I sit at bench feeling the warm cup of coffee and look out the window at the busy street.
As I get older I am seeing life not as a story with characters but more so in a different way. Its almost like a key has been revealed to me to see differently. Life now looks like energy moving and patterning. Its almost like the canvas is being seen through in the paintings.
This seeing like this is deeper each day. The more I see it the more I then notice things that I did not notice before. Like, just how really messed up a lot of people are in their behavior. There is such a huge fight to build up this character that they have been holding up for so long. The fighting, the fear and the selfish behavior as many try to scrape for the last scraps on the menu looking for the meal.
I find this really hard to watch.
So, ok people are hard to deal with let's be honest.
I am going to make an effort to be a better person myself to improve my opinions of others. But How? How can this be done?
My thoughts are that the key is to see yourself in others. This is kind of like looking at a wave in the ocean. If you look at a wave by itself, it's pretty scary. But if you look at the sea for a while then the wave, the wave will show you the sea as well. A seeing through of the fear will take place.
So can this be done with people? I think so.
If I can spend some quiet time each morning, or find time in the day to stop and gaze at what I call Presence, I will be able to see it as its appearing as others. Even to a point where others are not even an "other" but a patterning of presence which is Me also.
This is the bridge to true self and others.
I also know that the whole world shifts when a shift takes place in yourself. So by grounding in presence then looking my senses will adjust because I will be and am seeing from the sense of Presence.
This will work as I visualize others.
What takes place when we are truly judging another person. Usually, we are sitting somewhere and thinking about them. What is there at that moment. Open Present energy. The other person is not there, an image of them is appearing in the mind. The mind is made up of .... Presence. Clear energy.
What is wrong with clear energy? What is wrong with the sky?
We see others mostly from the mind. Their actions are patterns of thoughts that appear. If your mind patterns to find something wrong, then I will continue to do that endlessly with everyone. Until a new seeing takes place. A seeing of how clear and boundless you are always.
We live in a time where people are really right up in our faces. The others and these lessons are giant learning opportunities about how beautiful and boundless we are.
What we perceive will appear.
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