Other people are not what our mind wants us to believe.
When we see others through the filters and judgements of our mind, then we do not see them at all, we see only what’s in our mind.
Then we act or form further beliefs and judgments based on the story playing in our own head.
If we choose not to be absorbed by our thoughts and we choose to be present, then we see others as they truly are and act from our true essence and not from biases.
Equally, we become our true self too, no longer dominated by our thoughts.
We are not our mind and others aren’t either. Stop the mind and start seeing.
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 