If you want to benefit yourself, benefit others by giving all the love and compassion you have. It does not mean you should act like a fool and sacrifice your entire life. It means you have to care about others to stand up and continue to benefit them. The moment you sacrifice your life is the moment you are able to benefit no one anymore. Thus, the only way to use higher intelligence to benefit life is by performing our mind and body training, in order to be ready to face challenges at any circumstances, which to a naked eye can be considered a sacrifice the moment we get no material advantage from it.


Buddha, the enlightened one, disseminated through his teachings that we could not liberate another from his/her own suffering, meaning that we are powerless to control something we have no control of. In that way, sacrifice is an act derived from a period of suffering, which we have no idea if it would have any positive result as an outcome. It is always the unconscious mind getting on the driver's seat, which at the end gives one certain thing: suffering, at least, to the self.


It is time to realise sacrifice is an external and distorted view of a difficult situation where the only way is to make a tough decision. However, what has been conditioned within our society is that sacrifice means giving up our life in an act of benefiting others. That conditioning is an illusion of the mind, and it is nothing more than suffering kicking in by the front door. Caring about one life does not require giving up another. On the contrary, caring about life means standing up, being brave, and facing any challenge with a posture that keeps our head up, no matter the source, no matter the time, and no matter the circumstances. That is the way to care about another life, which sometimes may require lifting and carrying a heavy weight under our shoulders.


Mind and body training prepare the self to get ready to support any negative energy coming into our direction, enabling the self to control, diminish, and channel negativity that may be generated inside for self-enhancement. The more we step into a peaceful state of mind, no matter what we are experiencing in the present moment, the more we are able to see, generate, maximise, and share the light of life, the one that is imprinted into our love nature, being manifested from the inside out.


Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓



Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


Available also in a signed pdf version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cEqpgp6ef2itmqQlGhdF6WGah-kOA6a8/view?usp=sharing

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