iamom | Swami Veda on psychology (Reply)

You can solve all your psychological problems spiritually. It's only a matter of transcending - not dwelling on them, but transcending. But not everybody has the skill to do it, the determination to do it, or purification enough to see where the psychology is getting mixed up with their interpretation of spirituality. So it blocks your progress. But there are those who have risen above their personal psychologies by resorting to the spiritual. Okay? Can you imagine Jesus Christ being taken to a psychiatrist's couch? (Laughter). "Come on, what makes you such a masochist? What relationship did you have with your father?"
--excerpted from a recent talk by Swami Veda Bharati

That's a good one. It seems to be an effective approach for most psychological issues or problems in life; one can look beyond them, rise above them; one can let the experience take place without the emotions getting overly involved.

I've also found that within moments after identifying a problem, it disappears. As soon as I become aware of it, it's immediately revealed for its inherently arbitrary and emotional foundation. Knowing that the emotional representation is not accurately reflective of pure Self, the problem crumbles away to dust before I know it. A constant rising and destruction of thoughts and events. A cycle, neverending, but not essential to the Self. The Self is the sky, always there, and the problems are passing clouds. Even when appearing to be obscured during stormy weather, it's impossible to look up without seeing the sky. Always there.