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With no self

Posted on by philipdodson

With no self, there is nothing to fear, there is no calamity, no worry, no pain.

Self is a creation of the mind and is not from our soul. It is a collection of mental forms, labels, memories wrapped in fragile tissue paper in our mind, it’s what we falsely identify as ourselves.

It is a delicate thing easily injured or hurt and if we identify with our self, then we suffer the hurt and injury both mentally and physically.

It is self that causes suffering within and without. The collective suffering is the collective self.

The state of pure conscious being is free from self. Our essence is not driven by a story of ‘me’.

Our soul is hidden from us by identifying with self.

With no self comes liberation, freedom, life, joy, love and the power of creation and the universe.

Small steps now

Posted on by philipdodson

The struggles on the surface of our unconscious mind-controlled life of past and future are not real. Most humans for most of their existence spend their time trapped within a mind-made self, a story, created by thought. None of this thought is our actual real life that is this conscious moment, the moment that is forever now.

Yet, through our conditioning, we believe this unconscious state is real and normal.

It is in fact, insanity.

When we are fully conscious and awake, aware fully of our surroundings, our inner energy, our own breathing, our own connectedness with all that is, then the mind state dissolves, thought leaves. In this state, we do not allow our emotions and reactions to control us, we do not allow our thoughts to be energised and to be taken seriously.

We are then not likely to have hate, anger, jealousy, judgement, addictions, highs and lows, and we are likely to be still, silent and at peace.

Once we start on this path towards inner peace, then it is the beginning of the end of suffering and pain that is the mind-state. However, like all things, we have to be prepared to sacrifice, to commit to a spiritual practice, to unlearn our conditioning and to accept what is.

Small steps taken now is the path to inner peace.