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# Re: Mundane Relationships

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Mundane Relationships
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:42:31 -0800
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    Dear Allen,

    >> To be honest, the daily concerns of most people is beginning to feel
    like a chore to listen to. I am sure people are noticing this new
    behaviour. I even notice people getting mad because I do not choose
    anymore to "participate" in their emotions as I may have before. I also
    choose to keep my spiritual life very private and never talk about it,
    but there are always clever people who notice things... Does anyone
    here on the list have similar experiences and any advice how to deal
    with people that are happy not to ask questions in this world of
    delusion? (that shouldn't be read as condescending). <<

    Well, no matter how I read it, that does sound condescending, or at
    least as if you've divided the world into 'people like me' and 'people
    like them'. I think this is a fairly common stage or phase of the
    introspection/self-change work indicative of our turning outward what
    should only be turned inward -- judgment.

    I suggest that you examine these feelings very carefully for what they
    are. In essence, this is an aspect of the need to feel superior to
    others as a means of making oneself feel "okay". It's a putting down of
    others to raise oneself up. The end result of this is that one finds
    oneself all alone.

    There's an old saying that what offends us in others are the things that
    offend us within our own selves. When the behaviour of others raises
    our judgmentalism it means that we see the same propensity in ourselves
    but we'd rather not admit it so we look down on them as a sort of cover
    to hide what is also within us. In this way we avoid responsibility for
    what is within ourselves. The path of character transformation however,
    demands something more of us. It demands that we instead turn that
    laser beam inward and root out that propensity within *ourselves*. How
    the other person acts is their business but how *you* act is *your*
    business.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    20 Nov 2003
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
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