My theory is that all of our troubles start in our own mind with resistance to what we are perceiving and taking our resistance to that as a fact.
All the great religions tell us in one way or the other that our inner happiness is in getting over our own self. We read the Sermon on the Mount, and it lays out in simple terms our need to "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you." [Matthew 5:44]
That does not make sense to the ego-based reasoning mind. But the fact is that I personally have never had a blinding flash of the obvious that was about how I could get over on you, how I could win, how I could frame the debate in my behalf. My BFOs are about the beauty in nature or about what I could do for the benefit of another -- wait...is that the same thing?
I can believe my theory because I've got half a dozen people in mind who would greatly benefit by believing unto doing this. (Yet I'm still pondering how to get over on the one who has seriously ticked me off.)
Thank you.
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