Beyond Likes And Dislikes

As ordinary people, we know what and whom we like, dislike or ignore, and we become those decisions in life. This isn’t our natural state; it’s acquired.

We are not specialists or practitioners. We just decide, and justify our likes and dislikes through feelings based on partial information. This is the abnormal run of affairs.

When we become a practitioner, actively engaged in discipline and study, there are no likes or dislikes, and neither do we ignore. We adjust, like a surgeon, a scientist, a musician, a meditator.

There are those who dismiss things because they do not understand them, or approve of things because of a prior attraction, but they don’t have the ability to understand the reason for this.

Going beyond is going behind the scenes into conscious awareness, where there is no discrimination. From there, we can see what is needed, rather than what we want or don’t want.

An opinion is a belief: acceptance without proof.

Knowing is knowledge or awareness
that is secret or known to only a few people.

Unfortunately, there are entertainers of ideas,
and there are the entertained.

A practitioner – a disciplined person –
looks behind the curtain, and away from public view.