Tao's Chambers - Autonomy, Environments, and Jedi Conduct

There are unwanted things that we do unknowingly. When we have the examples set in front of us, growing up, home environments, and crowds we’re a part of… don’t let us say what we need to say due to upbringing. We keep finding ourselves in situations with people, where when we need to speak up we don’t have the courage because in the past we were told to not say anything repetitively. It’s become an ingrained thought, behavior, and practice. How we express ourselves, might respond, or carry conditioned behaviors throughout our lives. We keep repeating this cycle of doing things we don’t understand, and it can harm our lives in ways we didn’t want in the first place. Acknowledging this is the hardest step, but where acknowledging that learned or conditioned behavior and being conflicted in what we should do in that… and then we say nothing and regret. The moment we recognize what we need to do is where the work starts.

This can be many things… how we talk to or manipulate people, or maybe what we say and how, or habits we pick up. Over time we’ll discover things about ourselves that we’ve been avoiding.

Discomfort, and avoiding letting go of what we’re holding onto thinking it’s a part of ourselves. Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable could be something different from what we know and what’s better for us. How can we stop residing only in what’s comfortable and avoid letting go? How can we step away from things that are keeping us from moving forward in what we do? The Sith codes mention breaking the chains that bind, have you ever thought that those chains were the things that held us back from improving, the making of excuses instead of becoming more powerful over what controlled us? This is in solving our own problems and doing the work, not in the search for power and chaos.