Perception Power

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Once there was a holy man who traveled between villages in his home country. He was very wise and stories of his great teachings had spread across the land. Hundreds of people followed him wherever he went to listen to his teachings.

One day he came to a new village, and many people gathered in the Village Square to greet him. Suddenly a very angry peasant came up to him and began to verbally assault him. He said he was a fake and that he was misleading people telling them lies and using them for his own greedy purposes.

He went on and on and on, using every foul language in the book, red in the face and spitting as he ranted. The holy man just waited until the man had totally exhausted himself and stopped talking. Then in a deep and calm voice he asked him the following question.

"If someone offers you a gift but you don't accept it, whose gift is it?" The man was completely taken aback, but blurted out that the giver most certainly still owned the gift. The holy man then said "I don't want your gift of offensive accusations, you can keep them to yourself" and he walked quietly away from the stunned man.
If somebody walked up to you on the street and offered to sell you heroin, what would you do? You would probably say no. You know what's not good for you and you make a decision not to accept it, and walk away.

Its easy to refuse a physical gift like that, but how can you not feel bad about something like verbal abuse, getting fired from a job, or losing a friend? How do you keep negative influences from bringing you down? Unpleasant things change into pleasant ones, and pleasant things into unpleasant ones all the time.

A man got fired from his job, it was a very unpleasant experience for him because his boss insulted him in front of his coworkers. He got angry and resentful. But a few days later he got a new job that he had always wanted, and it paid more and had better benefits. If he hadn't gotten fired that opportunity would have past him by. How does he feel now? He's glad he was fired. The next time he met his former boss he thanked him for firing him. An unpleasant thing was changed into a pleasant one. Pleasant experiences also change into unpleasant ones all the time.

Good taste, bad Mind
I remember an incident that happened when I was a child where a foreign family was invited to dinner at an Icelandic household. They were served steak in a traditional Icelandic way which they found delicious. After a few days the two men were talking and the conversation drifted towards the dinner they had had a few days earlier.

The foreign man said it was one of the best steaks he had ever had. And he asked if it was from a young calf or a bull. And the Icelandic man looked at him in surprise and said, "no it was horse meat. "The foreign mans face suddenly turned into a red, contorted horror mask, his body started convulsing and he bolted for the toilet where he started to vomit. It turned out that the foreign family was involved with a religion that prohibited eating horsemeat. He had thought it was a bull or calfmeat, which his religion allowed eating. And the Icelandic family didn't know any better. I remember thinking as a child that it was funny because the man had long since cleaned his bowels of the horsemeat and he was trying to puke something entirely else.

Do you remember the first time you smoked a cigarette, or the first time you tasted strong alcohol, or the first time you tasted an olive? It was bad, wasn't it? But you learned to like it because it was the "IN" thing to do. You changed an unpleasant automatic internal reaction into a pleasant one.

So why wouldn't you be able to change your reaction to another person? All personal habits, responses, reactions and perceptions are subject to change. They can change slowly over the years with new learnings and experiences or they can happen very fast like if a stranger held a loaded Smith & Wesson up to your head and told you not to smoke. You'd drop the coffin nail in a flash. Instant change.

Comments:

    peter desroches

    Interesting read on perception. However I have some questions to ask this universe highest part of god. I’m not inviting an argument I’m just trying to understand?

    1. How far does perception go before it turns into a delusional state when im dealing with unbalanced energy and forces that influence problems in my life that go beyond your control?

    2. In other words if the same thing is happening over and over again and you have not learned or able to over come it then it’s insanity right?

    3. Or when dealing with insanity or perceived insanity. is it a defect in some design with this universe?

    4. How can I perceive something that is bad to be good when I don’t know the why, where, when, and how it happened passed the reletive at the moment answer?.

    5. If I travel out of my comfort zone to explore the answers past what is reletive, isn’t that like playing a game of hide and seek or cat and mouse with my life?. When especially the answers should all ready been there to be found by being allowed for me to know under the condition that use the knowledge to help others in various ways .

    6. Is my damaged life some kind game played by the universe to see how Iwould react Or is it a challenge ploy concocted in order to indentify the politics of this universe?

    7. Is there ever a moment that when the universe plays with your my life with it’s laws and politics that it’ things its a very bad thing to do? Especially when my free will is questioned.

    8. What exactly in its totality is a life forms free will in this universe?

    9. If I have free will then why would you allow your counterparts to challenge it?

    10. If faith is relevant then why challenge my faith?

    11. Why am I being punished for being an unknown involuntary outsider, unwanted quest, a involuntary trespasser in your universe God?

    12. How do I get back to my native universe?

    13. Do I have a native universe to go back to?

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