Struggle, Status, Competition, Violence

It is this struggle for status, to be somebody, to be somebody compared to others, that brings about coercion, competition, bullying, violence, abuse.

We are taught to struggle; in the struggle we dominate others and subjugate others. In the family, on the schoolyard, at the workplace, between nations, in the economic sphere; we are committing atrocities against each other daily.

Original

What is true, what is life, what is creative, comes from inside. The tendency to wait for others to do it before you do it, to follow others, to put on a show, are ways of imitating and not being true, not being original, and it comes from fear.

Being hopeful and positive reveals the fact that you are in despair and have no depth or truth to your heart.

The superficial pretense is a way of avoiding, a way of masking what is actually there.

Depth and truth come from actually looking, actually seeing, not escaping.

Creativity springs up inwardly.

The individual only exists when there is no conformity of heart, no comparison, no pretense, no following, no fear.

What You Want Controls You

You want security, you want money, you want approval from people; these things control you. Without the desire for these things, they would never affect you.

Your desire distorts your mind. What you want destroys you.

Psychological Time is Illusion

Any movement in psychological time, what will be, what should be, ideals, hopes, fear, is illusory. All of what has been being projected into what will be, is illusory. It creates struggle, tension, conflict, disorder. It will revert to its opposite; hope reverts to despair, and comes from despair.

You must understand your despair, not hope.

Nowhere to Go

The reason why you can't look at yourself is because you're already there. There is no you to look at you. If so, you are divided, and there's where you'll find the source of conflict. What you try to be is illusion. You can't go anywhere that does not exist. And you venture farther away from truth with your pretense and hope. Therein lies the whole reason why there is war, poverty, and hate. Your ideals, your identifications, your hope, your trust, your beliefs: These are all ways to escape and to create division. And when they fail you, and they will, you are bitter and disoriented.

There is nowhere to go. You are right there. There's no path to truth. The many paths are sources of division and confusion. There's no method, methods are hypnotism and distraction. Just look and see. Just pay attention. If you can't see, then find out why. Inquire, investigate, but don't put on the pretense. The pretense is the whole reason you can't see in the first place.

I Am a Projection of Thought

It's not a matter of pretending that the past does not exist. It's a matter of realizing it's illusory, a concoction, and that we're caught in the concoction. It's a matter of realizing that psychological time is memory, a recording, and various projections. It's a matter of seeing all that in a whole way and, therefore, seeing that it takes multiple forms, though it's all the same thing. Whether it is hero-worship, ideology and doctrine, identity, politics, or self-projection as self-importance and status, it's all the same process: Me and mine.

"I" am made up of the past and projections into the future; all products, fabrications, of thought. And the tragedy is that something so completely fake can cause brutality, murder, isolation, and sorrow.

Freedom from Influence is to be Nothing

There is great freedom is not being influenced; in not trying to be other people, in not doing what others want.

But we find security in belonging to the group and having an identity tied to the group; and that's where we get controlled and directed, setting up constant conflict and the need to defend identity, the group and ideology.

When you are just living, not being something, not holding to identity and ideology and group association, then the mind is free and perception is direct, clear, whole, sane and healthy.

And that is comprehensive living, with true insight and undivided awareness.