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Suffering is a choice

Posted on by philipdodson

Whatever others choose to do it can only affect us if we choose it to.

Our mind and its stories about ‘little me’ and our ego are delicate fragile things that the mind will easily create a victim story from and then bring us pain and suffering. Once we energise it and give it attention, then the mind will drag us to the next thing.

If we choose to accept others and what is, then we will not become the victim. We can still verbalise outwardly our view, but without the pain and attachment to the victim story what we verbalise will be from a position of calm and peace.

Anger is driven from the sadness and pain that the ego creates. Once we become the story the mind will continue to bring more suffering. Often, it becomes so normal that we become the identity and the mind does everything then to keep that going as we feel it is who we are, we live the life of a victim.

Peace comes from acceptance and conscious awareness that what others do or say is not our business and we can only suffer if we allow ourselves to and identify with the stories in our mind.

RIP

Posted on by philipdodson

I read something today that said something along the lines of people say ‘rest in peace’ when someone dies, yet we never say to them, others or ourselves, when we are alive, ‘live in peace’.

We are constantly suffering from our minds and its ego and stories, we are too unconscious in our thoughts to be anything other than consumed by our mind and possessed by it. We inflict constant suffering inside upon ourselves and outwardly on others, and collectively upon the entire human race. If you’re in any doubt about that observe how you talk to yourself inside, look at Facebook, the news or see how others interact.

We aspire to wealth, possessions, achievements, and all other manners of temporary forms that give a moment of ‘happiness’ not lasting joy, then to be followed by more moments of dissatisfaction and desire for more, bigger, better, faster, better than others.

We are not encouraged to seek inner peace or instructed on how to achieve it, we are conditioned by the collective mind to seek ‘happiness’ in the temporary forms, the pleasures, the addictions, the instant but never lasting gratifications. We are conditioned for a life of unconsciousness, a torment of the mind.

Peace will certainly come when we die as our souls are freed from the physical carnation and the mind dies too. There suffering ends. However, we do not have to wait for death to experience inner peace in life. We can have it now and for the remainder of the existence of our physical carnation.

Live in peace and disassociate from the mind and its unreal world. End suffering within, without and collectively for the human race. The peace of the universe is within all our souls we just need to choose the light from our inner spirit instead of the darkness from the mind.