Message #41794

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Thanks Steve,

I finally watched the videos.

I really like how he says most important is practicing awareness. Realizing we have a choice, and understanding how much of our actions have become compulsory and how much are by choice.

It makes me think about samskaras. And I look at my family and my self and see we have many compulsory patterns/behaviors. I think I sometimes get bored if I am not satisfying them because I don't always have the intelligence of keeping my self busy in new ways. I don't always enjoy deviating from my patterns, even if I desperately want to be freed from them.

This makes me wonder about our animal nature as biological creatures, and samskaras.

We are all creatures of habit, that is why it is important to recognize, when God sends us people in our life to challenge our behavioral patterns, we should be grateful 😇 and not irritated. Good habit patterns are helpful like daily meditation but patterns can also limit our consciousness to a certain routine and thus a limited conscious awareness.