It's our awareness of life that's responsible for our suffering. And it's our unwillingness to be mindful of our actions that's imprisoning us in the cesspool of darkness and preventing us from find the unconditioned power of being within us.
From a practical, rational perspective, we are always aware of ourselves as being something. We are constantly conjuring up all types of images of ourselves. And without question, we intend for all of them to make us feel happy.
This little mind game of intellectual gymnastics is our way of playing with ourselves. It's what we use to assuage the suffering and deny its existence. This keeps us inextricably tied to the darkness of victimization.
On some occasions, we use our self-awareness to create images of ourselves as victims: individuals without adequate power in any given situation. Some of us do this because our images of happiness didn't turn out the way we wanted.
Similarly, we sometime create images of ourselves as sycophants aimlessly drifting from one situation to another in search of the next injection of pain and suffering. We do this to confuse our awareness, to make it more illusory. This is our way of remaining asleep.
There are times when we create images to anthropomorphize ourselves as spiritual teachers. These are the images where we cloak ourselves in an elevated awareness -- an awareness greater than those with whom we interact -- to conceal our own suffering.
After we create so many images of ourselves in different forms and states of awareness, we fall into a coma of darkness, overcome by suffering. While in this coma, we continuously relive our images by engaging in past-living scenarios.
By reliving our past images, we remain in a dream-like state all the time. Even though, we believe we are actually awake and free of the illusions causing us to dream, we are still consumed by the darkness created by years of conditioning our minds to function as victims.
For us to awaken from our comas, we must create an awareness of being that's not contingent on anything we have been taught about ourselves. It's the awareness of ourselves as being faceless, formless, and colorless. This is the awareness that allows us to become anything we desire to be.
The light of enlightenment is available to all of us who find ourselves living in the darkness of victimization. And while we might call it awareness, it is so much more than that. It is awareness without the limitations of our victimized beliefs and values.
Nevertheless, most of us go through life without ever living our lives in clarity. We struggle for freedom, when we already have it.
We struggle for love, when we already have it. And we struggle for happiness, when we already have it. All of these things and more are contained within the limitless states of clarified awareness available to each of us.
The happiness we seek is found in our interpretations of our actions and the actions of others. When we find the clarity to change our knowledge of ourselves and others, we will use different information (an enlightened mind) to interpret our actions.
Some of us are already living in the space of clarity, which allows us to accept personal responsibility for all of our actions. This is the clarity we need to go further into the deeper levels of light to guide us as we remove the darkness of victimization from our lives.
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