Understanding is the 'booby prize of life'

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Innerstanding
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September 6, 2016!
Understanding, I was once told, is the ‘booby prize’ of life! Most are
quick to say they understand, but actually puzzled about what is deeper
such as the ‘you’ beneath all that you’ve grown accustomed to from
living with yourself precluding a little deep introspection. The outer you
bares some reflection of the inner you. The societal protocols of what’s
proper or not may have merit to follow, but you should question it for the
authenticity of meeting your inner guide posts. To understand something
may or may not have the effect of meeting and merging with what your
heart intuition accepts.!
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The soldier must understand the commands of his superior who in turn must understand those of his superior, and not
to question it’s inner impact of conscience. Humans can be used as non thinking robots or face consequences which
hang over their head. Lying for the benefit of a groups objective is ‘peer pressure’ to conform regardless of it’s effect
on others and your own sense of honor. Truth is bent or transformed into something resembling its opposite. Untruthful
behavior and thinking accumulates and blocks truthful behavior. Weeds grow in the mind
of the ‘self deceiver’. !
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I just read where ‘’Afghan Opium Production is 40 Times Higher Since the US-NATO
Invasion. 90 Percent of the world’s opium comes from Afghanistan.’’ All involved,
including the American decision conscious or unconscious to occupy this country while
turning a blind eye (if even) to the effects world wide of allowing the unsupervised growth
of one of life and love’s enemies for ‘greeds happiness’,
which is ‘under’ innerstanding. !
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The follower of a ‘holy book’, to be a ‘good follower’ must
not question god’s (?) word. The ‘under-lying’ message is
you must ‘cherry pick’ throughout the negative ‘weeds’ of
scripture, and where scripture is more ‘feel good’, this
anthropomorphized personal conception of how to interpret god’s scripture has little
room for everyone seeing it differently. !
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Innerstanding is to communicate with your highest self, and that includes an open heart
as well as a mind that is aware and discerning. Letting go of the ‘attachment’ to all
negative memories is necessary to see, and be unobstructed by conditions that block
clear insight. The mind with a heart that is blocked or hardened becomes a troubled
mind that seeks answers to desires that lowers empathy and compassion for others. An ‘understanding world’ lacks
the heart of inner sensitivity for all. The heart is like the dawning of a new day, opening like the sun to
its full shinning. The clouds are symbolic of a ‘you’ that is carrying the luggage of the past
that needs to be free of the ‘clouds’ to feel the suns gentle rays, likewise the feelings of love
in the heart. !
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!! ! Arhata!
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