We Don't Have to Struggle, if we Don't Want to

Many people believe we have to struggle to get what we want it life. In fact, some of them consider it a badge of honor or respect to identify with "The Struggle."

Fortunately, today, with the presence of enlightenment shining brightly in the world, we don't have to struggle, if we don't want to.

Whenever we struggle, we are fighting for something outside of ourselves. We want something -- freedom, money, acceptance, education, and so on -- to make us feel more complete.

And by struggling for it, we believe it represents hard work or some other antiquated folklore about how to achieve success.

We are born complete and perfect in every way. Our imperfections come from our beliefs about how we look, how much money we have, where we live, where we attended school, and what the world thinks about us.  All of this and much more is what causes us to believe in struggle.

The mind-games we play with ourselves about who we are, and the things we want in life inextricably tie us to illusory beliefs about our incompleteness and what we need to do to make ourselves better or more complete.

In other words, we begin searching for something we already have, but we cannot recognize it within ourselves because of the beliefs and values that we're using to define ourselves.

For us to stop struggling, we first must understand how we are living, and how we formed the beliefs that we use to interpret our actions and our relationship with the world. 

This awareness is usually sufficient enough for us to become cognizant that we are always acting according to our beliefs and values.

Similarly, as advocates of our own struggling, we perceive the world from the prism of incompleteness. This belief of incompleteness is what overwhelms us with doubts and cause us to feel small,  insignificant, and incomplete in a world we have created with our beliefs and values.

Unfortunately, this world that we've created is nothing more than an illusion that we claim as our reality.

To begin perceiving the world with different beliefs and values will mitigate our struggling. This new perception of ourselves and the world will create the clarity for us to begin perceiving our lives with less struggle.

And most importantly, we will understand that struggling is a societal concept of make believe; a fairy tale.

When we work to achieve our goals, we are being creative. There's a major distinction between struggle and creativity.

One important distinction between struggle and creativity is that creativity is the foundation of our consciousness of clear awareness. In other words, it's our awareness to know that our minds are the source of both our struggles and freedom. 

This freedom of mind begins with our awareness of its existence. Each of us must take the time to discover it within our own minds. And while it takes some work and time to discover the power we already have within us, the rewards are significant.

And when we discover this great power within our minds, we free ourselves from the beliefs and values that cause us to believe we are incomplete.

Some of us call this new found freedom or clarity -- enlightenment. And there's no doubt about it whatsoever that there's no struggle in an enlightened mind.