If I ask you: What do you see in the image? There is a probability that you provide me an answer different from mine, or any other person asked. It is because the image is not totally clear, not showing objectively what has been represented. It is abstract, prone to interpretation, in which the only true answer is obtained from who has created it. All apart from the author's answer rests on the domain of speculation. Talking about suffering on the outside, i.e. observing another, is similar. The only person capable of providing a true answer about an experienced period of suffering is the self. In that direction, performing our mind training is a way to recognise how powerful we are against any speculation, illusion, or negative-conditioned scene we may face in the present moment.


While dealing with our daily activities, from time to time, we may have to face environments and scenes where illusions are presented right in front of our naked eyes. Such illusions are prone to be consumed by our unconscious mind, with little or no understanding about what they represent, and how they are affecting the self in the present moment. To step out from speculation and acquire a true answer about the nature and influence of such illusions in the self, we need to be conscious to observe, analyse, and understand what happens within our own perspective and relativity. We are not able to transfer such duty to another, and even if we find someone willing to assume such duty, there is no possibility of receiving a non-speculative external answer about our own perspective and relativity. That is why we need the informed consent provided in a conscious way, which implies doing nothing more than stimulating that person to find and provide a conscious answer relative to what has been experienced by his/her own. Buddha, the enlightened one, has provided teachings in ancient times describing why he could not help another from his own perspective and relativity. Buddha's teachings are only able, at most, to activate a person's consciousness, which starts observing, analysing, and understanding the perspective and relativity it is part of.


The moment we realise why it is important to be conscious of what we observe in the scene we are inserted into, it is the moment we understand why facing negative conditioning is dealing with external consequences of external illusions we have no power to end up right away.


Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓



Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


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