States of Consciousness and Our Life
The person who knows how to deal with their diverse states
of consciousness controls life.
Our state of consciousness is what we are, and what we do.
Our state of consciousness dictates our life and its
outcomes.
The state of consciousness is always the cause, and our life
is the effect. Our life is how we respond to life's events, and our response is
determined by our state of consciousness.
Imagine that we can change our state of consciousness at
will. Imagine that we can make use of certain skills, powers, faculties, the
knowledge and understanding of certain principles to do this.
This would mean that we would be able to avoid suffering.
We actually create the circumstances for the problems that
we have to arise in our life. Our circumstances are always determined by our
state of consciousness.
We make our life what we decide it to be.
A Process Behind Setting Up Our States of Consciousness
The process given below contributes to forming our states of
consciousness.
Perception → Concept
→ Emotion → Attitude → Action.
Every centre or brain takes the state of consciousness and absorbs into its nature so to process it in accordance with its own nature.
The intellect will take our state of consciousness in a certain
way and the instinctive centre will take it in another way, and the processed
result will be to perhaps run.
States of Consciousness and Suffering
We are full of suffering and we suffer more from the effects
than from the cause.
We do evil but we do not suffer while doing it. It is the
consequences that make us suffer. Which is karma.
It is not the action itself that produces our suffering, but
the consequences.
We always suffer because of the consequences and not because
of the cause.
There are two points to consider here. One is the negative
state of consciousness and the other is the consequences.
Within the first point there are two stages: the negative
state of consciousness where we may enjoy what we are doing, even though it is
negative and the second point is the regret or lament for what we have done and
it is a totally different state.
Responsibility
Becoming responsible is a
very powerful key to change oneself.
Once we become
responsible for the way in which we are, we must yearn for the change. To yearn
for the change is the same as contrast.
State of Consciousness and the Word
We can not use the language that we talk to the personality
with, to talk to the consciousness.
To contact the consciousness, we must use a distinct type of
language. A language very different to the language we use to speak to the
personality.
The state of consciousness encompasses the word. This is
critical to see and understand this.
Conclusion
We must learn how to change, generate and switch our states
of consciousness. This can make the difference between feeling ok and having a
heart attack.
End (2-Veneris-XLIV)
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