Not I, Not other than I: The Life And Teachings Of Russel Williams

by Russel Williams

Dealing with Difficulties I have had a lot of difficulties. Then a lot of the difficulties will disappear. It doesn’t mean to say you won’t have little problems that arise from time to time, but they can be dealt with quite easily. If you look back in your life, I am quite sure that, like everybody else, you’ve been up against obstacles which seemed almost insurmountable at that time, great troubles. But looking back now, you think, “What was I so concerned about? It was nothing.” Your problems today are of a similar nature. Often you only need to let issues rest for a while and they will cure themselves. One of the conditions of the world is time, and time is constantly moving, so that anything that arises within the world cannot be sustained. As time moves on, all things dissolve away. That’s why most seeming problems don’t need touching at all. Just leave them be and they will fade away. The cause of all this is concepts. If we had no concepts there would be no judgments. Therefore your emotions could act spontaneously as and when required, merely to show you the nature of things and nothing else, without you suffering. Emotions are useful, because they give you clues as to the nature of what you are dealing with. Provided they are not too active, so long as they are gently moving along, there is no problem with them. If there is no concept of what is right, wrong, bad, or indifferent, then they do not become too disturbed, and consequently they do their proper job, whi...