[Jonathan]

To progress on the enlightened path you must become equal-minded or neutral unaffected by victory or defeat, profit or loss, joy or sorrow, hot or cold, honor or dishonor, or any other pairs of opposites. When you are equal-minded you will experience joy and feelings of love and satisfaction regardless of outer circumstances. When you reach this state, others can no longer hook you with their emotions or illusions.

This is a very high way to live, and brings great freedom with it. If you are not living with that freedom, you are like a cork floating on water in a storm” being pushed around by the projections of everyone around you” letting their illusions rule and create your reality. If you live this way, you are letting the blind leading the blind” letting another person’s illusions create deeper illusions, and you both live in a state of limitation and pain. Be free. When someone throws something at you, you recognize it as an illusion, and say, "I love you, but I’m not interested in loosing my love and leaving my heart."