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A thought

Posted on by philipdodson

Perhaps we could choose just to pause in advance of tomorrow, where those who are privileged enough, will all sit down to open presents, eat large feast like dinners, enjoy time with friends and family, perhaps we could all spare a thought for what we are actually celebrating or doing this all for every year.

Perhaps, a thought for those less privileged and what we collectively could do to help those people not just once a year when we are conditioned to be kind to each other, but all throughout the year.

What really is it all about? What could we do differently if we were not conditioned to behave this way once a year? Is there really any meaning to Christmas anymore and what was the idea in the first place?

Or we could choose to not pause and carry on.

It’s insane

Posted on by philipdodson

We have huge potential to do amazing things and yet we waste that potential trapping ourselves in our mind, where we simply re-live the past or act out the future, mapped against a self-image that the mind has created and will protect at all costs from being ‘destroyed’.

If we stop an analyse what our mind is doing sub-consciously on a minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, in fact, a lifetime basis, we’d realise the insanity of it all.

We are all insane to inflict emotional pain, and the resulting physical pain, upon ourselves almost continuously throughout our lives. If we are conscious, no one would do it to themselves. Why would we inflict any pain emotional or physical on ourselves?

It’s madness.

What if we just did in the now, be in the now, and stopped the analysis? What if we just consciously lived our lives moment by moment?

What could we achieve? How much better would we feel? Could we live free, without problems that we continually imagine in our minds?

Imagine a world free from this insanity.