Day 7 after Irene

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"Whenever you notice that voice, you will also realize that you are not the voice, but the one who is aware of it. In fact, you are awareness that is aware of the voice. In the background, there is the awareness. In the forground, there is the voice, the thinker. In this way you are becoming free of ego, free of the unobserved mind. The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego , but just an old, conditioned mind pattern"

"Ego implied unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot co-exist"

In my life, as in your I am sure you are constantly bombarded with ego. In the hotel business in is constant from external and internal guest.....un-relenting. Recognizing it ie easy and recognizing it you always is not that easy.....your mind drifts and you almost try and force yourself to be present. You can not force yourself to be present you just need to become present.....silly huh...forcing is a sort of resisting is it not. I came across a beautiful tool in Eckharts book the 'The Practicing of Now" highly recommended by me. I have had a situation with a co-worker it is a non-participation of teamwork, we work together, we have different idea's of management style, he yells, swears and is a bear of sorts and younger. I have more respect of staff to raise my voice or swear for me it's just being courteous and respectful. However he and I pretty much do not engage each other and choose to ignore each other, works for him but not for me as I have been carrying alot of resentment towards his unconscious state of ego. In the book "Practicing the Power of Now. I found a helpful and powerful tool.

Page 110 of : The Power of Now
"Feel yourself becoming transparent, as it were, without the solidity of a material body. Now allow the noise, or whatever causes a negative reaction, to pass right through you. It is no longer hitting a wall(resistance) inside of you"

This practice has changed my relationship with my coworker immensely as we get along grand now. We help each other whenever we can it is as if our mutual presence has changed from resistance to accepting and surrendering. This exercise it is immensely helpful with unhappy guests who complain about everything. They no longer fester in me and pollute my Being, a calmness enters my Being which is cool. Don't take my mind for it......test it. The old saying "it goes in one ear and out the other" was not true for me because it usually stopped in the center of my brain, the unconscious, and fester.

Have a great day,

Jeremy