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  When we start analysing anything in life from our own perspective and relativity, seeking the understanding of a given environment, scenario, or situation before us, one astonishing and well-known strategy that can be used as an asset at hand is breaking that bigger and intractable view into small pieces, which we can start reassembling to understand properly what we’ve experienced and what we may still experiencing in the present moment. Such a strategy of reasoning and thinking—which is widely used for solving problems—is dubbed divide-to-conquer. It reminds us of the image of a puzzle yet a dynamic one. Instead of having a hard-wired, single way of assembling, each one of us may find a truthful and meaningful way of doing that; a way that is better aligned with our own path, which may reveal secrets no one else was able to realise or understand properly before. Buddha, the enlightened one, was able to attain his own understanding of suffering after realising and understanding ...
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  Recognising the presence in the surroundings of what we would like to end the most is the certainty of why it’s essential to attain higher levels of peace of mind in order to understand the learning curse of how to wait patiently for an opportunity that the universe whether may offer or not to close a chapter that should never get written. We need consciousness at hand to understand our own suffering, letting it not cloud our judgement. We need clarity of mind to acquire as much knowledge as we can to be sure of what we observe and experience in the present moment. And we need to perform our body and mind training to be prepared to make tough decisions, fearing nothing or no one. That’s part of the path we need to thrive towards our personal evolution, enhancing the self and surpassing our own limits no matter the circumstances. The predator mindset of survivability. When we start observing nature, we observe that every predator develops an extremely precise line of action, which...

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“Knowing what to do is the first step to knowing what to expect when expecting nothing is the baseline.” — Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp). Available also in a signed pdf version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kID4v4dAjH948hNmHV9Hsyb5m2zyo14-/view?usp=sharing
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  We’ve different ways to step into higher stages of our personal evolution, and it’s our personal duty to find the best and more suitable way of doing that, regarding the resources we’ve at hand and the environment we’re inserted into. Having a clear understanding of the aforementioned environment is a fundamental step to keep consciousness at hand, no matter the types of illusions we’ve contact with, and for how long we’re both dealing with and facing them. It’s by establishing a strong stance that we can get prepared to step into higher stages of our personal evolution, which implies acquiring higher levels of peace of mind, mainly in the face of challenges, difficulties, as well as obnoxious scenarios we may think it’s impossible either to face or deal with. If we hear there’s only one way to enhance, it’s wrong. It’s just conditioning, and therefore, it promotes no conscious understanding of what happens in the present moment. Although we follow a common and fundamental base, ...
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  As the last Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, the enlightened one, has taught us through his teachings concerning how we deal with suffering and the negative consequences of it, which is related to how we perceive the environment we’re inserted into and everything in our surroundings, we need to keep ourselves in the present moment, being conscious of what happens both within and before us. Such a fundamental conscious posture implies becoming the king or queen of our personal reign we call mind, ruling it through a knowledge- and evidence-based regime instead of a belief- and slavery-based one. There’s no acceptance without understanding, and it cannot ever be, as understanding of what we do and experience is an essential pillar of our own existence that is carved on stone. Becoming king or queen of our own mind has a “price” to pay, and that “price” is always related to the environment we’re inserted into, and the people in our surroundings. The more dishonour, dishonesty, and decepti...

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“Knowledge acquisition is what we need to sharpen our sword that cuts through ignorance when it’s required to.” —- Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp). Available also in a signed pdf version:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m-JxRRxgkQG96T6fD24KQT-MlPEGxqi7/view?usp=drivesdk
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  There’s nothing special about being certain of the path we would like to pursue during our life journey. It’s a choice we need to make, and it’s related with the values we would like to keep deep within, even if the environment we’re inserted into promotes the opposite. The Buddha’s journey towards enlightenment teaches us a lot about renunciation, acceptance, observation, understanding, and confidence of knowing what we need to do about our own destiny. Let’s imagine if the last Buddha, Siddartha Gautama, accepted with no doubts and no questions asked the teachings of many doctrines he had experienced before deciding to walk his own middle path. We would never be able to know the true outcome if he had enrolled into a different path but we may imagine that Buddhism and his wonderful teachings could never be formulated by the time it had been formulated and emerged. Personally, one of the most iconic teachings for me is accepting nothing with no understanding, which implies that ...