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company is felt within as something which is continous with the thought. Only I tend to ignore this at times and consequently feel repentful.
Repentance should lead to learning and that means we should not be repeating the same mistake again and again.
More on Ten Commandments:
1. No one crosses the river three by fourths. Practice the Commandments properly and try to be deserving of the grace of the Master.
2. All negative emotions are very heavy on the heart. Try to see Master in all those who you feel harmed you and learn lessons in life which grant peace. Then revenge may not be your option.
3. While critical analysis is necessary we need not be unduly unkind to ourselves. The lapses that you feel in the implementation of the Commandments of the Master will make you over come them.
4. Without going to the merits and demerits of your version of the thesis of Winnicott (whom I have not studied) I must say I got amused when this problem is linked with the problem of moulding ones life so as to develop love and piety in others. (The 9th Commandment). I understand from varying figures of statistics that the percentage of human population deprived of the love of mother and father is more than 50% and the percentage is more in the case of the so called developed Nations. I am not sure. The thesis of the Psychoanalyst in consideration is based on an odd, yet fairly popular version of love as something possessive. Love as sharing and sacrificing is something that cannot be confused with the type of love the psychologists have been theorizing about. As a matter of fact the whole of psychology and psycho analysis rests on what they call the Pleasure Principle. I donot want to digress further in this regard.
5. Following the 9th Commandment is a development over the conditions of following
the previous 8 Commandments and cannot be taken in isolation. If a person A has a relationship of love with B it can change if the relationship is bi-polar one. But if the Master is made the connecting link, then we get a picture of A being connected to M who is also connected to B and A and B are also connected. Then the energy of love flows from A to B and A to M to B and vice versa. Then