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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 ...
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  It’s time to renew that old feeling of hope, implying that something good will happen in the middle of all the negativity we need to face and deal with in the present moment. Hope is always there, and we need to not let that flame vanish from who we really are. Buddha, the enlightened one, taught us about getting detached from our ego, which may imply removing the idea of the self from the equation of life, getting totally integrated into the universe itself, a bigger and wider view of promoting and caring about life that we can use to extend the perspective of looking into a given moment or situation we’re experiencing. However, I personally find more tractable and sound to see and interpret the need to remove the idea of the self as taking into consideration what happens in the universe and in the surroundings to characterise and understand the position and the contributions of the current self to the whole instead of establishing a rigid priority order where the whole always c...
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  The war between light and darkness is over when we understand the magnitude of the power we’ve at hand while establishing a strong, resilient yet peaceful posture to apply defensive-only manoeuvres to prevent hatred culture to dominate the scene and the environment we’re inserted into, if and only if, either ignoring or walking away aren’t options we’ve available at hand. In order to put such a strategy into practice we need to be aware and awaken of the need to perform our body and mind training, keeping consciousness at hand to deal with anything aside from our love nature that life presents to us. The more clarity of mind we develop, the better we understand what has to be done in the present moment. There’s nothing to fear when we’re conscious enough and totally aware of what happens in the present moment. The word of choice is defence, and when we’re focused on living our own life, there’s only the need to be aware of harmful behaviours and actions towards us, which attainin...

Quote of the Week

“The more we understand what we do, the easier it’s to keep it simple, efficient yet trustworthy.” — Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp). Available also in a signed pdf version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PH6kSJ56kzpO8XFwka83zGv6btVa-rwp/view?usp=sharing