Happy new year to everyone. It is indeed 2021 in every part of the globe, according to the Gregorian calendar. From the extreme south to the extreme north we are experiencing the same year. Together with the entrance of a new year, an opportunity to either start or continue our personal practise, performing our mind training to achieve the balance of the self, the inner peace required to become conscious about everything dictated by the impermanence of the universe around us.
We are creatures of love, born to live a peaceful and meaningful life. We have the intrinsic capability of cultivating kindness, compassion, love, empathy towards others. We are not born to hate but we have been conditioned to do so, experiencing tragedy as something acceptable, war as something inevitable, manipulation, dominance, and control as something suitable, and consciousness as something dispensable. Suffering gets very comfortable on top of such conditioning.
In order to understand suffering and its consequences, we all need to experience it at some extension. We all have to get conscious about the conditioning of darkness. We experience hate and the negative emotions derived from the rise of anger, being capable of getting conscious to understand how such awful feelings affect our body and mind. We experience sadness and the moment we get conscious we understand what is its true source. The theory and practise combined at their best, the acquisition of ancient knowledge left by past generations, and the application of such knowledge at our own perspective and relativity. We use the hypothesis test at our own perspective and relativity as a tool to either accept or reject such a knowledge, as well as understanding why we are the only ones capable of exploring our own mind at full scale.
The moment we realise what is the real treasure we have the opportunity to acquire, it is the moment we observe, analyse, and understand knowledge as something precious.
Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).
Available also in a signed pdf version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PqnacTc3wR5NsOmY3Jr0LctvPVxM9myz/view?usp=sharing
