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Yes, there are many troublemakers, not just one.
But I want to describe "one" in particular. This troublemaker
keeps the gates of heaven closed and your feet along the
path in a ditch. And some of the roots of this troublemaker
are not easily recognized which makes it difficult to look
after.
This troublemaker is none other than "arrogance." It's aka
"pride." But what seems overlooked is how this troublemaker
runs the mind from behind by using less or seemingly
less problematic troublemakers.
For instance, sloth and torpor front for the backroom
boss, "arrogance"and arrogance has three heads: conceit,
pride and self-importance. They are actually triplets.
But the front men, sloth and torpor, are often overlooked as the
front men for arrogance because of the very nature of sloth and
torpor. I suppose we could say "sloth and torpor" are the
epitome of a low-keyed conceit. So we might not recognize
"arrogance" as the underlying culprit pulling the strings.
Here is an example. Let's say you are sick and tired, code
words for early sloth and torpor, of your house, job, friend, mate
or routine. Pick one or substitute whatever you feel "sick and tired" or
whatever you actually have lost interest in. OK. If you look carefully,
you will see the backroom boss who thinks you deserve better,
are above such and such, are more sophisticated than, are smarter than,
whatever you might be complaining about and are sick and tired of.
Conceit, pride and arrogance are showing up in the disgust, indifference
and misery of sloth and torpor. Vitality for where you are
and what you are doing has been consumed by pride, conceit and
arrogance. You feel flattened, drained and sapped, but you
don't know it is arrogance that drains you. Huffy seems to capture
what actually the backbone of sloth and torpor is.
What do you do when you see your own backroom boss? Laugh.
Yes! It will take courage, but laugh.
This part of you is a bully and needs to be faced head
on with "You are not serious, are you? Or "Let's get serious." Thinking
you deserve, are better than, more sophisticated than, smarter than is wildly
unreasonable and illogical.
It shows you have been swept up in some foolish propaganda
about an illusion which you call "me." Have a good laugh!
