Sometimes we may ask ourselves: Why do I need consciousness? Could I just believe in things I hear? Consciousness is what makes us capable of reasoning, observing the environment we are inserted into, analysing the variables within, and understanding their relation to the observed outcome. Consciousness makes us aware of the conditioning involved, the attempt to drive the unconscious mind to do things we get no awareness about, in the moment of their occurrence. Consciousness is what makes us understand we have to observe the environment, to know the conditioning imposed requires adaptation. If we are not capable of adapting ourselves, we have no other option than improving our mind training and moving on. Darkness enforces its way, and we respond with light, kindness, compassion, love. The moment darkness attempts to control us, it is the moment we have to be conscious and not afraid to face it, to move on when we want to, instead of embracing suffering at the imposed scale.

How long could you stay in an unpleasant environment, full of obnoxious people? Have you thought about that matter? At work, at home, at the supermarket, any place we experience something making us uncomfortable we may feel we are in an unpleasant situation. However, as disseminated in the Buddhist philosophy and reinforced by many such as his holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, to be in such kind of environment is a wonderful opportunity to practise patience, enhancing our inner peace, conditioning our kind and compassionate nature to flourish as vivid as the sunlight.

It is with consciousness we are able to recognise the nuances of a good heart, the genuine intention of a beautiful smile, the true nature of a person, the difference between natural and fabricated. It is with consciousness we adapt to the playlist at the present moment. Sometimes we let our body go with the flow of the music, the movements imposed by the current rithm, to see where it ends. We need such knowledge, the knowledge of suffering, the movements of a conditioned mind, the knowledge of what is the next step of the applied protocol without having access to any classified material about it.

Buddha had no access to books, documentations, tutorials, any material saying how suffering is configured, what to expect from the mind in a state of suffering, what is the action we have to do according to the reaction we observe in the environment. Buddha has understood suffering by his own experiences, reading the environment, his mind, the combination of the formers, in order to know how the experienced suffering could come to an end.

How could I understand the environment I am inserted into, and the relation of it to my own mind, and the suffering I am experiencing? One may ask. Well, getting conscious is the first step from many we have to perform on our own.

Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓


Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).

 

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