For many of us, it's difficult to let go of what we have been taught. We use our beliefs and values to defend ourselves whenever we are challenged by others. This is when we cling to them as if they are sacrosanct.
This habit of clinging or defending what we have been taught continues to mitigate our own power. It's easy for us to forget how easy it is to forget where they came from: People with toxic distortions preventing them from seeing the world clearly.
Some of us have reached the point where we find it to be exhilarating to cling to toxic information without realizing it's toxic. Even today, when many of us facing the disquietude of unemployment, imminent home foreclosure and bankruptcy, we seek refugee in our beliefs and values.
We've imprisoned our minds in a web of mindful distortions that cause us to believe that some of our beliefs and values are good, while others are judged to be bad. We have forgotten that the mind making the judgments about good and bad is one consumed by toxic distortions.
Many of us like to believe that we don't know why we're in this world. We attribute our existence to all types of beliefs that we learned from others.
Powers of mind mean we exist because our minds tell us so. Everything we do, every choice we make, come from a repository of beliefs and values we use to interpret the world and ourselves.
And depending on the type of beliefs and values we use to guide us in this world, we judge things to be good or bad without realizing it's our beliefs and values making the judgments.
Somewhere in our minds is the source of clarity about who we are, and our purpose for being in this world. It's truly our sacred inheritance to this world. It's the part of the mind that escapes all the probing from outside sources such as psychologists, psychiatrists, gurus, and so on.
When we go deeper, beyond the judgments of right and wrong or good and bad, we discover that we have far more power than what we have been taught by others.
At the point of clarity, we know that all our efforts to succeed in this world are fruitless unless we discover how to perceive ourselves without toxic distortions.
Nevertheless, many of us believe we have found the answers to our limitless power because of our education, career, wealth, status, and so forth. And it's from this prism that we perceive ourselves and the world. This is the power we're using to discover the clarity in our minds to see the world clearly.
This distorted perspective of ourselves and the world empowers our minds to play tricks on us so that we believe we have actually done something meaningful with our lives.
And even when we attempt to rationalize our lives to ourselves, we imagine flowery images in our obituaries extolling the virtues of our education, wealth, the status we held in our community, and the good we believe we provided to others. We do so, without having achieved the clarity to see ourselves and others without toxic distortions.
Nevertheless, at the end of the day, most of us leave this world with our original beliefs and values intact. The same beliefs and values taught us as children remained with us for our entire lives. Unfortunately, we forgot they were taught to us by our parents, our society, and from our life experiences.
All power exists in our minds.
And everything outside of our minds must be interpreted by our minds.
When our minds become clean, we're able to see the world as it is without the toxic distortions causing to judge events as good or bad or right and wrong.
All power exists in our minds.
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