• Home
  • About
  • The Minotaur Myth

  • Zen Fits
  • It’s Martini Time
  • Reflections on Eckhart Tolle
  • Buddhas in your Landfill
You are here: Home / It's Martini Time / Bypass the Dysfunction

Bypass the Dysfunction

June 27, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

The New Rule (that is an old rule) is Bypass the Dysfunction. If you get in a fight with dysfunction, you become dysfunctional. This is proven to me on FB all the time when I’m give in and get in a dysfunction fight with an person who’s intention is to fight instead of reach understanding. Argument is dysfunctional.

Bypass the Dysfunction means being creative and focusing on that which unifies instead of dividing. But it really means letting go of the Ego and it’s compulsion to react to an attack that divides you from your peace. When wounded, we want to restore peace by removing the imagined cause of our sudden dysfunction—which is losing our inner peace. We seek peace then by going in the wrong direction, into deeper discord and dysfunction. 

Therefore, Bypass the Dysfunction is a spiritual practice because Spiritual means undivided or whole, the One without a Second. When confronted with an invitation to become dysfunctional there are three choices or directions: engage the dysfunction and become dysfunctional; turn away and de-friend the dysfunction; or turn toward greater unity through an Idea that spontaneously rises, a creative idea, which is always unifying. Creativity is unifying. That’s how you know the idea is creative. No one ever thought of it in this situation. When you find yourself in a dysfunctional situation, that is an opportunity to become creative or spiritual. But I don’t like the word spiritual because it isn’t practical; it sounds otherworldly, being better. 

Being creative is being functional. It’s very simple. And it doesn’t mean creating some work or art, it just means being able to open a strange box you never encountered before. 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: It's Martini Time

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Ed is a Zen Writer and story teller who finds insights in the truth of his life in everyday mind and events. Learn more

Live without future

Search

Connect to my Facebook Pages

Archives

Top Posts & Pages

  • The Minotaur Myth
  • The Whirlpool of the Mind
  • But for the woodpecker
  • Walk off the Pirates Plank
  • What is the Buddha Smile?

Subscribe to My Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 65 other subscribers

Awaken Insight Meditation

AIM is a website where I share my Dharma Insights in my everyday mind. My daily experiences are metaphors that point to the Truth that is One. Paths are many, but the Dharma is One. I invite you to walk with me on my journey. I also invite you to enter into creative dialogue with the post, for then we push it forward and get some traction in our life.

The Minotaur Myth

Copyright © 2021 · Lifestyle Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in