Self-confrontation and transformation
"The Work" as Byron Katie calls it, is an amazing opportunity for radical self-confrontation. Done with love and openness, the 4 questions of Inquiry help us to see our false beliefs, illusions of thinking, personal triggers, and the ways we make ourselves victims of the circumstances and people around us. This work dovetails beautifully with our spiritual practices.
Healthy spiritual growth requires the healthy growth of our selves. This means we are able to clearly look at our own minds, emotions, beliefs and feelings, without collapsing or getting defensive. As our psychological self matures, we are gradually able to see that a greater spiritual Self is available to us. Many spiritual seekers try to get rid of the self for the Self, but when we are not mature psychologically all that happens is our dysfunction and immaturity goes into our shadow.
This is why radical self-confrontation is so powerful. It brings all our messiness out of the shadow and into the light. And what happens when we shine light onto a shadow? Poof - it disappears! The immature self is so frightened by the light, thinking it will be annihilated, that it fights tooth and nail to stay hidden - not realizing that in the light - this disappearance is really an amazing transformation. Nothing is lost, everything is reborn. Like the caterpillar, melting into nothing, to re-grow as the butterfly. Remember the last thing that happens to the caterpillar after its body liquefies? Its head pops off!!!
Go on, let your head pop off - by bringing all that is hidden into the light of love, openness and truth! Transformation is just around the corner!
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