There's a saying that: "The issue is not the issue... it's the relationship you have to the issue, that's the issue"!! For me, this is something that is always unfolding before me... The issue is never the issue... I might like to think it is... I might believe that it is... but the issue is not the issue... It is the relationship that I am having to the issue, that is the issue! The driver who cuts me off in traffic is not the issue... the issue is how I am relating to being cut off in traffic that is the issue... I can hold it as something that is annoying and frustrating and irritating... I can blame the other driver for being so crazy and irresponsible and everything else... but that's not the issue... And me blaming others for things just keeps me stuck...
There was a quote I read the other day...
"Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden." Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
Isn't that just the truth!!! If I see something as being a burden, and I resist it and get pissed off at it, and feel overwhelmed by it... then that is exactly what is going to show up... But if I alter my relationship to the issue... if I hold it, not as a burden, but as something wonderful and exciting and an adventure... then it is going to alter tremendously...
The issue is not the issue... No matter what it might be... The issue is not what has been done to you... the issue is not what you read... the issue is not what you hear... the issue is not what people say... The issue is how you relate to all of that...
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