True Reliable Options
Reaching is the issue not the thing reached for. Not everything one thinks is a reliable option truly is. It will take a very settled mind to see if what you’re reaching for is truly a reliable option…
Do what you think is a reliable option for your well being, but it needs to be investigated to see if what you’re doing is truly reliable and not just a story of what you think. Many people play the lottery to become rich so to become rich becomes a so called reliable option. Sex is often used as being a so called reliable option as is the spiritual path. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, and also their counter parts (their programs) are used as a reliable option, but as the results of these options may be different, the prison they keep you in is the same. Working out and healthy eating habits are reliable options, but many attach a story to them and negate their reliability. I know many people are vegans and I have no opinion either way, but no where have I ever read that Jesus or the Buddha used this as a reliable part of their practice. All I’m saying is what I’ve found to be truly reliable needs no story or attachment for certain results.
I can only share my experience and I’ve found reaching for anything in whatever form it takes on is not truly reliable. The reaching is the issue, not the thing being reached for. To me in the space of just being with what arises in the present moment is truly reliable. Not everything you think is reliable truly benefits your life. It will take a very settled mind to see the subtleness of the attachment to things that are deemed reliable. I say if you’re reaching for something regardless of what it is, it’s not a reliable option for your well being. This is because the reaching itself is the issue as it keeps you in a mental prison…
A Selfish View
There’s not much life in a selfish view. What happens with a selfish view is the free flowing energy of truth is cut off. A selfish view always causes suffering, truth alleviates it…
A selfish view is what causes one to get locked into only seeing things from the side of suffering. It matters little what that selfish view is, as it’s the rigidness of being in a selfish mode that doesn’t allow free flowing energy. The is what happens when a story is created and it becomes a selfish view of what life is about in any particular moment. The selfishness become deeply ingrained as one becomes emotionally tied into whatever the selfish view is focused on. It’s very difficult to not attach to things that makes up a story that is held onto, but you can have compassion, passion, and genuine love for something without attaching to it and being controlled by a selfish mind.
To me, the selfish view is the normal view of many people and it’s why many suffer unnecessarily. I’ve noticed this occurring in so many lives and I can see the suffering it’s causing. Unfortunately those in the midst of this selfish view cannot see it. Nor can one pull themselves out of it until the selfish view is seen as the cause of suffering. The selfish mind doesn’t allow the openness needed to be free from attachment, and since attachment is the root of suffering, suffering is inevitable. The tighter the grip of something the more one is trapped in a selfish view and the less free flowing energy there is in one’s life. There’s not much life in a selfish view because what happens is the free flowing energy of truth is cut off, The selfish view always causes suffering, truth alleviates suffering…
Conflicted Status
There’s no harmony when selfish energy is running the show. Simply put without harmony we have everyone going in different directions trying to attain a certain selfish status…
Nothing really means all that much in the grand scheme of life when it comes to achieving a certain status in our society. Not that there’s anything wrong with this, but it doesn’t equate to anything except to selfish energy. This energy is what actually makes selfishness what it is; it creates conflict. When selfish energy is embraced, it creates an I am special aura or a look at me persona, but the truth of the matter is, when it’s time to leave this world nothing is taken with you. I’ve learned one very important lesson in my life and that is my life has nothing to do with me. I say this in the sense of what any life is about. Life itself doesn’t really care what occurs, it’s selfish energy that makes it important by the story it creates of “I”. It attaches to “I” and adds all kinds of things that creates a look at me persona. A celebrity status goes to most people’s head, but it doesn’t really mean anything. Just loving and keeping things in their proper perspective is what gets it done for me, with the “it” being a level of quietness that doesn’t need a selfish story to be.
Anything added to life doesn’t really enhance it in any way. Being with life as it is and not needing it to be of a certain status is so much more beneficial as an energy than putting out selfish energy. So much of selfish energy is reinforced by ”I” and it’s why the world is the way it is. Selfishness can’t exist without a certain energy that feeds it. Without awareness of this, just by the design of idolizing, selfish energy is constantly reinforced. I’m right and you are wrong energy is also the kind of energy that’s in place and it makes for many selfish charged situations. There’s no harmony when selfish energy is running the show. Simply put, without harmony we have a conflicted world trying to attain a certain selfish status…
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