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Bluelighter
I feel like I raised my vibration so much, in the process of doing away with all worries and concerns - I noticed my interactions with the general populace have gotten worse; my interactions with friends, colleagues, and family have gotten better.
I never give motorists the benefit of the doubt, probably ever since I stepped off the side of the road while a logging truck was passing through and saw his tires on the edge of the pavement. Escaped death, in other words.
But what to do when your content in your own placement and the bothersome concerns of others try your patience and such things? I think a lot of people in this section would rather just outright avoid political concerns and modern wars altogether. Forgive me if I'm wrong. But is it possible, plausible even, that the many concerns people have are in their energy and press on to other people subconsciously? Furthermore, if that's true, it seems to me there are some who have simply accepted these things as they are, neither minding them nor getting involved.
[A video on the Five Hindrances]
The last hindrance mentioned is *skeptical doubt*. When I meditate and focus on the meaning of skeptical doubt, I tend to think it has a broader meaning than what I used to think. Like-minded people tend to have the same views, social concerns, and general doubts. We can also think of these hindrances in terms of inner and outer struggle. Needless to say, going through the journey of overcoming them enables one to think outside the box rather than linearly; one who has overcome doubt in this sense is more than capable of showing what's wrong with having doubts and that vulnerability to their doubts and superstitions only causes us to further doubt ourselves.
Some websites that talk about the five hindrances go as far to say that beyond each hindrance - in the process of overcoming it - there's a sort of virtue that lays on the other side of that. I think it may have been this website: The Five Hindrances And Their Antidotes - Insight Timer Blog
If thinking about the rewards of overcoming these hindrances isn't enough, I don't know how to persuade. Honestly, I'm just sick of running into people who doubt everything unless it's mainstream.
I never give motorists the benefit of the doubt, probably ever since I stepped off the side of the road while a logging truck was passing through and saw his tires on the edge of the pavement. Escaped death, in other words.
But what to do when your content in your own placement and the bothersome concerns of others try your patience and such things? I think a lot of people in this section would rather just outright avoid political concerns and modern wars altogether. Forgive me if I'm wrong. But is it possible, plausible even, that the many concerns people have are in their energy and press on to other people subconsciously? Furthermore, if that's true, it seems to me there are some who have simply accepted these things as they are, neither minding them nor getting involved.
[A video on the Five Hindrances]
The last hindrance mentioned is *skeptical doubt*. When I meditate and focus on the meaning of skeptical doubt, I tend to think it has a broader meaning than what I used to think. Like-minded people tend to have the same views, social concerns, and general doubts. We can also think of these hindrances in terms of inner and outer struggle. Needless to say, going through the journey of overcoming them enables one to think outside the box rather than linearly; one who has overcome doubt in this sense is more than capable of showing what's wrong with having doubts and that vulnerability to their doubts and superstitions only causes us to further doubt ourselves.
Some websites that talk about the five hindrances go as far to say that beyond each hindrance - in the process of overcoming it - there's a sort of virtue that lays on the other side of that. I think it may have been this website: The Five Hindrances And Their Antidotes - Insight Timer Blog
If thinking about the rewards of overcoming these hindrances isn't enough, I don't know how to persuade. Honestly, I'm just sick of running into people who doubt everything unless it's mainstream.