Enlightened Minds

We are the products of our own minds.

Everything that we have been taught came from the human mind. We can argue about where the inspiration came from, but we cannot argue with the fact that all of our beliefs and values have come from the human mind.

Even the myths we create to help us try and understand our purpose, our actions and our destiny come from the human mind. In other words, our beliefs and values are products of some human mind. So, even when we believe we're erudite, we are imprisoned by the limitations of someone's mind.

If the mind, including our own minds, is responsible for everything in the world, then it means we are also responsible for maintaining and enriching our minds.

We can elect to perpetuate the beliefs and values given to us by society, parents, and from our own living experiences, or we can choose to cleanse the mind of the toxic beliefs and begin the process to create another perspective that defines us with power.

As we know, our minds are full of fanciful things. We imagine all sorts of things and then give them life. We give life to Santa Claus, flying reindeer, little green men from Mars, the Devil, the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, and so on.

Some of us tend to forget that we were born into a world filled with ideas, beliefs, and values time-tested for thousands of years, Some people describe our births as being born into a world of sin, suffering, struggle, and so forth.

Nevertheless, we treat these beliefs and values as sacrosanct. We embody them as reality and begin to see ourselves and the world from the perspective of what we have been taught by others. And in doing this to ourselves, we mitigate the power of our minds to conform with the limitations imposed on us by others.

Many of us never go beyond what others have taught us. We're unable to create another perspective of ourselves with power; a power that comes from within our own unconditioned minds.

This power exists in all human minds. It  is there for our use to overcome the myths about ourselves and others.

For us to go beyond the beliefs and values given to us at birth and nurtured throughout our lives, we must be willing to first understand and accept personal responsibility for embodying our own beliefs and values.

Yes, someone taught us these beliefs and values. And yes, because we accepted them and shaped them into our own reality, we are not bound by them.

We must remain mindful of the awareness that the mind can create all types of images of things not yet seen by others. It's the source of airplanes, missiles, hospitals, churches, prisons, slavery, oppression, racism, wars, and so forth.

Unfortunately, the mind loses much of its imagination and creativity when we hold on to the beliefs and values that we use to define ourselves and the world we live in. When we become too dependent upon others, we diminish our own power.

We begin to believe we are less than others, and that we must do whatever we can to become like the ones we give power to. This is the process of victimization or powerlessness. In other words, we victimize our minds by empowering others with greater power than we give ourselves.

The enlightenment movement today is not about change, but about enlightenment itself. The desires for change, or for something not yet achieved, come from our toxic human minds. They come from the beliefs and values given to us by others.

Similarly, it's the toxicity in our minds that distorts our perception of clarity to see ourselves and the world as we really are. When we remove some of the toxic beliefs, we clearly know that there's nothing to change in the world itself. Everything is exactly the way our minds have created it.

Meanwhile, when we do the work to cleanse our minds of the toxicity distorting who we are, we will be able to create an enlightened  perspective of ourselves and the world.  And then the world will look exactly as our minds have created it.

We are clearly more powerful than what we have been taught by others.