Outyer View Limit
If you only see things from an outer view it limits your view of life because it doesn’t allow for any other results except those from that outer limit…
Having more than an outer view is what makes life different, but it doesn’t make what happens in life different, it only makes the view of what happens different. If you’re locked into an outer view, this only allows the outer limit of the way things are. To me, the more a view is based in thought, the harder it is for there to be a shift to see things beyond the outer view. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with the thought, it just doesn’t allow for much openness. When one sees things from the outer, it limits life to that one view. Most times this happens when the view isn’t even your own, it’s formed from someone else’s opinion, teaching, book, video, or discussion.
Being fixated on an outer view limits the results to that one view; think about how limiting this truly is; no possibility of another way. Always going down the same path, never allowing anything new. This is so limiting, if you only see things from the out there this will not be seen. Sitting and developing discipline so the grip of the mind lessens can assist in possibly altering an outer limited mind set, but there has to an inkling there’s another view beyond what’s out there. It’s not that the outer view is wrong, it’s just that seeing things this one way has limits which in the process doesn’t allow any other results except those from that outer view limit…
Addictive Reaching
Don’t let addictive reaching keep you in an unconscious state. All addictive reaching (attachment) has consequences regardless of what’s reached for…
If you’re always addictively reaching it’s because you don’t think what you have is enough. If you don’t think you have enough, there will always be something to addictively reach for. Reaching isn’t something that’s inherently a bad thing, why one reaches addictively is where issues arise; this is because one thinks something is missing. What is addictively reached for only matters to the degree in how the thing affects your life. The reaching to drink alcohol in access has consequences much different than the reaching to go to a program to stop using it. Make no mistake though, the reachings core is the same and that’s what needs to be examined. Don’t let the different consequences of addictive reaching lull you into unconsciousness because all reaching leads to bondage in one form or another; this includes all reaching.
You might say that’s not true, reaching to better yourself is a good thing, but that would mean you need things to be different to accept yourself. Accepting life exactly in the present is the only place the peace of not needing to addictively reach to have things different is experienced. I’m not saying don’t better yourself, but if it’s at the expense of your peace of mind, where’s the benefit. I say go for the gold, just understand even if it’s attained you’ll find it’s not providing the benefits you thought it would; shortly afterwards more gold will be addictively reached for. Investigate this and see how addictively reaching arises from desire, and desire causes bondage (attachment) which causes suffering. Break free from the addictive reaching of desiring things different and you will inevitably stop suffering…
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