Why does bad stuff happen?

in The Man Cave3 years ago (edited)

Dear brothers and sisters.

Prompted by a question in another post, i've decided to answer that question here, in a new post, but in a more general way, as opposed to answering the specific question (regarding receiving down-votes for no apparent reason) about why something seemingly bad was happening.

I will speak from the perspective of unity (ie. All being One, there just being One Being, One God, One True Self, Allah, Christ, Krishna, Cosmic Consciousness, the background of stillness, or whatever one wishes to call "it").

My understanding is that this human life we appear to be living, is more like a dream, a movie, which is a secondary reality, an illusory duality of separation, of opposites (hot and cold, black and white, left and right, good or bad, for example), but none of this is ultimate truth, it is only relative truth in the dream of duality.

So, back to the question, Why does bad stuff happen?
This could be rephrased as Why does Upsetting stuff happen? As who are we (dream characters) to judge what is good or bad as we are not seeing the whole picture (in Unity)?

Well, the strong conviction that i (dream character/movie star Atma) currently hold (but not too tightly), is that anything that happens to up-set me is a set-up by One True Self, to help awaken me (this ego persona dream character) from the dream of life, from the misconception that (little) i is real, from the for-getting who or what i really am.

Put another way, any-thing that upsets me is a wake up call, to re-mind me, to dismiss the image-in-ary stories which i have been dreaming which have created the upsets, and the world itself. When i am fully able to be present in this way (without mind wandering into past or future), to just BE in the present moment, then apparently the world and all that appears within it disapears along with all the worries and suffering and other imaginary dream characters, as we all merge back into and rest in the background of stillness from which we appeared.

So, if i get down-voted, or if my car stops working, or if anything upsetting happens, my job is to remain present, to fully and unconditionally feel all the bodily sensations, to be unconditionally loving, to take full responsibility (no blame, as to blame is to b lame), and to Bee Kind, in thought, word and deed, to any apparent other (who is just me anyway) and to my little self. In this way life will become joyful.

This is more and more becoming my experience as i chose to believe this is the way life works.

Amongst the many teachings / philosophies i have experienced over the last 16 years of waking up to these eternal truths, The Presence Process by Michael Brown stands out as a phenomenal self-facilitated emotional integration procedure to help me to stay present and embrace responsibility for all that appears.

Sat Nam
Atma

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Ps. As a result of my "beliefs" as above, this is what i did and what happened as a result when i got a down-vote yesterday: https://ecency.com/hive-193084/@atma.love/q9dtvku5ox3lrnmdfzw4cy

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This isn't easy at all. I have rude and uncaring neighbors since the pandemic started that no matter what you say they just keep coming back to being noisy plus they have roosters all around the apartment compound.

I have to resort to contacting the village councilors (brgy kagawads) in order to intervene because of such people. Overstepping boundaries is not a good thing to do. Plus roosters/chickens aren't supposed to be allowed in residential areas.

What do you say abt this then? How will you love such people and resolve a situation where talking/conversation doesn't work at all?

i'll get back to you in some depth on this later, perhaps, or maybe the following will suffice.

You are right, it is not easy, but with practice and persistence it will become easier. Somewhat repeating what i wrote in my original post above, yet in different ways and with additions, this may help some more:

Do your best to always** recognise** (or at least just hold the possibility it could be this way) that,

  • The other person is you.
  • The other person is like a mirror reflecting to you some of the unharmonious parts of you (the unintegrated emotions, inner tensions almost always caused due to trauma in early childhood) that you are unaware of.

That does not mean the other is reflecting an exact image, but more like they are acting in a way which evokes a particular shade of feeling within you, a feeling which you have felt before, many times, yet have not yet felt fully (but let yourself be distracted in some way), because no-one taught you how to fully feel these uncomfortable feeling which arise when we are up-set..

The other person has been activated by One True Self (the real you) to act in this seemingly unloving way to give you the opportunity to fully feel this particular feeling (while ideally being loving to the apparent other (the mirror), or if yet unable to be loving, to mentally dismiss [even thank] them for bringing you the message).

The message has now been delivered to you, yet you still need to receive it, not just leave it at your feet. To receive the message, the feelings, the bodily sensations, need to be given your undivided attention, like cradling your inner child in your arms and loving her completely in the present moment.

With repeated practice, your inner child will gradually begin to trust that you will give her your undivided attention when it is feeling upset, and not yell at the neighbour, or smoke, or overeat, or distract yourself in any way. Then inner child will gradually relax until the tensions are relaxed, thereby no longer attracting people or events to upset you to evoke that particular feeling again. Although still sometimes someone will come to poke you to keep you alert, to test you, but you will be able to laugh and hug them and be unconditionally loving. Maybe the neighbours will change their behaviour, but you will no longer be upset. Maybe they will not and you may choose to move elsewhere yet still not be upset. Not much point in moving until you've received and integrated the message, or a new messenger (mess ender) will come to poke you again in your new location.

This way of integrating stuck emotions (the cause of the upsets) is instructed meticulously by Michael Brown in The Presence Process book. I'll be please to help you get access to a copy if you are unable to buy one.

Feel free to ask more questions. I hope this has helped in some way.

Namaste
Atma

Wow that makes sense. 👍👍👍

In your picture the sun is blasting 2 rays through you man lol.

Good philosophy though, tough to take a bad thing and turn it into a positive. I have some bad things i need to turn around myself. Ive decided im not a good trader, as ive been too greedy. So im forcing myself to slow down, and to stop and smell the roses.

i don't like to trade. It takes too much time to be good at it. i do take time choosing what to buy, but then i usually just HODL.

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Im with you brother, it takes a lot of attention, dedication to the art. I work full time, and on nightshift so my dedication has to be to the lab conducting sleep studies.

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Karma man. That's all there is to it. Debts must be paid, until that moment we free ourselves from the duality.

Well yes, and no :-)
Karma only exists in duality (secondary reality), and we can free ourselves of that in the present moment.
When we're free of that in every present moment, we're in unity (real reality).
Is that so?
i don't know!
i know no-thing.
Who am i?

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar

Do not keep notice bad stuff sometimes its bitter to accept but who knows this bad thing might saving you from bigger truble.only god knows . so have faith on and do your karma.