What is Projection?

In regard to what’s being shared here, please acknowledge & set aside any expectations that something or someone including yourself should, needs to or is going to change or be changed.

Let any framing that sounds like ‘this is a problem’, ‘but the problem is’ go. The aim here isn’t to make anything different than it is or to solve a problem. It’s liberation from suffering by seeing things as they are.

If you’re already ‘fired up’, the most fundamental simple truth is recognizing this too will pass. Breathing, feeling, remaining present prior to & aware of thoughts & emotions is suggested, as are all manors of alignment, mindfulness & well being.

Like a cork, when unfettered & unobscured, our true nature naturally arises.

This is always & already the case.

The more direct experience is inspected, the more discordant interpretations which result in contraction, tension and stress are seen through, and therein the more clarity & joy is naturally unfettered.

Inherently, there will be less reaction, contraction, tension & stress… and more enjoyment, naturally arising appreciation, clarity & response-ability. Simply put, you’ll feel more at home as yourself and life is experienced as lighter, simpler, more carefree & effortless.

When judgmental thoughts are experienced, the discord of the thoughts is felt. The discord felt of the judgmental thoughts is one & the same as the reoccurring contraction, tension and stress.

When judgmental thoughts are believed, it does not seem like the discord felt is the thoughts.

It seems like the thoughts are true, and therein an interpretation arises that the discord felt is because of something or someone else, a past or a future, a me, an I, or a myself.

Believed means the thoughts are believed to be true. The discord felt is likewise believed to be caused by what the content of the thoughts suggest. 

That is - the interpretation.

The interpretation is the discord - but the interpretation is believed to be true. 

The discord felt is how judgmental thoughts feel, and now, how the interpretation feels. The discord felt is not felt because the thoughts or interpretation are true. The discord felt is because the thoughts or interpretation are not true.

The discord or suffering is of the thoughts, and is not of you. That’s why the discord is felt. Thoughts come & go: awareness (that which is aware of thoughts) does not. The discord is - an interpretation which isn’t resonating - with you; awareness. 

The discordant interpretation is believed to be true, even though the interpretation is felt to be, discordant. The contraction, tension & stress reoccur simultaneously with each reoccurrence of the believed discordant interpretation. 

The discord felt might be projected via an interpretation being believed, about the discord felt. The interpretation might be that the discord is not how the thoughts feels to you, awareness, but rather that the discord is being caused by what someone said or didn’t say, or did or didn’t do, such as in a past.

With momentum of, or, a repeating of, the discordant interpretation…and therein the contraction, tension & stress as well… the discord of the interpretation believed might extend further into accusatory desperation.

This might sound like ‘people, others, or groups are out to get me’, or ‘people are following or stalking me’. This momentum of discord, contraction, tension & stress, and the arising interpretation is sometimes labelled as paranoia, insanity, mental disorder, personality disorder, delusion, depression, neurosis, mania, bipolarity, phobia, psychosis or emotional disorder. These labels, or, additional layers of interpretation are employed from a non-direct, ‘second person’, presumed observation. 

In all cases what’s overlooked is the initial discord felt, is how judgmental thoughts feel… prior to any & all interpretations about or names given to, the initial discord felt… which is / was being believed - in spite of feeling the discord of judgmental thoughts. This is like holding one’s hand on a hot stove, while discussing & creating labels, names and theories about the burn. Conceptualizing the burn does not, and can not, lead to clarity & relief. Only removing the hand from the stove results in no longer feeling the burn.

In terms of the spheres, What is projection?

Thoughts appear as the lens-sphere, or, someway-sphere.

Creating occurs as the arising preferences (thoughts) of the lens-sphere are applied to, or carried out in, the world-sphere, or, somewhere-sphere.

That which is feeling discordant thoughts is that which is appearing as the spheres.

Aligned thoughts create. Discordant thoughts do not.

A river flows of it’s own accord; a log added adds resistance.

Aligning thought with feeling is therein ‘getting out of one’s own way’.

That is, preferences - thoughts… about what’s wanted, to do, be, have and experience - feel good. Aligned thoughts resonate, and thus joy is felt - the joy of alignment, of consciously creating. You are the creator, this is your creation. All that is, is, because you created it, are creating it - by being it.

Thoughts about shortage, lack or the absence of what’s wanted feel discordant because you are infinite, because you are Creator-Creating-Creation.

Thoughts of judgement feel discordant because you are unconditional.

Thoughts of impatience, pressure, hurried-ness and unnecessary urgency feel discordant because you are eternal.

Thoughts about yourself which feel discordant, feel discordant because you are infinite perfection.

Conditioning occurs innocently via beliefs, because to be the spheres, to be experience - is to overlook, that you are infinite, eternal, unconditional perfection - which is being the spheres.

The root or ground floor of conditioning is the belief in subjects & objects. Most simply put - in separation; and therein, comparative thoughts arise. In overlooking the unconditionality you are, the discord of judgmental and comparative thoughts ‘point’ to the truth of your unconditionality, inherently in that these thoughts feel discordant.

As it’s believed there is that which is not not me - it’s simultaneously believed - I am this body. That you are being the body is overlooked, by the belief that you are the body.

It’s then believed you are somebody, somewhere. A person, on earth. The illusion of “I’m here” is an illusion of believing apparent thoughts. “I’m here” is based on “I’m not there”. “There” is linguistically common and obviously practical, yet in terms of direct experience, a “there” is never actually experienced.

Why is this?

The root or ground floor of discordant belief(s) is that of the subject object nature of thoughts. There is nothing at all ‘wrong’ with any thoughts. That would be a judgmental thought about thoughts, and that judgmental thought would feel discordant.

Attempts to ‘stop discordant thoughts’ are attempts to feel better, while overlooking the discord is of the thoughts, and in truth you are feeling, which is feeling, the discordant & alignment of - thoughts. There is not a ‘second self’ that thought is about, which will or could feel better in a future, or as a result of doing - because you are already feeling, and feeling, in so far as the word can point to that which is aware of - is already nondual, unconditional goodness.

Looking more closely into direct experience, it can be noticed that the thought “I’m here” is a subject-object thought. A dualistic implication. A thought implying there is a ‘second self’, which is not ‘there’, and is ‘here’. A subject, and an object; I’m - here.

The discord of limiting beliefs is readily felt as & by the Wholeness, Completeness, Truth, Perfection you actually, already - are.

As you are what you’re overlooking, and have innocently created beliefs about yourself, others, and the ‘world’ you are being… conditioning has already occurred. Misinterpretation. Misunderstanding. Misidentification. All arising of and as pure innocence, overlooking.

What is inevitably realized with respect to discord or suffering, is that what’s felt, are the thoughts, beliefs, misinterpretations, misunderstandings - misidentification… and there discord is felt because of the truth, or, true nature.

(Next… ‘What Is Purification’)