Even when we get in a non-suitable environment, which prevents the development of our full capabilities, implying difficulties imposed by something external we have no control about, we should not blame the self for such a temporary issue, but start working to overcome it with the tools we have available at hand. In the majority of the time we would see the most trustworthy tool is our consciousness, and its uniqueness is what makes us observe, analyse, and understand what happens deep in the self and in the surroundings. The moment we realise we have to put the highest trust into our consciousness, it is the moment we understand why we can identify and face any source of negativity coming from the outside, while ruling and controlling the ones generated from the inside out.
If we think we are right, and we are capable of keeping the self in a peaceful state, while observing, analysing, and understanding what we are facing, we have done a wonderful step towards the path of acquiring knowledge to validate our thoughts, proving they are right or wrong. By reading such a description you may be inclined to think I am talking about scientific research, and the enrollment into scientific studies regarding a given subject. In some sense I am, but I am also not. If we are still letting the manifestation of negative emotions rise freely from the inside out, we need to enhance our mind training until we get to that level of peace of mind, preventing our emotions from clouding our judgement about the decision we make on the path we have enrolled.
Practising our mind training is nothing more than exercising something that is imprinted into our love nature: the acquisition of knowledge by any means, including personal observation and experimentation, which counts as a means for self-enhancement.
Anything we do in life requires enrollment, and some challenges we face may put the self into a long journey of knowledge acquisition, which may have the duration of decades, or even our entire lifetime. Buddha, the enlightened one, has enrolled in such a journey to understand suffering, and we can do a similar approach to understand anything present in the universe, including the conjecture we live in in the present moment.
Come with me and face suffering with your head up. Let us practise our mind training to prevent embracing suffering, and not getting afraid of life by accepting anything out of our own understanding. Come with me to start a fresh and common ground of understanding about the self, where we all could teach each other the wonderful knowledge we are able to acquire from our own perspective and relativity. Come with me wherever I go, consciously, and guided by your own observations and understandings about yourself. Come with me to resume something that has started ages ago: the enrollment into human evolution by tapping into our love nature, instead of grieving the difficulties we are facing in the present moment. Follow me and I guarantee you will be protected by the most powerful shield you have contact with: your own consciousness.
From the nature we come, and to the nature we go if required for our wonderful and personal evolution. If you share the same care about life with me, let us vibrate into a wonderful wave of love, starting the global community we would like to see: a community where care about life is the ultimate goal, and love is what bonds us all.
The moment we realise we are the only one capable of ruling our own mind, it is the moment we understand no matter where we go we are always under control.
Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓
Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).
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