The senses are directly linked to the prison of self. If you really want to understand your life from the spiritual side, you’ll have to get very quiet and become aware of how subtle the prison of self is…
Through the senses life is labeled, and those labels are constantly applied. Everything is judged, even labeling a paper clip on the desk is a judgment. Not a harmful one, but a judgment just the same. When you learn not to label you can become aware of the distractions that keep you from going beyond the prison of self. With this new awareness your mind finally settles enough to notice the deeper view. This is the initial awareness, but it will require much more practice to go deeper yet. The deeper you go, the more you will have to let go of that which is sensory. The more the sensory world is let go of, the more you will understand the deeper view and the freer you will be.
The only reason life is viewed from self by so many people is because there isn’t awareness of the quietness that’s necessary to view it differently. This isn’t something that is right or wrong, but it is limiting. Without the discipline to understand the difference between the prison of self and the deeper view, there will be no difference and the prison of self will be the only view that you will have. Not right or wrong, but limiting, and what is limited is your view…
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