In art school, they gave us a strange assignment. It ended up changing how I see everything, and it has very little to do with drawing.
If everything we do is ultimately for happiness, why does our happiness never last? We blame people, money, luck and circumstances for our misery, but we also blame them for our joy. In both cases, we hand our peace to things that are always changing.
In this episode of Path to Peace with Todd Perelmuter, I share how to stop blaming others, and ourselves, in two steps: letting go of identification with the ego, and resting our attention in the stillness and silence beneath every thought. That's where lasting peace comes from, and the art school lesson at the end shows why it's been there all along.
Chapters
0:00 We blame things for our happiness too
1:30 The blame game
2:21 Why the answer isn't blaming ourselves
3:10 Expecting others to make us happy
3:39 The illusion of separateness
4:50 Blame is a mental habit
6:39 Whatever we depend on becomes our prison
7:45 Two steps out of the blame addiction
8:01 Step one: disidentify from the ego
10:55 We are recycled atoms
11:33 Happiness only exists within us
13:06 Separateness vs. oneness
13:34 Where our thoughts come from
15:10 Step two: focus on the stillness
16:18 The movie screen and the projector
19:57 The art school drawing trick
20:53 Peace is always there
21:48 Thank you
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