When an Asset Becomes a Condition
I've been working with conditions over justice and fairness for a long time now. Getting a bit of a grip on these helped me defeat herpes simplex, which I recognize now to have been, for me, related to feeling injustice done towards me.
But Justice and Fairness are related in a non-conditional way to Balance; practicing Balance is absolutely a good thing.
About a week or so ago, I realized that my need for Balance was what was creating the conditional feelings of injustice and unfairness in other aspects of my life. Since then, I've tried to work out whether seeking balance itself is a bad thing, or seeing balance as the "best place" is a bad thing -- but it's not. (Just the act of trying to "judge" good and bad should have tipped me off.)
After working the problem with Immunics for a few minutes for the last couple of nights, I realize the line today between the positive-for-myself practice of balance and the negative-for-myself feelings of unfairness and injustice:
it's the difference between what I do and what I expect or want others to do. It's that simple.
When I practice balance, I am doing myself a big favor.
When I put "conditions" on others of wanting them to act in ways that I perceive as just and fair to me, I bring conditions on myself.
My lesson for this life--I now believe--is about learning to act in balance and harmony and learning not to feel impacted by the actions of others in the sense that I judge them as right or wrong, good or bad, fair or unfair, just or unjust, towards myself. Balance is wonderful and harmonic when I practice it in my own life; it turns into conditional "justice" when I try to frame the actions of others through its lens. And historically, seeking justice means seeking revenge, and that's not a good thing at all.

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