While following our own path of life, we have to realise how to deal with suffering, which starts by getting our head up, and tapping into our consciousness to see the situation as it is, through our third eye. Drowning into negativity, embracing difficulties, waiting for external help, or even stop performing our mind and body training are what a period of suffering is characterised by the most. The moment we stop observing, analysing, and understanding what happens within the self, losing the correlation with the environment we are inserted into, it is the moment we differentiate reality from illusions no more.


We have to take time to enrol in the personal duty of observing, analysing, and understanding what happens within the self in the present moment. We can start by a simple exercise of recognising the type of emotion that is generated when we experience a given situation, performing the correlation with what happens in the surroundings at the moment. It is by this simple but wonderful exercise we could start to draw our own hypotheses concerning how we can deal with our own suffering, in a similar way Buddha, the enlightened one, has done in the past. It does not mean we go back to the past, to a place and time we have no evidence of the clear state configuring the Buddha's mind. It means we start, step by step, drawing a clear cause-and-effect line of events we are experiencing, which uses a non-judgemental attitude to prevent jumping into clouded conclusions. The less clouded our own perspective and relativity is, the more precise it is our understanding about what we are experiencing in the present moment.


Let me give you a clear example. Imagine we are in the privacy of our home, and our left hand starts shaking a bit with no apparent reason. Performing no observation, analysis, and understanding about what is happening, we could jump into wrong conclusions that may imply going to visit a doctor. However, if we let our conscious mind get on the driver's seat to be aware about what is happening, we could be able to observe that a friend sitting close to us was using a device to trigger the stimuli causing the shaking behaviour, laughing every single time we start shaking. To deal with such a situation, we have two options: (1) trying to force our friend to stop his/her awful behaviour; or (2) dealing with the issue ourselves, implying either getting away from the person, or getting strong enough to prevent the negative effects of the aforementioned stimuli, which could be a long-term strategy to be applied. All starts with a positive attitude, a good heart, a trustworthy mind, and a care about life.


The moment we realise we are the rulers of our own mind, it is the moment we understand no one is able to achieve peace of mind on our behalf.


Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓



Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


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