We get to choose what we do and how we choose to see life.
When we fail to take responsibility and expect others people or other things to make us happy, then we will always be disappointed.
Of course, we can not always be happy, however, we can always choose to be at peace within to whatever. When we accept everything as it already is then inner peace comes.
When we accept our responsibility for our own happiness, strangely, we become happier.
It’s our film, we need to be the star and not sit back as an extra or simply a viewer of our life. We are not the passenger on our bus, we are the driver.
It’s a simple choice, being right or being free and at peace. You can’t be both.
When we are wrapped up with being right then others are wrong. We are winners and they are losers. There is the feeling of injustice when we enter the realm of right or wrong.
Our egoic mind state causes us to defend our views no matted what, we have to be right.
When we let go of the need to be right, we free ourselves from the battle, the negative energy and we remove the suffering we inflict on ourselves and others.
There is no right or wrong, just a view, a temporary mental construct. Views created by the unconscious mind, where our world view is tainted by the filters that our judgemental biased mind puts on everything.
When we choose to step away from that and become conscious and accepting of everything and everyone as they are now, then we can let go of the pressure to be right.
We can still have a view but we are no longer attached to it and therefore there is no more suffering.
Inner peace is a conscious state of unattachment where we realise that being right doesn’t matter.
When we stop the need to always be right then we free ourselves from the endless debilitating suffering that a sense of injustice causes. Injustice keeps us stuck in a maze of misery. Always wanting this reparations from another for being wrong and us being right.
If we stop the need to be right and others to be wrong, we can leave the maze and move forward with our lives.
All my life I wanted to be right and I finally seeing it simply doesn’t matter.
Philip Dodson 