Edward’s Diary Entry 149: Off-the Cuff A-to-Z of Things We Have Overcome or Partly Overcome

Anxiety: a wrong use of the thinking function stimulating adrenaline over nothing.

Believing: a harmful non-recognition of not knowing.

Complaining: an adverse and harmful emotional reaction to a fact or reality.

Disliking: a dysfunctional emotional rejection to an Act of God (which can be anything or anyone).

Envy: the misconceived sense that you can have what someone else has worked for without working for it.

Fearing: an illogical feeling of stress derived from unconscious trauma reinforced by habitual thinking patterns.

Gossiping: talking behind people’s backs about things that in any case they can’t help doing or not doing.

Hating: an adverse and harmful emotional reaction stemming from exaggerated disliking.

Identifying: imbuing one’s entire sense of self in a mere idea, notion, belief, assumption or falsehood and then striving to justify it.

Joylessness: being a sourpuss and fretting all the time, instead of observing how joy wells up from inside.

Killing Time: meditation can be “dolce far niente” the sweet idleness of reaching inward, but just “killing time” by not sensing the marvels of the world is out. Time is occupied by inner work and exercises when socialising permits.

Loneliness: a feeling of missing others who you think should be with you even if you know you’re not worth being with because you can’t even stand yourself.

Me-Myself and I-ing: the misconceived act of thinking the whole world is only there for you, and you alone.

Negativity: the tendency to pay more attention to an apparent fault than to a potential virtue.

Opinionatedness: sticking to one’s opinion’s at all costs, with no reasonable analysis of the vast possibilities of declaring ignorance.

Pain when sitting cross-legged: Well, partly overcome, no cushions needed anymore, left leg on floor and right leg almost on floor, relaxation helps, and sitting sessions are sometimes 54-56 mins long. So that’s progress.

Quitting: becoming superficially interested in self-development and then stopping suddenly due to attendant circumstances… Lacking perseverance.

Resentment: a misplaced feeling of having been wronged, but there is nothing in the past that could have been otherwise so there is nothing to feel resentment about.

Susceptibility: an overly self-righteous ego open to bad feelings about being criticised.

Thanklessness: On the contrary, there is much to be thankful for.

Unexamined Life: although examination continues, at least a plan has been established.

Vanity: thinking your bathroom unit is the best in the world, and disregarding all others.

Whining: similar to G, above, but crying behind people’s backs about things that in any case they can’t help doing or not doing.

Xenophobising: fictitiously dividing people into distant GMS positions so you can have temper tantrums about them because you’re actually pissed off by someone geographically closer to you – or your own self!

Yesterday-ing: mental process of continually singing a McCartney song about how you were ditched at some time in the past as an excuse not to start living in the present.

Zombieism: process of living like a half-dead or three-quarters-dead semi-human, who neither thinks, emotes or contributes to human development, but just walks around drooling, looking for food and harming others.