Changing theory into practice. It seems to be, mildly speaking, difficult to attain. Everything is wrong within oneself. One imagines one must be all wrong inside. But it is rather a sign that ideas that one gets to know are relatively new. Something one could not come upon aided by one's own power. Then the moment comes (mind that, it does come), when changing theory into practice is not at all difficult. This feeling may withdraw in a second and in the beginning it really does vanish quickly. Then again there is so much theory, so many books yet to read, so many programs for one's life conflicting with each other, and the body is tired, and the head is drained, and No. 1. enemy rears its ugly head and hisses "I'll never do it, sigh", and various everyday regular&irregular obligation presses and lurks and is ready to drive one dead, sick or mad. And what is in fact the aim is not yet clear.
This blog is no Bridge Over Troubled Water (just as that previous brainstorming is no serious study of octaves) and it is no teaching either, one must go drink at other sources for good strong building material (no links: you know best where to seek and it is a law that you will find). What is it then? It is rather heretical conviction that there must be some who have gone before: they must know very well what one cannot yet verify: that one is perfectly able to work it out, no matter what one thinks about it. We must somehow gain that standpoint while not yet standing there. After all, we are not doing it ourselves.
That means, inner stop to fuss&fretting. That means, remember that one cannot lose anything, because one has never got anything of value. One can only lose anger and sadness and depression and feeling of meaninglessness and anxious hurry and wrong valuation. One can only gain ability to discern without long and complicated considerations and to see the value of things for oneself - and that must be real valuation, not like in outer circle where everybody values something else than another.
What does it mean "not to identify with one's own efforts"? Has one ever thought about that? Can one make a big effort and not identify with it? All that POMPE says about it is that effort to self-remember must not be based on expectation of results. Why would one make effort if not for result, whatever the result would be? Something is 'wrong' here.
Well, POMPE says further that effort must be based on insight that one can do it if one tries and if one endeavors sufficiently strongly. Will one try to do it when one sees that that one can do it? That enemy No. 1 for some reason is absent? Of course.
But still, what about result? We introduce another heresy here. It is about that widely spread fable of graduating, or - holy horror of Work student - never graduating. In ordinary school it's no problem to graduate if you know what you got to know, if you have practiced what you had to practice. Graduation is guaranteed. That means, Arjuna, take care of raising state of being and don't mind graduating too much, says Krishna. Why? Because that's the way to not identify with your efforts.
Those who have gone before - do not know about these things? We even know and they don't? Of course they do. If they are clever - and there's no reason to hint their main feature is low IQ, they arrange exams and graduations in such a way that one will not even know about them. I'd personally say "hey, this is an exam" only if I wanted that a person mobilizes all extra effort (including that questionable fret&fuss motor power) they possibly can.
Love your enemy? Not this one. No-one there. It's just a shadow, caused by a wrong standpoint.