| Stasis is a concept that is used continuously by | | | | external life free of control. If we don't pressure will |
| whose following a spiritual path, or those working self | | | | build and when control fails there will be an explosion. |
| help programs, but it is seldom called Stasis. It is an | | | | If something goes wrong in our physical world it has |
| important concept and understanding Stasis will help | | | | gone wrong. And if getting upset or angry is an |
| people understand why they are working a particular | | | | appropriate response then get angry. |
| way. | | | | If we attempt to pass it of with some spiritual |
| Stasis has several meaning but in this context is an | | | | platitude or saying, (everything happens for the |
| internal that is held constant by a force around its | | | | best), it will place pressure on our spiritual being to |
| boundary. Suppose you have a population of people | | | | conform to an ideal that is not realistic. If we make a |
| and they are held constant by a political entity. At | | | | mistake than accept we have made a mistake. Learn |
| first the stasis is easy to maintain because the | | | | from it, try to avoid doing it again and move on. |
| difference inside the stasis is not very different to | | | | The alternative is to give ourselves a hard time |
| outside the stasis. But as the world changes the | | | | because we are on a spiritual path and we are |
| pressure for change within the Stasis increase and | | | | supposed to know. Each time we give ourselves a |
| more control has to be used to hold the Stasis | | | | hard time the pressure will build. |
| constant. | | | | Then there will be an explosion and we will abandon |
| At some point the control fails and the Stasis | | | | the spiritual way because we are not good enough. |
| explodes. In the physical world revolution, uprising and | | | | Nobody on this earth is perfect. The spiritual path is |
| civil wars are the result of the controls needed to | | | | not about perfection, it is learning to do the best we |
| hold the Stasis constant failing. Communism failed | | | | can. |
| when the internal need for change become stronger | | | | The way to deal with the pressures of the physical |
| than the force keeping it contained. | | | | world so that it does not put pressure on our spiritual |
| For the individual the concept of Stasis is equally | | | | being is to learn, accept and move on. |
| relevant. Someone works at a job they hate. At first | | | | Everything on the spiritual path is the same concept |
| it isn't too bad, but the pressure builds until there is | | | | repeated in many different forms. Learn, accept and |
| an explosion. Married couples do nothing to solve the | | | | move on. This is how to deal with stasis in all its |
| problems building in there marriage until it all blows up | | | | forms. The worst thing we can do is to try to force |
| and the marriage is over. | | | | ourselves to conform to an idealised perfection that |
| To be successful on our spiritual path it is essential to | | | | cannot be achieved. |
| keep the boundary between our inner life and our | | | | |