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Do you want to be right or free and at peace?

Posted on by philipdodson

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.

I am increasingly becoming less knowledgeable

Posted on by philipdodson

I know nothing.

I have for most of my life thought it was important to know everything and even if you didn’t really have the first fucking clue about something, pretend that you knew and have an opinion, based usually on our own prejudices or what others say, who also had no fucking clue either.

Groups of people have great debates on subjects whereby none of them has a fucking clue and they make what they think are the right decisions based on that.

The only thing we know is ourselves and the things that we actually experience and even then, when we are in our unconscious mind-obsessed state, we only see what our mind wants us to see. In this moment now is the only thing we really know, when we are awake and conscious, seeing the world without any evaluation.

We do not have to have an opinion, we do not have to know and it is better to listen than to know.

The more we listen, the more we understand.

Inner peace, joy and a conscious existence, just being our authentic soulful true essence, comes from the freedom of knowing nothing, not evaluating everything. Knowledge is a burden because what we think is knowledge is most often thought and opinion within our own heads or from the collective mind.

Knowledge creates this false righteousness, as we believe our knowledge to be the absolute truth that our egos will force us to defend at all costs.

The opposite where listening, understanding and not knowing everything creates connection, respect, freedom and the liberation from the pressure of having to know and having to defend that knowledge.

I am increasingly becoming less knowledgeable.