Talking and walking with demons (2)

Noticing a “disturbance in the force”, we become aware of demon activity.

The force – is pure uncontaminated essence.
The disturbances – are our emotions of desires, aversion, pride, jealousy and ignorance.
The demons – are our own likes and dislikes.
Our – is a mistaken identity of self, created in the mind by the forgetting our pure uncontaminated essence.

However, the emotions are not the problem: they are an outcome.

It’s ‘our’ likes and dislikes that are the problem, as these are based around the mistaken identity of ‘me’. We are surrounded by ‘me’ demon activity. Listen to any conversation: it’s all about ‘me’. Heck! We are constantly bombarded throughout our lives with ‘me’ talk – What I want and What I don’t want.

In the very first instant, the emotions are not demons – they are the activity of wisdom…surprised?

Our direct awareness (or pure essence) notes something – a disturbance.

This disturbance (an emotion) brightens the mind because it sees directly. This is wisdom activity. It’s a sort of enlightened energy. This energy can either directly remind us of our pure essence and we return to rest there, or it can allow a ‘me’ to react and take over again, igniting aggression which turns an enlightened emotion into a negative one.

When we return to rest, we are not reacting. This enlightens a situation, allowing it pure intelligent space and clarity.

It’s all in the mind!

If we do not comply to a ‘me’,
we do not contaminate,
and demonic activity cannot function.
It needs a ‘me’ to consent.

Nothing can contaminate pure uncontaminated essence.
It can only forget itself.