Resentment & Reality: Tolle’s A New Earth

Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures? Can they defy the gravitational pull of materialism and materiality and rise above the identification with form that keeps the ego in place and condemns them to imprisonment within their own personality?

Complaining is one of the ego’s favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. Resentment is the emotion that goes with complaining and the mental labeling of people and adds even more energy to the ego. You resent other people’s greed, their dishonesty, their lack of integrity, what they are doing, what they did in the past, what they said, what they failed to do, what they should or shouldn’t have done. The ego loves it.

The ego loves to complain and feel resentful not only about other people but also about situations. What you can do to a person, you can also do to a situation: make it into an enemy. The implication is always: This should not be happening; I don’t want to be here; I don’t want to be doing this; I’m being treated unfairly. And the ego’s greatest enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life itself.

Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. Facing facts is always empowering. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is. There is the situation or the fact, and here are my thoughts about it. Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions.

The ego says, “I shouldn’t have to suffer,” and that thought makes you suffer so much more. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of Life itself.

There may be limitations in your life that you have to learn to live with. They can only be overcome internally. Those limitations either keep you trapped in egoic reaction, which means intense unhappiness, or you rise above them internally by uncompromising surrender to what is.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event—through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you—ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. Through becoming less (in the ego’s perception), you in fact undergo an expansion and make room for Being to come forward.

Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success. Without that alignment, you can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that.

Quote: I want to know the mind of God. The rest are details. Albert Einstein

Song Accompaniment: I Won’t Complain, Benjamin Clementine

Artwork: The Art of Seth

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