The day begins when we awake, it ends when we sleep. During the interval between awakening and sleeping, some of us find our lives to be rewarding. While many of us find ourselves mired deeply in the struggles of survival and overwhelmed by our suffering.
Some of us don't have any idea of what it means to live a fulfilling life, particularly with minds besieged by cesspools of victimization and suffering. And like any adaptable animal, we swim in our cesspools without regard for the stench permeating our minds with deleterious victim beliefs.
This constant inhaling of victim beliefs provide us with few opportunities to fulfill our dreams. However, there are times, albeit infrequent ones, where we do get glimpses of living fulfilled lives. Unfortunately, they seem to come and go without our having any control over them. Poof! One moment we're feeling good about ourselves, the next moment we're feeling depressed.
During most of waking hours, we are busy chasing after things and people to bring us fulfillment. We stuff our minds with delusional visions of having a nice car, suit, house, an expensive watch or a beautiful person to make us feel complete, fulfilled. We seldom spend comparable time searching for enlightenment.
It's difficult for some of us to believe enlightenment is as valuable as material things. The things in our lives are more important than abstractness -- the invisible power within us -- in bringing us the worthiness we seek. Consequently, we spend very little time on discovering our inner power. A house is real. So it is an automobile, clothes, entertainment, and so forth.
Similarly, many of our journeys are predetermined for us. The maps have already been created to show us the right roads to travel on. These well-traveled roads, paved with beliefs of materialism, egoism, glitter and psychological gratification. We travel on them because most of the people encourage us to. They point to the deep craters of suffering, neatly decorated by victim beliefs, as testament to the benefits you receive if stay on the victim road.
Today, some of us are tired of living in the squalid conditions within the repugnant cesspools of victimization. We want to travel on new roads. However, for us to travel on new roads, we have to build them. They only exist in our minds. Fortunately, there are some maps to guide us to some less traveled roads. These are the roads created by the enlightenment engineers. They are smooth and free of litter and the stench of victimization.
One of the first things we notice on the enlightenment road is fulfillment. Every action is a fulfillment of our desires to liberate ourselves from the cesspool of victimization. We are able to spend our waking hours pursuing enlightenment, the fulfillment we seek
The important thing for us to remember is that we can get off the victimization road. We can awake each day with the vision and clarity to overcome the suffering we are creating in our lives by our beliefs. When we change our beliefs, we change our paths, our journeys. This means we must travel on some less traveled roads.
It's not difficult to do. All that's required of us is the willingness to stop abusing ourselves with victim (powerlessness) beliefs and search for the map (insight) within us that will guide us to enlightenment.. This is the moment when we stop chasing the illusions of victimization.
Meanwhile, from our suffering come seeds of enlightenment. Some of those seeds are planted in "Seeds from the Ashes."
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