Accounts Receivables II -- Recognizing we are on someone else's way

"Did it ever occur that each of us is a resistance to someone else?"

BIM 1 of 30

... here is the four forces always working. One, I initiate. Two, there is resistance. Maybe the person has no idea that they are being a resistance anymore than you or I realize that we are resistance to someone else? We're going on about our affairs, but they are in the way. But we are an obstruction;  we are resistance to somebody else's initiation - to the aim that they have initiated and wish to do; and they possibly, just possibly blame us, resent us, and all those things. These are the things that trample men under.  

BIM 3 of 30

The idea is of love, the Greek word Agape - understanding:  to understand, put value on whatever channels of resistance whether active or passive that comes our way. We then could say with understanding, "Forgive us our offenses as we forgive those who have offended us." We have been resistance or an obstruction knowingly or unknowingly as others have (been) to us.

BIM 29 of 30

Persons whose work is that of working with troubled ones listen to hours and hours of these accounts being recited by the troubled ones. It would be easy to tell the troubled one to forgive all the debtors and settle all the account, but this is worthless. 

The troubled one may say that all is forgiven, but this is just saying what they have been told to say. They still have the load of self pity, of resentment, the feeling of being unfortunate, the feeling of being cheated, and so on... Because they still see all these people (who) they have debited with debts, as having known what was right and to have gone on and done wrong anyway - just to pick on poor little me. 

Until the troubled one sees differently - saying they have forgiven everyone - only increases their feeling of being a martyr, and thus more inner blindness.

If one is really a candidate for transformation, one finds the way to observe self factually, not compared to an ideal - one will discover all these accounts and that the feeling of being owed so much has made one see self as a poor, unfortunate, mistreated creature.

When one sees this and discovers that everyone is doing, has done, and will do what seems right or proper or justifiable according to the way one sees at the moment — one truly sees that all the debits on that big book are false. That no one has tried to mistreat me. That everyone was just trying to do the right thing with what light they had. What a load is dropped from one’s shoulders, what a relief! If one continues to look and doesn’t stop with the first relief, one is truly a candidate for regeneration and is on the way to being a new person. One has found the narrow gate and straight way that so few ever find.

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