03-25-2007

Is it true?

I just finished reading Byron Katie’s book Loving What Is and the main thing I got out of her book was the power of questions.  I really love her first question, Is this true?  She recommends asking this question any time you’re feeling angry, stressed, tense, depressed, etc.  She suggests that you write down the situation and what you’re angry about.

Then she recommends exploring the topic through 4 questions.  However, I found the first one to be VERY effective in getting out of the drama.  And I also relate it to Eckhart Tolle’s work.

For example, I modified the question a little to “work” for me.  For example, if I’m angry at a situation and I fill in the blank with…I’m angry at….for such and such reason.  Then I ask myself, Is this true?  Then I dig deeper by asking is this absolutely true or relatively true?

In his book New Earth, Eckhart Tolle talks about the relative truth (that of what we are experiencing at the level of form) and the ABSOLUTE truth (that of pure presence, being, consciousness).  So I ask myself is that the absolute truth or the relative truth?

For me, the answer to this question, immediately takes me out of the drama.  If it’s the relative truth, I realize that I am dealing with the world of form and anytime I’m attached to form, my imposter has taken over.  (More about the imposter in a later article…)

The other day my cat was really making me angry because I was trying to read and he kept playing in this fake tree we have.  My thought was “Vinnie should not be trying to play in the fake tree, he should know better!”  Then I asked is this true?  Immediately, I realized that he is a cat, he shouldn’t know better.  Cats like to play, cats forage.  It was MY reaction to him that was causing my suffering.

Also, the other day my husband was feeling “trapped” in his job.  I asked if it was true that he was trapped?  He said YES. Then I asked him if it was ABSOLUTELY true?  From the absolute truth, no one is trapped in anything ever.  From a relative truth, (the world of form) yes we can be trapped.  So he immediately made the shift that he really isn’t trapped and that from a higher perspective no one is trapped.  Then he realized in the moment he was completely free where he is at.

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