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Originally Posted by wolfgang  It's cool you have focused and made things better. It's inspiring. I do wonder how to avoid judging my current life situation while wishing for something better. It almost seems, to me, that to wish for something better is exactly the same as judging what is now, as not good enough (is that victim thinking?) |
Well. maybe the following perspective will help. Your current life situation is impermanent. It's always changing. It does not inherently exist. At any given moment, its existence depends on numerous conditions, which in turn depend on numerous other conditions. Also, a small change in any one thing has the potential to cause vast changes, because of the ripple effect.
It's like the butterfly effect in chaos theory - one flap of a butterfly's wing in a particular direction can mathematically lead to a chain of events that eventually result in a hurricane on the other side of the planet.
Therefore when you intend for something better, it does not necessarily follow that that you are judging your current life situation negatively. Instead you are acknowledging that your life situation is endlessly changing. You can't hold it constant anyway, unless you cease to have thought.
The alternative therefore is to guide, control and direct your thoughts, such that the changes are positive and pleasing to yourself. And why do your thoughts have such vast power? Because they are like the butterfly's wing.