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Let's Talk About 'Unfounded Suspicion'

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I have a classy problem which is too many patterns to pick from and then to work on.

In last year's November retreat we’ve been diving deep into two fundamental patterns of the consciousness, the Pattern of Unfounded Suspicion and Negativity. Having 10 fundamental patterns and 20 behavioral patterns is a whole lot of 'patterns’' considering that these are the ones in Yuan Qigong Life Cultivation we focus on. There are of course thousands of thousands of patterns but one has to start somewhere, right? So the time is here, let’s talk...

Unfounded Suspicion.

I’ll start with the most important, which is, what does it mean?

Not much to explain here.

The name is simple and self-descriptive. Other than that, it means it’s imagination that comes from our thinking and how we view things. It has the characteristic of jumping to a conclusion and believing it.

Another characteristic is negativity. There is a twisting of information in a negative way.

When this pattern is activated, we put ourselves into a groove in which things can easily be blown out of proportion.

We can also become very skeptical or critical.

We look for what is wrong.

It’s like you have a cat with a full coat of fur and you want to pick through it to find out the one single piece of fur that isn’t right. This can get us into a closed circuit, wherein the consciousness follows the same route over and over, going down a negative track. As we go around the circle, it progressively gets bigger and bigger and deeper and deeper.

Not much new information, right? Sorry for being so boring today.

Moving on.

Whenever something goes wrong, we can so quickly find a reason and blame it on someone or something. Once you come to a conclusion about someone, the person blamed will always seem suspicious.

This pattern creates unrealities.

In case you want a story that depicts what this pattern can do, this story entitled "Snake in the Cup" illustrates it quite nicely.

In the Jin Dynasty a man called "Le Guang" invited his friends over for a meal. As one of the guests picked up his cup of alcohol and was about to drink, he saw a small snake in the cup. However, because there were many other guests around and he didn’t want to disappoint Le Guang, he still drank up. Later the guest left early without saying why.

Le Guang didn’t hear from the friend for a few days so he decided to pay him a visit. Little did he know that his friend had been very sick. Le Guang said to his friend, "You were well when you were at the gathering a few days ago. What happened?" His friend hesitated but eventually decided to tell him: "There was a small snake in my cup when I drank the alcohol that day. I drank it with the alcohol. When I got home, I started to feel very unwell."

Le Guang was perplexed. Then it occurred to him that there was a bow hanging on the wall and the snake must have been the reflection of the bow, so he invited his friend to his home again and poured a cup of alcohol. He pointed to the "snake" in the cup and said to his friend, "Low and behold, the snake is the reflection of the bow." Le Guang took the bow off the wall and the small snake disappeared immediately.

His friend said with a big relief:
"Ah, that is what happened."

His illness also disappeared immediately.

Can you see how this pattern can affect your ability to see things soundly?

In the story of "The Snake in the Cup”, Le Guang shed light on the situation, but in real life, that’s usually not the case.

How often do you view people, things or situations in that way?

For example, when this pattern is triggered in relation to ourselves and others, the sense someone else or something else is responsible for how we're feeling, and what is happening to us will be triggered, and our mirrors automatically go outward and blame the external.

It’s you who made me feel like this.🎯

This is a very common way that the pattern of Unfounded Suspicion gets reinforced.

From there a lot of emotions can be triggered. Your Jingshen can determine how your Qi changes, especially the information from the consciousness. When this pattern has caused a lot of unhealthy emotions, they will disturb and waste your Qi, which will have an effect on your physical health. This pattern can also cause damage to our own Jingshen because a lot of negative information is being created and activated, so Jingshen is affected in a very negative way. What often follows is feeling distressed, stuck and in a lot of pain. We can’t get out of that cycle.

Once we’re on the circuit, the phenomenon of self-fulfilling prophecy arises. When we have viewed someone in a negative way, we don’t interact with them in an inspiring or positive way. So the feedback we get confirms our suspicions.

This self-fulfilling prophecy is very tricky.

Once we fall into that trap, we feel justified in our views.

This can manifest in everything we do. And it can seem very rational and reasonable.

Is it possible that in this process this pattern lets you jump to conclusions with twisted, partial information?

That is what unhealthy patterns do.

This pattern of Unfounded Suspicion can be hidden on a very deep unconscious level, and we’re not aware that it can constantly be causing harm to relationships with ourselves and others.

Eww, or rather, yay, you could see its manifestations in your life?

What's your view on this?

These are the kinds of opportunities LIFE gives us.

Hopefully, you have a tiny bit of better understanding of this pattern, and it can help you to work on it.

Galling Teacher Unfounded Suspicion 🤸

On behalf of all the galling teachers out there, thank you for supporting us so that we can take action to change.

XOM

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