What matters is not an opinion from the outside but the feeling within, the consciousness about what happens in the present moment. The silence has expectations of agitation, derived from a given behaviour. If we know that, we know what to expect from every single situation. It is like fishing: we throw the line waiting for something to take the bait. The moment we are certain the bait is noticed, we have the power at hand to decide what to do. We may continue holding on to the stick, letting go of the line, or even learn about the flow of the water, which indicates the convergence of things in the vicinity. The more we practise such a guided observation, which may configure putting the self into what may seem from the outside as a period of suffering, the more we understand why Buddha, the enlightened one, has left the palace to understand his own suffering.


It is not the first time I emphasise what the biggest challenge of living a meaningful life is. And it has nothing to do with the outside but what we feel inside about everything we experience. It is easy to see discrimination and do nothing, as it is easy to close our eyes to every atrocity happening in the environment we are living in, embracing the illusion that everything is good as it could be. That was the vision of life inside a palace in ancient times: slavery, privileges, hierarchy, the rich, the poor, and the unattended. Torture, entrentainment, cover up actions, all to keep the idea of a wonderful and pleasurable environment for a few, which was supported by many. Where is justice and fairness in such an established system? The direct answer is there are not, but the conscious answer depends on how people are treated while occupying the fundamental role of supporting a system of trust.


Buddha, the enlightened one, has realised in his time that he was powerless against the practise of slavery, and one of his biggest challenges was understanding how he could distance himself from it but, at the same time, not closing the eyes to the human beings subjected to that. In our time, 2022, it may be projected to social inequality combined with labouring conditions close to slavery, which are still present around the world, and Brazil, the country I am living in right now, is not excluded from such statistics.


The tough questions we may ask the self are: How could we still live our life with the illusion that atrocities, like armed conflicts, are just something we hear rumours about? Why could we accept the idea of becoming a slave to be explored, being brainwashed that it is the way of living? Why could we get quiet and in silence to the experience of injustice, where a life can be subjected to a lot of atrocities, while everyone involved is acting like one of the three monkey minds that see nothing, hear nothing, or say nothing? How would our reaction be if the subject of such atrocities is ourselves?


In the search for answers, we need to perform our own experiences to understand how the environment we live in works, and how we can take advantage of it for the benefit of our body and mind training. An isolated scene observed from the outside may provide the support to the self jumping into conclusions. However, if we get conscious about the big picture, we can understand that the more we are limited, and restricted from accessing privileged information, the more we have to find, by our own experiences, answers for questions that no one is willing to share, or admit the existence of.


If we do not continue to search for answers, while enhancing the self to support such a journey, we would never step out of the illusion that the opinion of the outside is more valuable that what our third eye is able to see within.


Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓



Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


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