It’s worth reminding ourselves often that destructive thoughts like “What terrible traffic,” “No one loves me,” or “I’m so sick” work just as effectively as any constructive thoughts—sometimes even more so when paired with strong emotions and sensations.
Awareness is necessary to notice the thoughts we truly don’t want to manifest.
I actually think monks and meditating ascetics miss the point when they focus solely on purification. Their energy would be better spent visualizing a world without war. Instead, they sit and chant, “No water, no moon.”
If a person’s focus is not on how wonderful they are or what they can create alone, but rather on what they can create with and for others, then their aim should shift away from self-expression toward enabling others to express themselves as fully as possible. This doesn’t deny anyone the right to self-expression. But when the main goal is to empower others’ expression, one’s own expression naturally recedes, along with the need to be noticed. This frees one from dependence on others’ opinions. Self-expression then becomes an act of freedom, not a search for recognition or acceptance. And when recognition does come, it is appreciated as a joyful bonus—not an expectation. This reveals the true modesty of the creator.
It just struck me. I don’t know why it took so long to see this…
Why do we need awareness—plainly?
To avoid being an asshole and ruining life for ourselves and everyone around us. For ourselves first and foremost. And then for those around us, one way or another. Without awareness, even love can become poison and suffering. Without awareness, communication is pain and betrayal. Without awareness, people become enemies and assholes—because they, too, are unaware.
Only awareness lets us see the beauty of life and love.
And what is the beauty of life and love?
It’s in letting everything be. Everything. Be. Letting it enter your heart, and allowing it to remain there—everything and everyone, forever.
Because, on a universal scale, everything and everyone is perfection. And Love.
Everything in this world happens for a reason. Some of us are here to understand through pain and suffering that everything is Love. Others are here to create the conditions for that understanding.
Is this life?
All seminars, trainings, meditations, Semorons, Yogas, and similar practices are essentially designed to help us stop identifying with our thoughts—to stop thinking that something is wrong with us, the world, or those around us. That our appearance, status, bank account, or body isn’t enough. That others’ attitudes, reliability, or mental stability aren’t okay. That politics, the economy, safety, or legality aren’t okay. We start thinking about these things the moment we wake up and often continue until we sleep—and sometimes even in sleep. We think or worry because of one primal drive: survival. Survival coded deep in our genes from ancestors who could literally become someone’s lunch. The troglodytes may be gone, but the fear remains real—literal or not.
Once we recognize that this fear is merely a legacy of humanity’s long history, unrelated to us personally, and that “being eaten” only happens in our imagination, the world we see on our screens finally becomes what it truly is: clay from which we can shape anything. Understanding this simplifies everything. If you shape universal destruction, destruction is what you get. If you shape universal prosperity, prosperity is yours. Everything comes from your clay, whatever you imagine.
But if you shape fear of survival, your entire life will be filled with it. Is that really living?
All conscious people share one thing: Love. All unconscious people are unique combinations of fears and insecurities.
Accepting that we are “undeserving” is no different from accepting that we are “deserving.” Both are valid forms of acceptance. What matters is what we choose to accept. So why not choose what moves us toward progress rather than destruction?
