How lucky is a zebra to get alone in the wild without being hunted by a lion, or another wild cat animal? A lot. However, it could not be luck but a strategy of being a fast jumper in the forest, and for that reason we have a lot to learn from an animal, which is, most of the time, hunted by others. When we have less resources at hand, implying we have less capability to perform anything we would like to, we need consciousness more than ever to know exactly what we are doing, instead of running unconsciously just to escape something we are facing in the present moment. The more we start to use our consciousness in the task of walking our own path, the more we understand that living in society is being in a forest with a lot of hunters in suffering: we just need to practise our mind and body training to walk our own path, hoping we have no need to face such hunters, even if we get prepared to do so.


The importance of keeping the practise of our body and mind training is clear as crystal when we, from time to time, need to face "the hunters" of our society, which are creatures in suffering we need to deal with. If we get not prepared to do so, there is a higher probability we would engage in an unconscious course of action, which could be dictated by a negative conditioning imposed by the counterpart we are facing. It means we are doomed, eventually.


If we fall into a trap, and we get into a condition where we have already followed the negative conditioning imposed, ending up into a difficult situation to deal with, it is our personal duty to identify the trap, and use our consciousness to realise and understand what to do from the present moment.


We may think a lot about the Buddha's teachings related to silence, and we may fall into the illusion that silence means not speaking at all, hiding or avoiding situations we have no interest in facing. If we get quiet, while practising silence, we may not be noticed for a while, and sometimes it represents the right thing to do. However, being quiet does not represent not being hunted, implying also the existence of no trace of such a hunt party, or our own existence.


It is easy to think about Buddha's teachings, and history events we are used to hearing some description about. If there was no registry about either Buddha's existence or a specific piece of history, from the perspective of a person who is living nowadays, in 2022, neither could be considered existent, or a fact on their time. In addition, there is also another important piece of the puzzle related to who performs such a registry.


There is always more than one perspective for observing and registering the same scene we are experiencing. Some of the events cannot be properly understood, or even observed, from all of those perspectives. A hunter would register his abilities of hunting, sometimes diminishing the capability of another creature, if such a hunter gets to catch such a creature. However, it would be difficult to understand how such a creature gets to be hunted without an impartial contextualisation of the facts. Therefore, we have to get lucky to have contact with such impartial registration.


In the context of Buddha's teachings, being a hunter is always a position we may assume during the experience of a period of suffering. There is no interest in hunting if we are not experiencing suffering, as our business is self-enhancement rather than going after another. In the task of walking our own path towards a meaningful life, being a hunter is not an option, it is letting our unconscious mind under control. If we use our conscious mind to not enrol into the path of a hunter, it does not mean we can skip body and mind training, implying we have to get prepared to face one if required to.


The tough questions related to such a subject is: What are we in the present moment? Are we a hunter? Or are we trying to live our own life, the best as we can, within our own perspective and relativity? If we identify ourselves as hunters, we are, for sure, experiencing suffering. Otherwise, if we are trying to live our life, as best as we can, we may also be experiencing suffering. 


What is the difference then? That is a simple question to answer. A hunter is always guided by the impulse of destruction, the chaotic dark side that seeks pleasure on anything aside from creation.


Walking towards the path of a meaningful life is hard work, and because such a characteristic of being hard that we need to get prepared for anything, even facing hunters in the wild of our own society.


Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓



Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


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