(06-16-2012, 01:49 AM)LsavedSmeD Wrote: Some of this I understand very well but the first large paragraph and, mor e significantly, the paragraph in bold is extremely confusing and I am having trouble coming to terms with it.
If I mirror someones impatience in my mind does this mean I should feel impatience too?
I would be extremely grateful with my brothers and sisters who are reading this to help me out by sharing their understanding or explanations of this quoted portion of the LOO.
My understanding and experience of this exercise is that the first step is to know your mind, discover a completeness within it. So when you feel impatience, you consciously seek the patience, in order to seek and understand that completeness.
Then you accept both things within you, balance them.
After you have discovered and accepted that completeness within yourself, you gaze at other selves. At this point, when you for instance see impatience in them, you are no longer affected by it as it is no longer a catalyst for you personally as you have discovered and accepted/balanced this imbalance within yourself. You start seeing another self as a complete being too, as you have discovered that complete being within yourself.
This is very difficult to describe in words, exactly what happens. Besides, it might be different for each, of how this is experienced. Try it. This exercise is very cool! Each time I have used it, I felt such freedom and joy. =)