The jingle of a bell causes repeated actions in a well-trained dog. “Pavlovian responses” you do call these, but are humans not so very well trained, indeed? Do you not respond robotically, as if programmed, to such a wide variety of stimuli? Do you not think that it is mandatory to respond in a certain way to certain types of news, to certain ideas, and so forth?
Does the untrained dog salivate automatically at the sound of a bell? What do you do automatically at so many things in your life? The tone of a voice … the pushing of a certain button … do these often not cause you to react in ways far worse than salivating? Yet all the more real do your reactions affect your physical body from these learned responses. We ask you today for awareness. Keep track of how many times you do “salivate” and what are your “ringing bells.” You may be quite enlightened at the discoveries. Seek true enlightenment by uncovering the falsehoods which keep you from expressing your true loving nature.