A great way to get a taste of The Work of Byron Katie is to watch some of the videos that Byron Katie has posted on YouTube. She currently has over 200 video recordings of her facilitating people as they do The Work on various topics.
Last week, I wrote about how to facilitate someone when filling in a Judge-Your-Neighbor Worksheet. A friend of mine wondered why I wrote about that when most people just call up to get facilitated. The reason is simple. The more you learn about facilitation, the better you become at your own inquiry. Today, I’m going to look at another aspect of facilitation
We all prefer certain things over other things. That’s natural. But if a preference becomes attachment, then the seed of suffering is formed. Attachment means that you no longer just have a preference, now you have to have it that way in order to be happy. It becomes dependence. Preference means, “This is great. I love this so much.” Attachment means, “I need to have this all the time.”
If holding someone to the situation is a good thing, then holding them to the situation repeatedly is even better, right? Not in my experience. More is not always better.
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