Let's face it, most of us are just waking up everyday. We're not living our lives with any passion or purpose. We are just working hard on not dying, or at least we think we are.
The thought of facing life each day makes us reach for something to motivate us to get out of bed. Perhaps it's money, a project, school, work, or even meeting someone for a romantic rendezvous. Whatever it is, it's not satisfying our desires to liberate our minds of the toxic beliefs disguising themselves as illusions.
For us to find the clarity and peace we desire to have in our lives, we have to focus on ourselves. We must ask ourselves: why do we act the way we do? Is it because we have been trained to act this way? Are we doomed to live a life of suffering?
Sadly, we don't really know why we concern ourselves with trying to liberate other people from their suffering when we have so much suffering in our own lives. Perhaps it's our way of handling the suffering. And what's even sadder is how many people listen to us when we tell them we can solve their problems for them.
The power we seek is within our minds. It's the only connection we have to ourselves and the world. All of our ideas, decisions, and actions come from our minds. Even the beliefs we have about race, religion, politics, money, values, status, government, and other people come from the data we have stored in our minds.
At the core level of our existence, we don't really know who we are, or what we have been taught to believe about ourselves. In this miasma of dogma and egoism we struggle to make sense of our existence.
Nevertheless, the quality of our existence is determined by our minds. If we don't take the time to examine and remove the illusions that's preventing us from discovering who we are, then we must accept how others define us.
And if we desire to change our conditions, we must reach higher into our minds. We must work to free the mind so it can go beyond our current limitations. It's similar to going from basic mathematics to calculus or symbolic logic. If we stop at the basic mathematics level, we will never discover the existence of calculus or symbolic logic.
Similarly, because we don't know something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It also doesn't mean we don't have the power to discover this existence and use it to either guide us deeper into our minds or treat it as an obstacle to the clarity we seek.
In my book, Seeds from the Ashes, I write about how to begin the process of self-discovery of the mind. The following informaton highlights this process:
"On your journey to achieve enough power to change your life, you must continue to search for it within your mind, which is where your intuitive (unconditioned) consciousness is found.
"This power must not be confused with illusionary powers found in societal positions such as the president of a country or a major corporation.
"Whenever you think about achieving power, it means that either you are in an unpleasant situation or you have doubts about your abilities to obtain something that you desire to possess.
"Regardless of your level of awareness, the desire for power is always present in your consciousness. What you think and know about yourself determines what you think and know about expressing power.
"The purpose of changing your life is to assert that you have the power to do it. When you do, you open mind to see limitless possibilities; however, you must be willing to open your mind."
The choice to seek the power within our minds is ours to make.
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