Elihu Genmyo Smith
Is our life unhindered, complete?
Is our life unhindered, complete?
Are there
“incomplete” areas or conditions in your life - times, events or relationships
in which life is hindered or “incomplete”? This may involve a person, group of
people, situations or even your self.
How does
this “incompleteness” or hindering manifest and/or change the nature of
functioning? What is involved?
There may be
a number of these; I encourage exploring/writing of as many as you wish but keep the writing
about each of them separate.
For each of
these, can the situation be resolved in a skillful and appropriate manner by
you - and if so, what would do that? If not, how not?
What is your
best guess of what would occur as a result of your skillful and appropriate
actions? How would this "new circumstance" be for you, for them if there is a “them”?
I am
emphasizing “skillful and appropriate” so as to exclude a situation such as where we hold a secret, and resolve this by telling someone this secret, for
example about something we did, maybe even something we did to them, many years ago, which their
knowing about now will result in pain or suffering for them now. Or a situation where we
tell them about what we believe are their faults or inadequacies or that of
others. These are examples of self-centeredness, not skillfulness!
Unhindered,
complete - when is this so for us?
© 2014 Elihu Genmyo Smith
