Accept Everything– Reject Nothing
Rejection is defined as; to throw away, to refuse to take. To reject something is to attempt to exclude it from the whole.
A popular idea in modern culture is that “we’re all one”. Assuming this to be the case, it follows that to “exclude something from the whole isn’t possible. We can wish it wasn’t so; we can try to throw it away, but where is away? Everything that is, is. If it isn’t possible what actually occurs when we reject?
Rejecting physical objects isn’t too problematic. I throw away garbage from my house to the recycle bin, and it’s taken away to the dump.( A great word for the place where rejected objects end up.) The objects are still part of the whole but are no longer in my house.
When I reject a person the trouble with rejection begins to show itself. If I’m someone who’s aware of responsibility to other’s feelings, I will experience guilt with the rejection of another and that creates pressure on my mind.
The trouble is even more obvious with mental objects; ideas, beliefs, concepts. When I reject an idea where does it go? The great dump in the sky? No, it goes to the personal unconscious. I may no longer be conscious of the idea I rejected, but because it’s still part of my psyche, it still has influence. As with guilt, pressure occurs. We might even say that the consequence of rejection is guilt.
Every person, place, thing, idea, concept the mind has rejected causes a judgement to form which is the pressure to constantly reject that object; to keep it in its place in the unconscious. When an object has been pushed out of the house– out of our conscious awareness–it is still part of the whole, since everything that is, is. But like the physical dump, we can smell it. Everything rotting in that dump is perceived by the environment, and like the state of the earth today, on the verge of disastor, our individual psyche’s become unhealthy dump sights.
Acceptance has the opposite effect; the conscious mind has no pressure from an overfilled unconscious–the dump. It is open and free to observe without judgement as judgment derives from the rejected objects.
Acceptance is not a passive state but one of inclusion that, when necessary, discerns if an object is garbage and needs to go to the dump or if it can be tolerated and remain in the house. More later on acceptance.
