As we refine lower emotions, the same energetic experience has a different meaning for us.
So, if you examine apathy, it is what? It's a withdrawal of meaning. Everything seems meaningless. No charm is there. Even your favourite dish, your favourite music means nothing to you.
And so, what is the higher understanding of the same phenomenon? It’s supreme detachment, withdrawal of meaning. Only through meaninglessness can meaning begin.
Only an individual who can see the absolute meaninglessness of this play of life has the courage to experience true meaning. As long as the individual is afraid of meaninglessness, he or she will keep creating false meaning.
So, the higher state of depression, or apathy, is supreme detachment; your capacity to exist elegantly without needing anything at all, from the external environment. This is a fundamental requirement for sanity, yet few have it.
Through detachment, you become capable of caring even more, because then you're not trying to control. You don't project. You can remain innocent. You don't need anything to be any particular way.
The transcendent state of shame and guilt is self-observation. As we go deeper within ourselves, we gain this supreme capacity to observe ourselves and this observation creates correction. Just by watching, correction happens.
It's not judgement. It’s observation and, within that, is the experience of Self as love.
As we refine suffering and grief, we are led to compassion. That intimacy with pain is what gives us access to compassion. This is the gift of pain. It cracks us open.
The call of fear is radical trust. Trust has nothing to do with control. It’s realising that you never have control. Control is an illusion and radical trust is what allows you to surrender.
Life is a constant movement, at the speed of light, into the unknown so if you don't have this natural tendency to go into a state of trust, some issue will always be there.
The higher expression of anger is commitment. You become a person who follows through, naturally; a person who has staying power, like a banyan tree. Nature rewards staying power. It’s staying power which builds our deserving power.
And the higher transcendent expression of arrogance is humble certainty or wise innocence, and this is not to be confused with insecurity.
Explore the lower emotions and their transcendent states in greater depth, along with everything else you need to know in order to become a warrior of wisdom in Anand Ji’s spectacular Warrior of Wisdom course, soon available on Sattva Connect. Stay tuned!
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