Hi Kathy and Edit,

Thank you for such thought provoking doscussion on guilt. A subject I have always been fascinated by.

I think of guilt as regret with a poisoned dart. That is pointed inwards. Although it is wonderful to use regret as a way of assessing what could have been done better, guilt doesnt leave room for any reason or compassion, it feels too final and like a death sentence. Every person should have their next breath be a new change at change, including yourself. And guilt, in my opinion, dosnt allow for that.

More over, guilt is one of the tops signs of clinical depression, and has been linked to attempted suicides. Thanks for starting this important and often neglcted topic Kathy.

I’ve also written a post on how to deal with guilt. Here is the link if you are interested: http://talk-doctor.com/how-to-survive-and-heal-from-guilt/

Sending you both love,

Kavetha

guilt = the imbalance felt when some harmony has been violated, it also means the person is still under the foot of the mistake and no it serves no other purpose, than a warning similar to pain, the pertinent action/solution is to immediately pursue freedom and liberation, whatever it takes, and from then on to walk with foresight not hindsight, yes it can be done. if Ego is replaced with humility and peacefull detachment.

Dear Kave, its easier than you think, it is as natural as breathing, but not to the ego, what people call ego, really does not exist, it’s a figment of our imagination, the superego on the other hand is our true self, the energy that we are and exists before we were born physically into the realm perceived by the senses, which were given to us to interface with that realm temporarily, the super ego is freedom, our true self is freedom.  ?freedom from what?  from not knowing who/what we really are, once you “become” (how can you become what you allready are?),  freedom then you become a human agency against bondage in others.

Dear K: some may tell you to think about, wrong advice.  your intellect, your mind is not you, not only your mind is not, it is not even on your side. as long as you think it is interesting or cute, you are keeping yourself at arms lenght of yourself.  the right advice is. Don’t think about it. be still and know, really know. with your inner intuition, your real self, when you sit at the computer you are the operator in control not the computer, your mind also creates a fictitious ego and if you don’t notice. now your mind is controling, instead of being your servant and your tool like the computer. yes the mind bumps the person out of the seat, and the person sits on the ground asking. ?why did I do that again, if I know better?.  your real self is so perfect, if you could see it you would almost worship it. and that goes for everybody, we are all the same, sharing on the same consciousness. no this is not a cute or interesting perspective, if you are lucky,  “perspective” vanishes. example: someone asks  ?what is the purpose of life?  and he is told, that is easy  the purpose of life is love,  and it will be interesting, untill he sees that life and love are two names of the same thing, then the question vanishes.     No, i thank You.