We’re not here to give reasons to sadness

“It is a chemistry that we describe, historically as melancholy, sadness. Anyone who carries any individuality in their design, it doesn't matter where it is, and how much of it they have. They're carrying the chemistry of melancholy. And as you can see from the title of this lecture, “melancholy & creativity”, that they are one and the same thing, they are both byproducts of the chemistry of being individual. Now, this goes back to where I began. With human beings and their relationship to chemistry, it can be devastating.

If you attach reasons to the chemistry of being individual. You know, you wake up in the morning, and you're sad. You know, the way in which the not-self mind operates is that it's immediately going to jump on that sadness in order to be able to support or not some decision or not, that it's going to make mentally, it's going to make up a reason, it's going to say “I woke up sad, because of this, because of that, because of the other thing”. And the moment that you do that to yourself, in the moment that your mind jumps on that what you get is a decision making process that says “I'm going to fix the sadness”, or “I'm going to indulge in the sadness because…” and it goes on and on….

You know, so you end up taking uppers to make you feel good. And you know, you end up drinking too much. And you end up doing all kinds of things, because there's all kinds of reactions to the assumption that there's a reason that your sadness never goes away. And it never goes away. It's an imprint. And it's an imprint that carries the chemistry and there is nothing you couldn't be able to do, you're not going to be able to escape it other than death, it's just there and you're not going to be able to fix it.

Because there's nothing to fix! It is like saying you want to fix the emotional system, there's nothing to fix. It's just the way that it works. You know, it works in waves up and down, it's the way it goes. But the moment you attach a reason to it, the moment you attach a reason to your sadness, boy, do you put yourself in a bad space in this life, you do. And you've got to make decisions that are detrimental to you because they're decisions that are based on something that simply not true and is made up, YOU made up a reason.

No matter what you get from this particular lecture today, the most important thing to learn is that we are not here to make up the reasons for chemistry. We're not. Otherwise, we're never going to be able to take advantage of the beauty that it offers.

You know, the emotional being that has the patience to go through their way before they make a decision has a rich, deep collection to work from. It's very profound, the way in which that works, to take advantage of the chemistry in order to be able to get all the different perspectives before one can be clear. And it's the same thing with individuality.

The moment that you stop placing a reason on sadness is the moment that you transform it into the Muse, it is the moment that you open up the possibility for the creative potential that's there in that particular gate or channel or configuration to emerge. And it's just the same chemistry.

You know, the great battle in human design is with the mind. And it's an obvious battle because it's the way we perceive our existence. So it has great influence on the way we take in phenomenon. And you know, from the moment you come into this life, you are trained to think your mind is in control of what is your life. And it's only until you can step away from your mind making decisions for you that you're going to be able to really gain the benefits of what it needs to be individual in any way or anything else.

Because the thing to grasp about Mind is that it doesn't know which is better in any this and that. It just collects data. It collects information and it guesses, that's what it does. It's always guessing and it always has a backup, because that's the way mine works. “Oh, that didn't work. Oh well. Okay, let's try this.” It doesn't know, it can't. And so the moment that you let your mind feed on your sadness, it is going to feed on your sadness and it is going to feed on the openness in your design, and your not-self mind is going to take off from there, and you don't get what's there for you. You don't. You don't get to live out the magic that is there. Because of course, creativity is something that is, you know, so important to what it is for us to be humans.”

| Our dude, Ra

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