Tag: ego

How to build success

Posted on by philipdodson

Yep…there’s a few things written about that.

However, what is mostly missing from those books, podcasts and blogs is one thing.

Success is not a generic thing that is measured by societal status and wealth.

If that’s the measure of success then we are all going to be disappointed in our lack of success, as there will always be someone with greater wealth and status.

It’s a bit like perfection, totally unreachable which leads to suffering.

Success comes from the inside instead of the normal ego-driven exterior measurement.

Success is uniquely personal to us and it is achieved by reaching a state of acceptance of what is and peace with it. It is the state of just being. That brings deep rooted inner joy, not the fleeting emotion of happiness that comes with external success of status.

Status is, like all things in the exterior world of form, a temporary state. One that like our own ego is very fragile, easily broken and a source of drama and suffering.

True inner peace, the state of being conscious and present in this now moment and in a state of acceptance is true success.

Our primary purpose is to be. Just be and to be the consciousness of the universe.

It’s not easy to just be as we are consumed by our conditioning to constantly be striving for status success in the exterior unconscious mind-obsessed state that we see as ‘normal’ life.

Inner peace is success.

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.