Dealing with the presence of darkness in the surroundings is like materialising ourselves in the middle of an adult kindergarten, where we need to deal with troubled adults behaving like children, turning the environment we’re inserted into chaotic, and playing dead when they get caught doing dishonoured, dishonest, and deceptive actions. That’s what dishonoured, dishonest, and deceptive people do all the time. The more we realise that, the better we understand we would find few people in life we can genuinely trust, and in the majority of the cases, they’re less than or equal to five (5), i.e., we can count using only one hand.


It’s only when we draw a suitable strategy to keep consciousness at hand that we can understand what trust really means and represents. It’s something we can only understand when we wake up to start recognising the presence of darkness in the surroundings. Until then, we continue to live in an illusion of trust, which is the same illusion we live when trusting politicians that are involved in bribery behind our backs. If we aren’t capable of finding out the corruption, we may never be able to understand the role that politicians are playing to deceive and manipulate citizens.


One of the pillars of Buddhism is the Sangha, which is one of the exceptions where we can find more than five people we can genuinely trust. If we’re fortunate enough to form, or be part of a genuine Sangha, the one with genuine intentions and true meaning, we can establish a refuge where we can go and count on when feeling a little bit down, or with less energy to face and deal with any obnoxious, challenging, and difficult situations before us.


If we’re walking this world alone, let’s not worry about the need to find people we can genuinely trust. Maybe we’ve already found them and it’s a matter of time to get along together in the near future. On the contrary, we just need to keep walking the path towards a meaningful life, and we would find trustworthy people, eventually.


Namaste 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓



Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).


Available also in a signed pdf version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HFgS1vlZ4kShcRkerXsx5Ju2pVqB_B46/view?usp=drivesdk


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