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# Re: About the Soul Mirror

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- To: "BardonPraxis" <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] About the Soul Mirror
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:04:40 -0800

    Dear Max,

    >> I have worked with it for two days till I came to realize that I
    don´t know what a root is! Can anybody give me an EXAMPLE of how you´ve
    found a root? Can "beliefs" count as a root? example: "money is evil",
    thos leads to judging rich people..etc. In this case is the primary
    belief the root of the other trais?? <<

    Well, let's take "judging rich people" as an example. You state that
    the root is your belief that money is evil. To my mind this is not a
    root for your judging another person, this is instead an excuse or
    rationalization. Any time we judge another person in this way, it is
    rooted in the fact that we see in our own self the thing we are judging
    in the other person. If you see gluttony in a rich person and this
    bothers you to such a degree that you begin judging them harshly, then
    this means that your own gluttony bothers you.

    So instead of a belief that money is evil being the root of your judging
    rich people, the real root is that you see parts of yourself that you
    don't like, mirrored by the actions of others. In order to avoid
    confronting these things within your own self, you externalize them and
    make your judgments against others instead of against yourself.

    When it came to changing the character trait of 'judging rich people',
    it would do no good to change your belief that money is evil. The only
    thing that would change such a trait of judging others would be to
    practice turning those externalized judgments inward, upon yourself.

    My best to you,
    :) Rawn Clark
    29 Jan 2003
    rawnclark@...
    rawn@...
    http://www.ABardonCompanion.com
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis

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