your problem. Similarly, when the thought pops up in your head on whatever it is that gets your blood boiling, you can suddenly hear an 'oh' in your head and the mental bubble immediately collapses. You have transcended the issue. Somehow the system has gotten the point that further perusal of this mental subject is stale and just cannot compete with the feeling of serenity that follows when you drop the thought.

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