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Insane, eh?

Posted on by philipdodson

The narrative in our head and the collective narrative are not the real life and world that our mind and the collective mind tricks us to believe.

Real life and world are the present moment now, the conscious moment that is beyond all the stories and narratives made up by our and the collective thoughts of a single or many human minds.

We can only become aware of this be unplugging from the matrix that is the collective human story and if we disassociate from our own egocentric story.

We are the human soul, the essence that transcends the fleeting temporary mental constructs that our thoughts consists of. The mind is just a part of us, it is not us.

Once we go down the path of consciousness and freedom from the never ending torrent of mainly repetitive daily mind-streams, then we see that reality is the freedom from thought.

Yet we are conditioned from almost our first few moments of life to believe differently. It is a repeating cycle as unconscious humans perpetuate the narrative in new arrivals.

Awareness of the conscious dimension of the now moment breaks the cycle and gradually it builds so that we spend less and less of our lives in the fiction that is the human mind, the mind that is nearly always obsessed with the past, victimhood and regret, or the future, the fictitious fantasy that is filled with psychological fear.

We can experience real life in this very instant and for as long as we choose by simply becoming the observer of our thoughts and disassociating with them, instead of believing we are those thoughts and becoming them in a Walter Mitty dream state that is seen as ‘normal’ life.

Normal life as we are conditioned is an unconscious state of nearly constant thought whereby we are blissfully unaware of anything that is actually real.

Insane, eh?

The choice about being right

Posted on by philipdodson

Wanting to be right causes a great deal of suffering within and for the world in general.

‘I’m right’, of course, naturally, and so say 8 billion other human souls inside their minds. We can’t all be right all the time, it’s not possible.

What is ‘right’ anyway? A strange concept that our mind clings onto about us holding the truth over others.

The truth is always subjective and right or wrong do not matter, except to the ego and the collective ego. They are all just mythical mental concepts constructed by the ego to enable us to be superior to another.

The ego will protect itself and being right at all costs. Untold cost to itself and others is caused over being right or not. How many human lives have been lost and untold suffering to millions over someone not willing to be wrong.

Fearing of being wrong and the humiliation of it is very powerful and admitting that their view may not be right is too painful for most to contemplate. Better to continue the suffering.

If however, we accept that nothing is in fact right or wrong, it is all subjective, if we accept that our views are just views, a temporary mental construct based on our mind’s filtering of the world, then we can break our egotistical attachment and end the suffering for ourselves and others. It is the negative impact of the resistance, the emotions that occur by reacting to a challenge to our views that bring about the pain for us and others.

The only true thing is this eternal unfolding present moment, now, where our actual real life occurs, here we can accept all, see that there is no view that matters right now and enjoy just being. We can let go of the ego, let go of our views and enjoy peace within.

It’s a choice, there is of course, no right or wrong.