How one should See

and... the day gets worse.

But is worse really anything more then perception?

I was listening to Ananda Radio online streaming and they had an audio reading from The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita.  I didn't catch the chapter this is from, and this is all paraphrased from what I heard:

As the swan's wings are unaffected by the water - so should the man of wisdom be unaffected by the world.

This doesn't mean he's indifferent - he doesn't desire anything for himself. 

The cause of perception for everything and everyone is from himself.

Rejoices in their good and grieves in their evil and what it will do to them.

His only desire is to help others to know God.

As I sat thinking about this - I can hear Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith (in my mind), in a old memory of him saying:

I See... I see with NEW eyes....

This is the new eyes.  New perspective.  Not being caught in the emotion and the wave of like and dislike... But in bliss

Essential Bhagavad Gita 3:34 (Swami Kriyananda)

Quoting from Chapter 15 of this text by Swami Kriyananda, there's a lot of good wisdom here - where he gives commentary on verse 3:34 -

(3:34) Attraction and repulsion (regarding) sense objects belong to the natural ebb and flow of duality. Beware equally of them both, for they are man's greatest enemies!

Attraction and repulsion are extreme forms of likes and dislikes. To like anything excessively is as great an error, virtually by definition, as to dislike its opposite. The realization of God depends on neutralizing all one's reactions, leveling out their peaks and their valleys, and seeing the one, changeless Spirit at the heart of everything.

The secret is not to cease from enjoying anything -- a "solution" which leads only to apathy, and consequently, to a deadened awareness. The secret, rather, is to center every enjoyment in the heart: to feel that its cause lies there, in your reactions; and then to draw that energy consciously upward in the spine, from the heart to the brain.

Ordinary likes and dislikes are not man's enemies, as such. Rather, they are like troublesome neighbors. Extreme forms of these emotions, however -- any strong attraction or violent repulsion -- can plunge one into violent storms of emotion that toss him helplessly about on great waves of delusion. Never let yourself become infatuated (infatuation is extreme attraction) with anything or anyone. Never let yourself hate anything or anyone. Develop an attitude, rather, of accepting the cosmic dream as it is, even when it becomes a nightmare! Your only hope is to escape to a higher level of consciousness.

Some people do have ugly traits. Don't waste energy in reacting to them, neither by dislike nor by abhorrence. Don't welcome them into your "galaxy" of interests. Move through life, rather, like a swan off whose back the rain flows lightly, never touching its body.

Protect your heart's feelings from the excitement of all extreme reactions. Surround those feelings with emanations of peace and good will. Relax in the heart. Relax also outward from the heart, to the shoulders. Then direct the heart's energy upward through the spine to the brain. When there are people around you, for instance, shouting angrily -- and especially when they shout at you personally -- relax inwardly; be centered in the Self; smile in your heart, and remind yourself, "I love God alone!"

Excerpt from "The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita"

Page 163, "To drive a dark mood out of the mind, for example, try this simple method: Focus your energy and attention strongly at the point between the eyebrows. The magnetism you generate there will life you out of the fogs of gloom to a higher, more spiritual atmosphere where peace, joy and complete acceptance reign.
Again, if sex temptation assails you, bring the energy up from the lower chakras (especially from the swadisthana, or sacral) to the heart by breathing deeply a few times. Then sit still, as has been suggested above, and focus deeply on the Kutastha between the eyebrows."