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Excerpt of the Podcast:
John Kremer:
“So if I am stuck in this storm of thought, the best thing I can do is allow that storm to pass or arise.”
Dr Louis Koster:
“Well, here, so this is something that you can find out for yourself. If you are truly observant of what's happening when all these thoughts arise that there is a level of resistance there, you do not want these thoughts to be the way they are. And what is interesting is that when you first of become aware that you're fighting against them, you do not want for that to come to your consciousness or better still, to come to awareness, if you then have the courage to let be, to truly cease all of your activities for them not to be the way they are, then to your surprise, what you will notice is that that is the moment that they will pass.”
John Kremer:
“There's something that you've said a couple of times while we've been talking now about having the courage to allow what is arising to arise.”
John Kremer:
“The totality to arise. Do you think you can allow that to happen without courage?”
Dr Louis Koster:
“Well, so what I mean with courage is that in a moment that you have thoughts that are uncomfortable, then our tendency is to either fight with them or to have them not be there, like we are resisting for these thoughts to fully ... Well, to let them be because there's a notion that if you were to do that then, they would become reality. And so what I mean with courage is that despite it is counterintuitive to allow for them that that is what you do, and that takes courage.”
John Kremer:
“Okay. It's in making the decision to allow the totality to arise that there's some element of making a decision that involves courage.”
Dr Louis Koster:
“Yes, absolutely because the mind tells you or you have the intuitive sense that if you were to allow for a thought that is uncomfortable, so let's say a thought that points to the future and tells you all nasty things that might happen so thoughts that speculates on something that might be disastrous if that were to happen, allowing for that thought would be the last thing that you would do. But in the decision not to allow for it, implicit, what it tells you is that you take it for reality.”
“And so the moment that you open yourself up to that thought and allow for it in its totality, you are doing something that is counterintuitive because from where you are in the mind, taking that for reality, you would then bring that to reality. That is the perception of the mind that you bring to that experience, and it is just an appearance. It's not real. So in the allowing for its totality of it and then basically seeing that nothing happens, probably winding up in a place that you realise it was just a thought, you then have demonstrated to yourself that what is arising in the thinking is not real.”
“So, no one can tell you that what comes up in the thinking, in your thinking that is uncomfortable is not reality. That will not make any difference. People can speak to you until you turn into a frog. It is only through your own experience, and that is what takes courage to find out, to discover for yourself that is not real, and that is what I'm talking about. And what that gives you is a freedom to be, which is just amazing. That is everything. To have the capacity, the knowing that you are free to be, that you have the ability to be free in the face of anything that arises in your consciousness, that gives you an enormous sense of aliveness, sense of possibility. You're no longer limited or boxed in by what every your thoughts are telling you.”
John Kremer:
“It becomes its own kind of reality that's a real reality in the sense that it is what it is. It's probably a bad way to say it. So that when you talked about it before, it's falling into the Self. And that's what gives you the freedom to act with, I guess you could say without constraint.”
Dr Louis Koster:
“Without any personal concern. The concern for the personal is no longer there.”
John Kremer:
“Okay.”
Dr Louis Koster:
“And it's more likely from that place, of the place of being, of just being that actions are more in a correlate with what's happening around you, with what is wholesome, which what is an expression of love, that which is natural and is inclusive and speaks what you are.”
John Kremer:
“I guess in some ways, I can see that as being, I guess you could say the unstickiness of being.”
Dr Louis Koster:
“Yeah, the freedom of being, the awareness that you are it, that you are alive, that truly you are reality.”
Thank you for listening to The Talking Diaries podcast featuring Dr. Louis Koster. For more information, check out louiskoster.com/talkingdiaries and subscribe to The Talking Diaries YouTube channel. Also, check out louiskoster.com/quiz and take the free quiz to discover more about yourself.”
Dr Louis Koster, distinguished humanitarian, management consultant, and published author served for over ten years as a medical doctor for “Doctors Without Borders” and other humanitarian organizations in trouble spots across the globe. For his humanitarian efforts, Dr. Koster has received numerous awards and has appeared on radio, television, and news shows.
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