I am starting to see both sides of a problem, seeing things in the round. I am wondering about this?
THANK YOU. WHEN YOU BEGIN TO SEE THESE “SIDES” AS MERELY ALTERNATIVES AND NOT AS EITHER NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT ESSENCE IS LOOKING AT THE SITUATION. UNTIL THEN YOU CAN BE SURE THAT THE PERSONALITY IS REACTING TO A PROPOSITION WHICH SEEMS THREATENING. YOU WERE ALWAYS TIRED BUT YOUR WORK ETHIC WOULD NOT ALLOW YOU TO REST. AT LEAST NOW YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF THAT TO SOME EXTENT.
When we see the negative side of something, is this from personality rather than essence?
WE WOULD AGREE WITH THAT.
There is no positive or negative in essence. True?
WE WOULD AGREE WITH THAT. BUT YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT IN ESSENCE ONE EXPERIENCES, ONE DOES NOT EVALUATE. WE WOULD POINT OUT THAT THAT WHICH IS THE SOUL OPERATING FROM ESSENCE FEELS THAT WHICH WE CALLED “AGAPE”, AND THAT IS A FEELING OF TRANQUILLITY, OF PEACE, AND WE DOUBT THAT THE PERSONALITY OF MANY EARTHBOUND SOULS WOULD CONSIDER THESE PARTICULARLY STRONG EMOTIONS.
Is everyone’s essence bored?
IN THIS SOCIETY WE WOULD SAY THE MAJORITY, YES. TO STIMULATE IT OF COURSE IT MUST BE PRESENTED WITH CHALLENGES, NOT STRUGGLES. WHEN THE ESSENCE HAS TO STRUGGLE IT REFUSES. STRUGGLING IS NOT WORTH THE EFFORT AND IT KNOWS THIS. INSOLUBLE PROBLEMS ARE GOOD EXAMPLES OF STRUGGLES THAT THE PERSONALITY LOVES AND THE ESSENCE FLEES FROM THROUGH BOREDOM.
What is essence challenge?
SPIRITUAL GROWTH, FOR EXAMPLE; ALL FORMS OF STUDIOUS ENDEAVOR WHEN UNDERTAKEN FOR THE SHEER JOY OF THE UNDERTAKING; SOME FORMS OF RELIGIOUS PURSUIT; WORK THAT IS IN ESSENCE: THAT IS TO SAY, FOR INSTANCE, PAINTING WAS IN ESSENCE FOR THE OLD ARTISAN RAPHAEL, AND HIS ESSENCE WAS NOT BORED.
What is in essence for Warriors besides fighting?
MANY POSITIONS INVOLVING ADMINISTRATIONS AND LEADERSHIP; EVEN SUPERVISORY POSITIONS IN PUBLIC RECREATION AREAS. WE KNOW OF MANY MATURE AND OLD WARRIORS IN THIS COUNTRY NOW WORKING AS PARK RANGERS AND THEIR ESSENCES ARE NOT BORED.
How does false personality work? Where does it come from? How does it have to do with overleaves?
THE OVERLEAVES EXERT AN ENORMOUS INFLUENCE ON THE ULTIMATE PERSONALITY. THAT [false personality] EMERGES FROM THE CULTURAL IMPRINTING AND DETERMINES HOW THE GIVEN FRAGMENT WILL ADAPT OR NOT ADAPT TO A SET OF SIMILAR LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES. FOR INSTANCE, ONE WOULD EXPECT AN EMOTIONALLY CENTERED MIDCYCLE MATURE PRIEST TO REACT WITH MORE LASTING STIGMATA TO SAY FORCIBLE RAPE THAN A MOVING CENTERED OLD SCHOLAR.
SOURCE: Michael Teachings Transcripts