Life Can Be a Living Hell

WHY we STILL have "bedevilments"

If only we had known -- how different life could have been.

If I play God with you (‘Judge’ you by resenting you) and you don’t know about it – then that ‘judgment’ doesn’t do anything to you.

I haven't harmed you and I owe you no amends. There is no damage to repair even though I might be busily creating my own wreckage. At least you have been spared.

On the other hand if I have an ongoing relationship with you then a whole world of terror and abuse that exists in the typical alcoholically dysfunctional family opens up - and together we can bring hell to our earth.

To the extent that I can say things that will produce a resentment in you, in kind, anything from a nasty remark - to a look of disdain - a bullet in the leg – a well place fart in the room - or a flip of the bird, THAT is how we kill each other in our everyday affairs - going back and forth, dog eat dog, tit-for-tat – just like every family and workplace in the world.

But if you simply observe my judging, resentment fueled ‘assault’ on your psyche – then you become immune to my “judgment’ and then the ‘thing’ stops there -- dead it its tracks and the power-trip cycle is broken.

None of us would ever become alcoholic - or drug addicted - or addicted to anything, food, sex, hate - if we knew about this beforehand and if we had learned to keep our original ground.

If you are an alcoholic like I am then its too late for both of us. But now is time to learn how to live. Meditation helps us experience a place where we can see, watch and keep vigilance against the unholy forces which actively and intelligently work through others against us -- and where it loses power over us.

Beware of the next person who PISSES YOU OFF! See see if you can disengage from the game being set up. It is nearly impossible unless you know how it's done. This is why we must meditate. It is nothing more than practicing being there.

That is life. That is all there is to life. Believe it or not.

Peace and Love,

Danny S - RLRA
Real Live Recovered Alcoholic
http://recoveredalcoholic.blogspot.com