Impeccability means "without sin". And sin is any thought or action against ones own self. By being impeccable one takes responsibility for ones thoughts and actions yet does not judge and condemn oneself when things don't go right.
Don't take anything personally. Every individual's ego and mind projects their world. So if we take others negative opinions too personally our natural instinctive response would be to defend ourselves and eventually we fuel a conflict. The underlying fact is that our own opinion about ourselves is false as it is simply projected by our ego. True awareness does not carry opinions. So by not taking things personally we be ourselves from sadness and anger.
Don't make assumptions as assumptions can disrupt our Impeccability.
(Read this somewhere else but seems to apply here -
Be strong enough to stand alone
Smart enough to know when you need help
And brave enough to ask for it)
Asking is vital to clear up assumptions.
Always do your best, that way we would never give our mind the chance to blame us. Also most importantly this agreement of doing the best in every situation applies to the other three agreements as well. One cannot expect oneself to be impeccable with ones words all the time, not take something personally every time and not assume occasionally but certainly one can do the best at all times.
To keep these agreements old conditioning has to be released. Conditioning is like a parasite that thrives on our ego, breeds on mind and eventually hurts our heart. Only awareness can overcome the ego that judges oneself. But the ego is so tricky that when awareness clarifies a situation the ego will try to possess even the awareness and wanting it to stay all the time sadly the moment the ego thinks this the awareness disappears.
Awareness cannot be manifested by thought or a certain method but by discipline to be ourselves, no matter what.
Imagine a life without judgment, one has no necessity to be right or make another person wrong. Then life is pure compassion.
Don't take anything personally. Every individual's ego and mind projects their world. So if we take others negative opinions too personally our natural instinctive response would be to defend ourselves and eventually we fuel a conflict. The underlying fact is that our own opinion about ourselves is false as it is simply projected by our ego. True awareness does not carry opinions. So by not taking things personally we be ourselves from sadness and anger.
Don't make assumptions as assumptions can disrupt our Impeccability.
(Read this somewhere else but seems to apply here -
Be strong enough to stand alone
Smart enough to know when you need help
And brave enough to ask for it)
Asking is vital to clear up assumptions.
Always do your best, that way we would never give our mind the chance to blame us. Also most importantly this agreement of doing the best in every situation applies to the other three agreements as well. One cannot expect oneself to be impeccable with ones words all the time, not take something personally every time and not assume occasionally but certainly one can do the best at all times.
To keep these agreements old conditioning has to be released. Conditioning is like a parasite that thrives on our ego, breeds on mind and eventually hurts our heart. Only awareness can overcome the ego that judges oneself. But the ego is so tricky that when awareness clarifies a situation the ego will try to possess even the awareness and wanting it to stay all the time sadly the moment the ego thinks this the awareness disappears.
Awareness cannot be manifested by thought or a certain method but by discipline to be ourselves, no matter what.
Imagine a life without judgment, one has no necessity to be right or make another person wrong. Then life is pure compassion.
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