Even when we are not like the majority of the flowers in the garden, we still have our beauty to be cultivated, and our uniqueness to be maintained. Actually, even looking similar to one another, each flower is unique, being part of an ecosystem that is meant to flourish life all around. Competition has two sides of the same coin. At one side, fair competition is the ground of testing our own limits against another honoured party doing the same thing, meaning a type of collaboration at the end of the process. Otherwise, it represents a state of suffering kicking in, as fairness is not on the table, and the focus becomes the division of all parties involved into two distinguished groups: winners and losers. Collaboration instead of Competition is the way of caring about life, and walking towards the path of a meaningful life.


We may be deeply inserted into a culture where the dark side of competition is always in evidence, pointing out "winners" and "losers" as part of the promoted selfishness disseminated through such a negative conditioning. It is by realising and understanding the illusion such a dark side brings to the atmosphere that we can liberate ourselves from following, and embracing that side.


Each one of us is unique, beautiful, and with potential to access the wonderful power we have inside, through the use of our own consciousness. By using our own consciousness we understand there is no advantage of dividing ourselves into winners and losers, as it brings more tension to the table, and may trigger negative emotions that are part of a state of suffering to see either side perishing, no matter being considered a "winner" or a "loser". It is much more aligned with our love nature to recognise that someone is in a highlighted position at the moment, and it can be a motivation to enhance the self instead of diminish someone else. Focusing the efforts into positive things makes all the difference in the task of observing, analysing, and understanding our own suffering like Buddha, the enlightened one, has done in his time.


Being part of a community is not accepting everything that is disseminated but understanding the consequences of anything aligned with, or aside from, our love nature, flourishing the alignment and diminishing the negativity that is part of the deal. No matter how competitive we may feel to be, keeping a collaborative way of thinking is much more beneficial to everyone else, with no exceptions imposed.


Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓



Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


Available also in a signed pdf version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nB6X5yqYdkzcC8aAuRvOXVezsZ_ZudQw/view?usp=sharing

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