Mayka, We create suffering by falsely identifying ourselves with our ego and making ourselves a me separate from the world. If you understand this, and recognise it as outside your "comfort zone", then I'd suggest trying to ground yourself in that Awareness where you can witness different emotions as happening - but not happening to a 'you' . The more you can practice this, the less you'll find youreslf outside your Comfort Zone.
Mike ________________________________ From: Maria Lopez <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 3:13:01 Subject: Re: [Zen] Change Hi Mike: What about when one is not in the comfortable zone? Mayka --- On Sun, 27/2/11, mike brown <[email protected]> wrote: >From: mike brown <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Zen] Change >To: [email protected] >Date: Sunday, 27 February, 2011, 16:20 > > > >Hi Mayka, > >Things still happen, but there's no me for them to happen to - hence no >attacments/aversions that lead to discrimination/duality. You can still chop >wood and carry water, but with no sense of an I doing something. > >Mike > > > > ________________________________ From: maria818448 <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Mon, 28 February, 2011 1:01:51 >Subject: Re: [Zen] Change > > >Mike: > >How does one function in the real world of survival as non identification with >the ego?. > > >Mayka > >--- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote: >> >> ED, >> >> If a person still identifies with his ego, then his actions/emotions will >>change >> >> in accordance with the situations and circumastances around him. >> 'Personality' > >> is nothing but a consensual label to these emotions as seen by people in the >> subjects social group. To dis-identify from the self is to live in the >> changeless Self. >> >> Mike >>  >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: ED <seacrofter001@...> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sun, 27 February, 2011 22:41:38 >> Subject: Re: [Zen] Change >> >>  >> >> Hi Mike and All, >> Excluding physical changes, it is hard to apprehend whether, in general, >> humans change or not. The most appropriate answer I can think of is: "Yes >> and > >> no." >> For instance, through psychodrama, cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, >> exposure to the Dharma, participation in 'human potential' workshops, or >> something else, his attitudes and behaviors have been considerably modified >> for >> >> the better (or worse) as seen by those who know him - but his basic >> personality >> >> has remained unchanged. >> --ED >>  >>  >> --- In [email protected], mike brown <uerusuboyo@> wrote: >> > >> > Hi All, >> > >> > Finally back in Japan after over 2 months in India! Ok, 'change'... Yes, >> > we >>all >> >> > >> > change every second of every minute of every day. What is important is to >>find >> >> >> > out what doesn't change. >> > >> > Mike >> >>  >> V asked: >> Sorry I haven't been around in awhile....I've been reading the posts in the >> > group, but I myself haven't posted in many months. I do have a question, >> > however. >> > Can people change? And by change, I mean can people change in a very >> >fundamental >> > >> > manner? If so, how is it done? >> > > >
