Working Styles of Difficulties: Why Manifestation Fails

The imagined difficulty of working within the samsaric world is documented as three categories:

• continually trying to manifest something that is not in alignment with what you want
• challenging the world order instead of focusing on imagining a new future
• creating the wrong advancement and blaming oneself for it

Classification as to which method is being employed is helpful to distinguish what change must be wrought to the method of manifestation.

Conventionally one wroughts change through a process of convincing ourselves that challenging the world order must be done. To bring about change we set out on a journey of self-improvement, in order that we may bring about whatever difficulty's downfall. Bring down the government as it were in order to bring about peace. However, when we apply this to ourselves it becomes bring about our own downfall and then we will institute a new personal order in which peace will reign. This is a false promise. One does not bring about peace by waging war. Conventionally we see this working out occassionally but spiritually it is not the path of gentleness: victory over war - transcend war with peace rather than win the war and impose peace afterwards.

Also conventionally one brings about a new world order in order that our view of things will be imposed, which paradoxically ends up leaving us without anything to do any longer, and so we find some new paradigm of belief that we then set about bring into existence. We fuel ourselves on discontent. If that runs out, well let's just fill back up with some more discontent. Then we will be happy again, so we think.

It is a miracle of sorts if one can find peace in this existence. It does happen perhaps eventually when we sort of give up our chase, but more through discouragement than a true manifestion of a peaceful contentment being at home with oneself.

So this is the first of the categories that we wanted to explain. The rest can come later.