What’s New

BRAND NEW WEBSITE
      We are presently in the process of building a whole new website. The software and Shopping Cart we have been using has been sold and is being discontinued. We have to be up and running by May 19. The website will have a whole new look and the Shopping Cart will be different as well. Everything will be updated and there will be some rearrangement of things. Some items will be added later but there still will be plenty of spiritual lessons and helpful guidelines which should spark a renewed interest along your spiritual journey.
     FYI – When a new website is uploaded to the web, it normally takes anywhere between 24 to 48 hours to start working properly. And even up to 72 hours in some cases. Domain providers refer to this waiting period as ‘propagation time’ for all the changes to take place. It is simply the way things are. Be patient.

How to End Suffering — Crabbiness

     The commentary series below is focused on a particular negative emotion, painful feeling, negative trait or  state of human beings that causes us tremendous pain and suffering. Perhaps you will recognize that you yourself have had personal experience with this condition. You’ll find the explanation of how it causes suffering and how it produces detrimental effects in your daily life. You will also be shown how Truth can help you to lessen these effects and how you can eventually eliminate them from your life altogether. A new negative characteristic of human nature will be gone into each month. It will be great fun to explore these things in order to help us see through them and to be rid of them.
CRABBINESS by Moe Janosec
     When it was suggested to me that I might write an “End Suffering” article on ‘crabbiness’, I immediately saw something in me that wanted to … feel crabby about it! Meaning that it was a good topic for me to look into.
     We often pick crabbiness up everywhere we go during our day — interactions with other people, attention to media events, annoyances around where we live, the list is endless. We’ve been highly trained and conditioned to react to all sorts of things in a peevish manner. Unless I’m alert and aware to this, I’m going to pay a high price in lost energy and in unpleasant interactions with other people.
     If we alertly watch, we’ll see that right before the negative emotion of crabbiness, there is resistance of some sort to what we’ve encountered. Instead of letting something rise up and pass through me, I’m resisting or fighting it. And opening the door to crabbiness.
     One interesting thing that occurred to me is that Vernon Howard told us we all wear a lot of “costumes”, personas that we “put on” for different situations that we encounter. If the costume doesn’t get us our desire of the moment we often react with crabbiness. “I tried my best and if they don’t like and appreciate me, I’ll just go the other way and be crabby and petulant about it!” I have to begin to notice that sourness feels bad; it feels bad to me, if I’ll just see and acknowledge it. When we’re crabby we’ve fallen prey to the false self, which will always play both sides to get the feeling of agitation off which it lives.
     I was also reminded of when Vernon said that God is waiting for us to turn to him one-millionth of a second after we do something wrong. One-millionth of a second, think of that! So to abolish crabbiness I must be very vigilant. Instantly vigilant to catch the negativity when it comes up, to see it and to allow it to disappear in the light. The seeing and the light are the same thing.
     We’ve been given the tools. If I don’t want to be crabby any longer, I don’t have to be. A stronger and stronger preference to see things as they really are, without resistance, will dissolve the negativity of crabbiness.