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Written by Merlin Silk
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Monday, 17 March 2008 00:24 |
Sometimes we experience these moments of great clarity where subjects suddently become self-evident.
I had one such moment this morning on the way to school to drop of my son. Driving up the street it was suddenly crystal clear that I have to be the change I want to see. It was a moment of real understanding and I could feel residue of the cognition throughout the day. This feeling of self-evidence got weaker throughout the day but I was still able to recall the feeling.
Feeling is probably the key here. This understanding occured on an emotional and not on an intellectual level. I was able to feel that knowingness that this is the only way to cause real change.
The experience of emotional understanding make it more intense, very much so, indeed, but it is also its weakness. Facts, that are easily wrapped into words, can easily be memorized and repeated at a later time. In order not to forget the fact, we can even write it down, so we can re-read it and remember.
With emotions that is a bit more difficult, to say the least. I personally have not found any way to record an emotion in any form imaginable, look at it at a later time and recall or experience again that very emotion. There just is no medium for that.
Good, inspirational writers usually manage to write prose in a way that rekindles the intended emotion, but that does not help me, if I have a revelation while driving a car, and want to record that experience. I wish this article were about my great find on how to do this from now on, but unfortunately I have not found the solution to this problem.
The only idea I could come up with, is to recall the feeling and emotion throughout the day in an interval short enough that it does not fleet you. Writing a blog or article like this here can help as well to remember, maybe even the next day - because nights can be a big killer for revelations.
Will see how I am able to recall this feeling tomorrow - maybe I can re-enact this while driving up the same street and experience the external circumstances the same way as today.
What does that now have to do with attaining universal serenity?
Pretty much all of it. During some of the training for universal serenity you will have these great revelatons. After that it is your task to maintain that emotional knowledge until the next session at which point it will get 'recharged." This will lead to the situation where you will have the ability to maintain the emotional knowledge at that level throughout the whole day.
Once this is stable we can go on to the next level.
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