Friday, November 20, 2009

The Space Beyond the Doubts

There are some days when we feel powerless in spite of the work we are doing to change our lives. These are the days when we think about stopping or changing directions.

For some of us, we choose to sit with the feelings of powerlessness to help us gain a greater understanding of what's happening in our lives. And by doing this, we will achieve the clarity to perceive our lives existing without confusion and conflict.

When we have clarity, we perceive purposefulness with mindful attitude, especially in pursuit of our goal to achieve enlightenment. This frees us to think and live life more abundantly. Nevertheless, for some of us, whenever we believe we are free, we seem to discover new, more innovative ways to imprison ourselves again.

To become imprisoned by our thoughts is live in a cesspool of doubts. This is a petri dish for victim consciousness. With each action we take, we create more and more doubts. After awhile, our doubts become the prison we are seeking to escape from.

When we are working to escape by freeing ourselves from our doubts, we begin by imagining what freedom looks and feels like. This allows us to create images of ourselves existing without doubts. These mind games become puzzles with hundreds of disconnected pieces of doubt floating aimlessly in our minds.

For some of us, we become overwhelmed by the number of pieces missing from the image we have created of our freedom. The images manifesting themselves as space, money, power, fame, health, and so on, are what victims believe represent freedom. We give these things form and life while encapsulating ourselves in prisons of doubt.

From a victim's perspective, doubts are very powerful judgements about who we are and the world we live in. They exists because we exist. They are powerful because we are powerless. They demean us because we demean ourselves. They enslave us with victim beliefs and we believe we are slaves to our thoughts. They weaken our resolve to change the way we think and live. And, most importantly, they destroy our will to live with happiness.

To overcome our doubts require us to become aware of who we are and the power we have to change how we think and live. If we believe we are in a prison cell, enclosed by bars of doubts, then we have to do a considerable amount of work to change how we're perceiving the power we have to solve our own problems.

On the other hand, whether we like it or not, we are whoever we believe we are. If we believe we are free to express thoughts and beliefs that empower us to change how we think and live, then we are much closer to gaining the necessary clarity we need to achieve our goal of enlightenment.

Meanwhile, for us to grow and achieve the freedom of true enlightenment, we must first gain clarity about how to use the power we have now. Some of us misuse our powers by constantly believing we are victims while denying ourselves to be empowered. Unfortunately, our doubts cloud our vision of empowerment. This causes our power to overcome to wilt, to become weak and become an albatross destroying our will to change how we think and live.

Similarly, our power to overcome must be greater than the power we use to imprison ourselves with doubts. To access this power, we must still the mind to gain the necessary clarity to perceive the space or gap existing between our problems and our desires for freedom. This the space where we find the clarity to understand how pain and suffering exists. And it is where we learn how to think without burdening ourselves with self-imposed doubts.

For us to reach the level of space we must first believe in its existence. That is, that there's an existence of consciousness between the problem (pain and suffering) and the solution (freedom). And in this consciousness, we clearly understand that freedom can only be achieved by action. It's our actions that connect us to our beliefs. Moreover, it's our actions that guide us to the space or gap between thinking like victims or acting like we are empowered.

The power to change is within the clarity we seek. It is present in the space beyond the problems, near the solutions.

We can get further insights from: "Seeds from the Ashes" and "Let There Be Life" available on http://www.amazon.com/ and bookstores.

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