Feeling Guilty For No Reason
We – pure consciousness – can feel no guilt, as pure consciousness has no interpretations or opinions. It merely witnesses. Ideas are only in the mind; they are not mind-essence-pure-consciousness itself, whereas mind-memories are the source of all inner conflict.
Pure consciousness has no negative emotions. In the first instant of recognising some thing, wisdom is present, where the mind clears and brightens up, before it goes into its usual mode of ‘I think’, ‘I feel’, ‘I know’. All the while, pure consciousness merely witnesses; this is clearly acknowledged in meditation.
It is provocation that activates recognition.
Wherever we are and whatever we feel is the perfect place for realisation and eventual enlightenment. We are the conundrum to solve, and comparing ourself to others only creates conflict and delays realisation.
“Well, they don’t seem to have any problems.”
Then they have nothing to work with 🙂
Guilt is fear of not fitting in.
Fitting in to what?!
Others’ ways of thinking?
Piffle! Nonsense!
Whatever we feel our problem is could be the last straw – the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events which makes us feel that we cannot tolerate a situation any longer. So we seek change – or we put up with the usual script, and replay the whole show again.
Every cloud has a silver lining
– every sad or unpleasant situation has a positive side to it.
That silver lining is due to the presence of a sun.
Sun = pure consciousness.
Why on earth do we try to fit into others’ false reality,
and allow guilt to overshadow our true reality?
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 
hi Tony agree with a lot of this. Could you elaborate on your comment ‘Guilt is fear of not fitting in.’ I’ve never seen guilt in that context but suffered from it a lot so keen to understand it for what it is! Thanks
Hello,
We may feel that we’re wrong when we do not join in groupthink, and therefore fear subtle rejection. ‘Spiritual’ groups are especially prone to assuming compliance from everyone.
Groupthink doesn’t approve of individual thinking. We can see this in the news that projects compliance to stop using certain words, curtailing free speech etc.
When everyone around us is believing in something or other, we may feel guilty that we can’t join in.
When we are confident that we know the absolute truth of our reality and all that distracts us, doubt dissolves, and fear dissolves.
Tony