Sunday, 2 October 2011

What makes us happy or sad is not Reality

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IF how we think about something determines whether we are happy or sad, then it is our ego that is making us happy or sad. LIKEWISE if there are two sides to a situation that matters to 'us', then that is also our ego making us happy or sad. Reality can only be one way or the other, everything else is ego.
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Alva Gosson We know when things are Real cos they actually ARE, and they don't need a STORY to accompany them to tell us how they are. Most things aren't real ;-)
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Alva Gosson like this post :-)
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Alva Gosson Qualify that: like what this post says (obviously it can't 'say' anything).
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Alva Gosson I ended up in a situation that was unfair... at least it suddenly occurred to me as such 3 days later which made me unhappy. So I made a decision to deal with it. Everyone i told about is said it was unfair. Then it turned out that the situation I was thinking about hadn't even arisen. All that storm in a tea cup over a story I wrote myself... one that even convinced everyone I told... my mind, my ego, making me trouble :-)

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