For anyone who, despite a solid understanding of the explanation of the human condition, still experiences a blockage in escaping its pressure and refrain from taking up the Transfomed Way of Living.
What follows is the most effective way of overcoming the problem of your extreme attachment to your existing defensive structure which blocks you from being able to experience how incredibly relieving and exciting the new Transformed Way of Living is.
You need to think very clearly about the situation the human race is in. Get all the logic about the true situation that the human race is in clearly lined up in your mind.
Realise that our artificial angry, egocentric and alienated ways of coping with the unbearable truth of the human race's and our own corrupted condition are ultimately not sustainable and at some stage we have to stop living that way.
Realise that we have arrived at the human race's end point to be able to keep on living in denial of our artificial and corrupted situation.
This all means that the human race urgently has to make the change from living that way and instead take up the Transformed Way of Living.
With an extremely clear understanding in your mind of the human race's, and of your own situation, you are now ready to defeat your attachment to humanity's artificial defense structure.
Everyone caught between the old way of living and the new way (Mexican Standoff) has to imagine this situation in their mind where the predicament of the human race really is desperate and we absolutely need a solution. (A situation we truly have arrived at, but which we have not been allowing ourselves to see because we have had to maintain a positive outlook).
Now realise that on the other side of this polarised situation there is this solution to all our problems sitting there, available, where you live in support of this redeeming, reconciling and healing understanding of the human condition, which is the Transformed Way of Living.
Well, if you have been able to follow the logic and actually realise and accept that this is the world’s and your situation, you will have got your mind into a sufficiently honest position to accept taking up the Transformed Way of Living.
So then, take up the Transformed Way of Living which means: stop using the old defense system which was: coping with our and your corrupted condition in an artificial, angry, egocentric and alienated way. In your mind, replace the unbearable truth with the relieving truth! Make the change; live life from that realisation.
At that moment, when you live from that realisation, when you actually do make that change, you will suddenly experience how incredibly relieving and exciting living that way is, and then you won't want to live any other way ever again!
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Assembled from Jeremy Griffith’s 'Sermon on the Beach', paragraphs 25 through 28
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