"I am never upset for the reason I think." (ACIM, Workbook, Lesson 5).
This lesson leads on from the previous lessons in coming to the realisation that we don't actually understand anything, and know anything - in the sense of actually experiencing the reality of what we perceive vs perceiving through our conditioned responses.
Today's idea branches out into the emotional/feeling area, and follows the same lines, in that we seem to be upset (or experiencing negative, painful emotions) with some object/person/situation. There is intimated here, in the text, that there is a reason for this.. and the reason or cause that we ascribe to the situation isn't correct or the true reason for why we are upset.
The benefits in this approach, like in Lesson 3 (I do not understand anything I see in this place etc.) become apparent if we are able to relax and let go of the egoic tendency to think we are right, correct, knowledgable, and can grasp our experience within the realms of intellect and intellectual understanding-- all of which are false.
If we can let go of a situation and the need to grasp it, because we realise and see that we don't actually understand or properly know anything, then we become open to things just as they are.. a sort of space of not-knowing or "peace that passeth all understanding" (Phil 4:7, and ACIM Text Ch.13)
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