Where can you possibly turn?
it is said act but do not re-act.
we come with expectations
as to how a situation should turn
and how people will be attuned to our words and feelings
because wishing for the best for them
we think they are in our mind
and happy to follow the way we traced into our mind
BUT it is not so
they come with their own mind and mood
and are not cognisant of your intend
they have free will
and you have yours
if their will happens not to match ours
then, on the spot we feel a sort of hit
be it a surprise or a deeper astonishment
and you feel that your belly has stopped to breathe
and then, in the second following it,
how do you re-act?
actually you are in a state of amnesia
as you always are
you are on the spot as if you had never been taught anything
nor had ever encountered conflictual situation
and have gathered no wisdom whatsoever
and what do you do?
you re-act.
but here,
we have the time and the space,
the Grace to remember
that the only solution
is the one of the state of meditation
WATCH the scene
breathe
re-center, re-align yourself
by putting attention on top of head
and
LET
for God sake,
LET the Divine Energie guides you to new ways
to be experienced
why do you absolutely need
to think over and over again
about what happened?
Remember?
Where attention goes, there goes the Energy...
so unless you wish the Divine Energy to feed your trauma
again and again
that is really a sadistic approach : )
and is rather for those who do not believe in another way than of the suffering
hey that is also a choice,
but NOT mine
so,
you better watch the energy which is your personal helper and compagnon
and at some point,
you will spontaneously know what to do next.
so, summing up:
WATCH
LET GO
ATTENTION on top of head/on the Divine Energy.
Let the waves (situations) rise and fall.
Do not fight it
Do not shove it unto the carpet
Do not react to it
JUST watch it rising and falling.
then you will not feed it
while you keep feeling the energy
with your attention on top of head.
Because what you see is your own mind in action :
Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there.”
The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink!”
So he came back and told Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink.”
After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake.
This time too he found that the lake was muddy. He returned and informed Buddha about the same.
After sometime, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back. The disciple reached the lake to find the lake absolutely clean and clear with pure water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So he collected some water in a pot and brought it to Buddha.
Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said,
“See what you did to make the water clean. You let it be…. and the mud settled down on its own – and you got clear water. Your mind is also like that! When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You don’t have to put in any effort to calm it down. It will happen. It is effortless.”
Source: http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/spiritual-short-story-746-Buddha%E2%80%99s+Advice+to+Calm+a+Disturbed+Mind.html]
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