The Wisdom of Walking Away and Mythology (Page 1 of 2)

dreamosis,
Interesting you should post about this, for in my personal life for the last few months I've been getting big intuitive nudges to just.... walk away.

I've always known that that's the best strategy but to actually do it, when in the heat of anger, or whatever, is something else.   I've even been forcefully guided to not engage people recently through a series of coincidences that woke me up since it was amazing how I was "lead" to just.... leave it alone.

Perhaps in the coming years this will be our only refuge, and it's best if we learn it now.   I know I need to be reminded of this too often, but looking back I see my angry response as just a habit and nothing more, break the habit and you're free.

So thanks for bringing this up... another reminded always helps.   And thanks to lyra for bringing it up in the first place.

PH

There is no drama in just walking away... This being a world of drama, it's no surprise we don't see it much in mythology, I suppose. It just won't do for keeping the looping and feeding frenzy going!

But being truly able to just walk away is not as simple as it sounds, of course. Whatever one was faced with outside now has to be resolved inside. But that works! Cuz that's the only place of real change anyway, the only place of true resolution. It also takes self-responsibility of a degree not common nor supported in any common venue in this world. And courage and strength and faith and trust (in self and Self)... just a whole bunch of stuff we don't see a whole lot of on the gameboard of duality.

And we're back to the root of the Law of One, btw.

Great questions, dreamosis, thanks.

Maybe the myth of the one who walks away is in the concept of karma.

It is my understanding that the laws of karma changed fairly recently and 'instant karma' is now the new rule, as opposed to being served in the next incarnation.

Strangely enough, the topic entered my life last night, - my sister is seperated , her kids have grown up and left and she now lives alone, with her little Jack Russel dog.

Now the next door neighbour has been complaining that the dog is barking and crying during the day (while she is at work), and for some time now, my sister has tried every type of preventative medicine, collar, bleeper, comforter,etc available. The neighbour has now called in Environmental Health, who say the noise is annoying. She wants the dog put down, and every time my sister comes home the neighbour is there, moaning again.

My sister is very, very upset, and doesnt want to lose her little dog, and has now decided to move house, as the last resort.

I said, wouldnt it be nice if instant karma came down on the nighbour and she went deaf.   I then made the mistake, in my anger, of asking for instant karma to be dealt.
I was asked if I would like to recieve my instant karma, too, or continue to learn at a more gentle pace?  Point taken, request recinded.

If we do not judge others , we will not be judged.   I don't know what the answer to my sister's problem is, maybe she has to walk away. Maybe that is the trigger for her next stage in life, and the neighbour is actually helping her to make that change. Although it would only look like that months, or years after the event, I suppose.

Walking away  has definitely been my modus operendi lately.   The only times I do stay and engage (not fight) are when I feel someone may listen and actually be swayed.  For one thing, I have this strange need to feel incognito (gee, an I feeling Latin today, or what?), to fly under the radar.  Who's radar that is, I'm not sure, but it's almost like being undercover.  In that regard, choosing battles wisely is an art.

???Okaaaaay.

It makes sense to me what kinsei is saying, and I found myself nodding when I read it, like, Yup. Very true.    Running from a conflict out of fear or nervousness is to still be emotionally invested in it in some way.  When you just don't care, period, you walk away shaking your head like, Yeah, whatever, with a dismissive wave of your hand and an eyeroll.     In my own case, the one dreamosis is referring to in his opening post, I did "care" emotionally about what was being said about me, but I chose to walk away because there is no way to "win" against the people who were making gossipy speculation about me and my relationship.   I've seen them in action before, and it's a waste of time.  There's no tactic that can work, no way to come out a victor.  It's like duking it out against a black hole.  !

No worries....... even if it was a miscommunication or miswording of some sort, a good point still come out of it.    It's a point worth considering, the idea of fighting or fleeing based on emotional caring, versus having no investment whatsoever in the conflict and walking away.  One of my goals over the past year and a half or so has been to be able to "see through the illusion" in the sense of realizing that so much of what I would have cared about or gotten riled up about in the past actually doesn't matter and isn't worth it.  So instead of trying to squelch that caring down, and suppress it, it becomes a case of not feeling it in the first place due to seeing through it all.