Helping others become even better versions of themselves
The irony of a coffee table called ‘lack’.
Lack within us is the cause of our addictions as we believe that they will soothe our lack within.
Strangely these addictive behaviours actually cause more discontent and lack.
Joy doesn’t come after buying a new coffee table. Joy is a our true soul and is always there. It gets numbed and hidden by our mind-created lack.
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.
Philip Dodson 