To Dwell Constantly in a Bird’s-Eye Standpoint

Nothing is as unreliable as impressions.

But because of their long-standing habits of thought, the people of Earth, in everything, converse by trading impressions and try to settle everything that way.

“Somehow.”

Nothing clouds the eyes of the heart as much as this word.

Also, the word “why?” needs to become a dead word.

Because a person who’s asked the question “why?” pulls out of their brain a vague impression from memory that they arrived at “somehow,” and tries to offer it as the answer.

Living soaked in a swamp of impressions means you can only see things through vague subjectivity.

You’re not drawing out the facts accurately and looking at them.

If you stay in that state of consciousness, the wisdom to bring everything into great harmony will never come to you, will it?

So train the way you use your consciousness so that you can see the facts accurately.

Without handing over the authority of your consciousness to emotional thoughts, try to take in things at a glance from the bird’s-eye standpoint deep in your heart.

Eh? “How do I do that?” you ask?

That way of asking is a close relative of the “why?” kind of question.

At times like that, just think about why you can’t look down on things from above.

The root cause is shallow breathing.

Then you can realize that you just need to relax your breathing, sink your consciousness into the Lower Dantian, and live that way, right?

All the answers are within you.

It’s fine to have someone teach you, but if you only rely on answers from outside, you’ll never get out of the swamp of impressions.

Always breathe slowly and converse with the divinity deep in your heart.

What can be seen is the shadow of what can’t be seen.

There’s no truth on the surface of this world.

As your connection with divinity deepens and your consciousness draws closer to divinity itself, every true cause will become as clear as if you held it in your hand, and the “why?” will disappear from your heart.

Look forward to that time, and for now, just devote yourself to practicing making slow breathing natural for you.

Then the facts, their causes, and how to make things better will all rise to the surface from the divinity within, and you’ll understand.