Isn't it true that the moment we are disturbed by an event, there is a reaction that takes place within us? That reaction forms as a stimulus we then respond to by trying to figure out how to resolve this pain we're in, fix the person, or change the condition so that the disturbance we're feeling will go away. This means that we are meeting the disturbance with further disturbance, but we don't see that the disturbed is an effect of the disturbance.
Can an effect change anything? No. An effect can only give rise to conditions that are at the same level of its reality. The nature that produces a problem isn't about to fix it. But in the divided mind, the nature that produces the problem believes that it is apart from the nature that produced it. In other words, there is my reaction to you and then me hating myself for trying to fix you, and I believe I'm different from the reaction I had. But the self that is identified with the reaction is an effect of the event, and it cannot change anything; it can only perpetuate it.
The disturbance comes, whatever its source, and rather than going into that state of agitated thought, of resisting the moment -- trying to resolve the thought that is troubling us with more rationalization, more justification -- we can move into a certain order of passivity. Instead of becoming caught up in the disturbance and meeting the turbulence through this disturbed self that wants to resolve it, we can go inwardly still and become aware of our own disturbed waters. The psychology that disturbs the waters is part of the disturbance that brought us into the waters. And you don't throw a stone into a pond to get rid of a ripple, do you?
Instead, simply become still and enter what we might call the pool of wisdom. To become still means that you start to see the waters that are disturbed, and you bring your attention to this awareness that you have of the disturbance. The awareness of a disturbance is the wisdom pool having become still because you are surrendering disorder to a greater order. This allows you to recognize that which almost no one on this earth understands, which is chaos cannot resolve chaos. But you do have the ability to shift your sense of self and the relationships that it involves from its closed world into a higher world of awareness that already exists inside of you.
Enter the wisdom pool. Find out what happens. Experiment. You will find yourself unquestionably disturbed in the next ten seconds... if you're not already now. Bring that disturbance into the field of your awareness. Enter into it. Stay there until the waters get still in the wisdom pool. I promise you, once the waters get still, the problem you thought you had will be seen as the promise of a new order of yourself instead of something that continues to cause you pain. Do the work and you'll find this out for yourself.
