Excerpt taken from The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz
You are beginning a new class with a new teacher and you have looked forward to it for a long time. On the first day of class, you run into someone who took the class before, who tells you, "oh that instructor is such a pompous jerk! He doesnt know what he is talking about, and he is such a pervert too, so watch out!"
You are immediately imprinted with the word and the emotional code the person had when saying this, but what you are not aware of is his or her motivation in telling you. This person could be angry for failing the class or simply making an assumption based on fears and prejudices, but because you have learned to ingest information like a child, some part of you believes this gossip... As the teacher speak, you feel the poison come up inside you and you dont realize you see the teacher through the eyes of the person who gave you that gossip. Then you start talking to other people in the class about this, and they start to see the teacher int he same way...
All this mess can be caused by one little computer virus. One little piece of misinformation can break down communication between people, causing every person it touches to become infected and contagious to others. Imagine that every single time others gossip to you, they insert a computer virus into your mind, causing you to think a little less clearly every time. Then imagine that in an effort to clean up your own confusion and get some relief from the poison, you gossip and spread theses viruses to someone else.
Now imagine this pattern going on in a never-ending chain between all humans on the earth. The result is a world full of humans who read information through circuits that are clogged with a poisonous, contagious virus.
You are beginning a new class with a new teacher and you have looked forward to it for a long time. On the first day of class, you run into someone who took the class before, who tells you, "oh that instructor is such a pompous jerk! He doesnt know what he is talking about, and he is such a pervert too, so watch out!"
You are immediately imprinted with the word and the emotional code the person had when saying this, but what you are not aware of is his or her motivation in telling you. This person could be angry for failing the class or simply making an assumption based on fears and prejudices, but because you have learned to ingest information like a child, some part of you believes this gossip... As the teacher speak, you feel the poison come up inside you and you dont realize you see the teacher through the eyes of the person who gave you that gossip. Then you start talking to other people in the class about this, and they start to see the teacher int he same way...
All this mess can be caused by one little computer virus. One little piece of misinformation can break down communication between people, causing every person it touches to become infected and contagious to others. Imagine that every single time others gossip to you, they insert a computer virus into your mind, causing you to think a little less clearly every time. Then imagine that in an effort to clean up your own confusion and get some relief from the poison, you gossip and spread theses viruses to someone else.
Now imagine this pattern going on in a never-ending chain between all humans on the earth. The result is a world full of humans who read information through circuits that are clogged with a poisonous, contagious virus.
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