The title of this entry comes from an idea I contemplated today at lunch time, during my daily walk. I was thinking: every time we hear people swear, do we not also sense their agitation? Would it be still possible for the literal 'tone' of language to have a lower pitch, and thus become 'relaxed' with agitation? I also reflect that the reason this doesn't happen so often is that one already judges an emotion in terms of the self before it even fully registers in the mind. One thinks that 'anger', for example, automatically gives the stamp of attachment, when the real attachment might be the inner conflict of not accepting the experience fully. It is as if I am so busy admiring the outside circumstances that I am simply unable to accept my state of being as it is in this moment.
I suggest instead an exercise where, rather than associating my states of being with discreet 'personalities' which give rise to conflict, I contemplate the following:
a) there are no distinct, unchanging personality characteristics at all, but rather, things are always conditioned by other things
b) all states of mind are okay, and there is no need to set up an observer who rejects one state in favour of others
Please try the experiment yourself: how would it feel if, in this very moment of time, you were to completely and unreservedly accept your whole being as it is? What if you were to also recognize that this too will pass? Try to experiment with the notion that we lack permanent selfhood, and therefore there is no sense identifying with one's emotions in this way.
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