The Wisdom Pool

Isn't it true that the minute something happens, there is a reaction that takes place to the event, and the reaction forms as a stimulus by which we then want to figure out how to resolve this pain that we're in, fix the person, or change the condition so that the disturbance we're feeling will go away?

This means that in the moment where there is disturbance, we are meeting the disturbance with further disturbance. The disturbed is an effect of the disturbance. Can an effect change anything? No. An effect can only give rise to conditions that are at the same level of its reality. The nature that produces a problem isn't about to fix it. But in the divided mind, the nature that produces the problem believes that it is apart from the nature that produced it. In other words, there is my reaction to you and then me hating myself for trying to fix you, and I believe I'm different from the reaction I had. But the self that is identified with the reaction is an effect of the event, and it cannot change anything. It can only perpetuate it.

Here is what has to happen: The disturbance comes, whatever its source, and rather than going into that state of agitated thought, of resisting the moment -- trying to resolve the thought that is troubling me with more rationalization, more justification -- I move into a certain order of passivity. Instead of becoming caught up in the disturbance and meeting the turbulence through this disturbed self that wants to resolve it, I go inwardly still. I become aware of my own disturbed waters.

You don't throw a stone into a pond to get rid of a ripple. The psychology that disturbs the waters is part of the disturbance that brought us into the waters. Instead, we're going to become still and enter a pool of wisdom. To become still means that we start to see the waters that are disturbed. So stillness doesn't mean to steel oneself up and say, "I'm still. I'm flat. There's no disturbance here." It means instead that we bring our attention to this awareness we have of the disturbance. The awareness of a disturbance is the wisdom pool having become still because we are surrendering disorder to a greater order. This allows us to recognize that which almost no one on this earth understands, and that is that chaos cannot resolve chaos. The idea is the ability the human being has to shift his or her sense of self and the relationships that it involves from one world into a world that already exists inside of them.

Awareness is itself a field of integrity. It is a communicative field. It is a field that touches all things without touching the things itself, and it integrates all aspects in that field. To enter into that field, to come awake -- and rather than meet the disturbance with that self that has been disturbed and its false solutions -- is the beginning of the recognition that there is an order of my self that pursues what it does because it perpetuates itself, not because it brings an end to itself. Nothing EVER brings an end to itself...It's unnatural.

Enter the wisdom pool. Find out what happens. Experiment. Oh, what a beautiful word that is: experiment. You will find yourself unquestionably disturbed in the next ten seconds... (if you're not already now). Bring it into the field of your awareness. Enter into it. Stay there until the waters get still in the wisdom pool. I promise you, once the waters get still, the problem you thought you had will be seen as the promise of a new order of yourself, instead of something that continues to cause you pain. Do the work and you'll find this out for yourself.

Alright...Enough philosophising, it's time to go to work. ...lol