Learn the art of getting to the root cause of your problems

 Whoever drinks of the water

that I will give him

will never thirst again.

John 4:14

 

The mandate to stop thinking is meaningless. These are subconscious processes at work. You may as well tell your followers to stop breathing.

 

The mandate to be mindful of thoughts and feelings is more useful, but even that method is not fully kosher. We tend to forget that the entity that watches the thoughts and feelings was born from the same conditioned mind. The distinction between good and bad thoughts and feelings might be a step towards more ethical living but it isn’t That what spirituality is after.

 

The most useful approach is being aware of energies. Watch when you think, feel, speak and act. The “poor me,” “how dare he,” “I can do it!”, and countless other energies we absorb and emit. As these energies hit we can go to the root cause of these happenings and get our arms around the psychological entity that manifested them. These acts of self inquiry punches little holes in this illusionary entity and deflates it little by little.

 

Nothing happens until we have managed the art of getting to the root cause of our struggles; finances, romance, profession, health, you name it, the list is endless. Unfortunately, we can never get entirely to the bottom of our self-induced struggles. Like weed in the garden, as we uproot some, new ones emerge. No, the system switches the one day when we continue digging even after haven gotten to the root cause of an issue. We keep digging until we strike the groundwater level. That is the Ground from which the essence springs. When we are connected every remaining psychological thought, memory or aspiration is recognized as a distraction that is not of us. That’s when the quest has ended.

 

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