It's difficult for many victims to believe it's possible to change how we think and live. For us, we believe victim consciousness is a self-evident truth. This means, we believe it's impossible for us to change.
We have become so consciously embedded with images of ourselves as powerless that we find it easier to remain mired in victimized lifestyles than take the action to do something about it. Unfortunately, this is a self-evident truth for victims.
We hold this truth self-evident, all victims think of ourselves as powerless to change the way we think and live.
Whenever we embrace or accept something, anything, as a self-evident truth, we become inextricably tied to victim beliefs. And as victims of our powerless beliefs, we embody information that keeps us in pain and suffering. It is from this level of pain and suffering that we must begin our activities to rebuild ourselves with empowered beliefs.
Some of the difficulties we face with overcoming beliefs that we believe are self-evident truths are our unwillingness to stop believing we are powerless. By powerless, we don't have to be poor, unemployed, anonymous. No, powerlessness is present whenever we encounter something in life that we believe we cannot overcome.
Powerlessness is what leads us to prayer, to meditation. It is present in all of us who have not achieved enlightenment.
Nevertheless, our nagging feelings on self-evident truths are real.They exist in us like axioms exist in mathematical equations. And like axioms, whenever something has already been established as valid, self-evident, there's no need for us to examine it any further. For us, nothing is further from the truth we seek.
For sentient beings seeking spiritual enlightenment there are no self-evident truths to define us today. We are so much greater than mathematical equations or societal labels. The only self-evident truths we have before us are those that define us with limitless power. Everything else is an illusion.
The utilitarian value of self-evident truths is immeasurable in terms of assisting us with understanding the true nature of self-evident truths, and their power to keep us victimized. We would have never known of their existence until we began our search to achieve enlightenment. However, now that we do, we must do everything we can to rid them from our consciousness.
Meanwhile, to remove self-evident truths from our beliefs system is done by thinking. We cannot just think, we must think clearly. For us to think without clarity is dangerous. And to think with victim beliefs is even worse; it's catastrophic.
For most of us, thinking is a pleasurable experience, if it's done properly. Unfortunately, when it's done improperly, we reap the benefits in dosages of pain and suffering. Although we interpret the benefits as bolstering our egos, they are the toxic thoughts acting as agents for our pain and suffering.
Similarly, most of us seldom, if ever, just think without any attachments whatsoever. We constantly think according to what we believe to be true about who we are in any given moment in time. This type of thinking is congruent with our acceptance of self-evident truths about our victimized lives.
Meanwhile, even when we think we're not thinking, we are. Every problem requires thinking. Every activity requires thinking. Everything in the future and past require thinking. And whenever we think, we are the centerpiece of the thinking.
Today, while living in the midst of great uncertainty in the world, we are thinking about many things. Foremost among them are our families, our health, our careers, and most importantly, our lives. We are not thinking very much about victim consciousness, because it appears everyone is now a victim of uncertainty. For some of us, this is a self-evident truth about the world we live in.
For those of us working to change how we think and live, we must eschew these types of self-evident truths. We must position our minds to perceive the world and ourselves existing with limitless possibilities for us to change how we think and live. To do this, we must think without attachments to victim beliefs.
For some of us, thinking without victim beliefs is unthinkable. We have become so accustomed to thinking and living as victims that we find it easier to engage in intellectual gymnastics about politics, religion, race, and so forth than to work on the victim beliefs causing us to think this way. We participate in so many mindless, meaningless conversations that we forget it's just us thinking and acting as victims in a world of uncertainty.
The more we embody self-evident truths of ourselves as victims, the more we belief our victim beliefs are sacrosanct. Moreover, we begin to believe and accept we were born into the world as victims. Unfortunately, it's this type of thinking that ties us to self-evident truths about human behavior. And this allows us to cling more tightly to our victim beliefs and accept our fates as victims.
Meanwhile, for us to overcome this type of thinking we must be willing to investigate everything we have been taught. And we must do this without using victim beliefs. In other words, we cannot cling to self-evident truths about religion, ethics, philosophy, psychology, and so forth. To do so, invalidates self-discovery. Moreover, why bother with self-discovery if we have already decided what's off limits.
While self-discovery is an ongoing process, it is also a liberating one. At each level of growth, we free ourselves from the previous one.
As victims, whenever we search for something, we begin by placing self-imposed restrictions on which beliefs we claim as sacrosanct, or those we're unwilling to examine. This is analogous to us searching for enlightenment and being unwilling to examine our attachments to spiritual dogma. This is what causes so many of us stop our search for enlightenment after a few years. We are unwilling to go to the next level by letting go of the beliefs that tie us to victim consciousness.
According to Seeds from the Ashes, "When you discover the wisdom hidden in your mind, you will know the truth about yourself."
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