Your world is as it is because you are continually talking about it being as it is. Do you see? Talking about how it should be, could be, or how you would like it to be reinforces what you think it is. Yes, you can change your talk and thinking too, but that only replaces one thing with another, and the world continues with your “talk” of “how it is.”
Turn it off altogether, talking and thinking. That will give the world a chance to unfold as it does and take you out of making assessments about its unfolding. It will also alter your mood to one of you, happening to the world rather than it happening to you. Best of all, however, is the quiet you experience when you’re not talking.
Bozebits
Humans give away too much power to the confusion generated by their minds that seek “reasons and whys” where none exist. They even buy into the added confusion sown by others doing the same thing.
The majority of thinking, yours and theirs (mine too), is repetition and a drone playing on and on without any allowance for something new and real that lies beyond the chatter. It’s a wonder we even call it thinking and perhaps another reason not to give credence to what others “think” of you, me, us, or anything else. Most of our so-called thinking isn’t thinking! Do you see?
The only thought worth having is “no thought.” It starts in exquisite silence, and if allowed to remain so without running through a gauntlet of mind-based repetition, awareness pops out. Now, that might be something to (not) think about.
Bozebits
Outside anything thought otherwise, you are the guardian of “otherness” you (and everyone) experience occasionally. However, all that “thinking” you do transforms the guardian into a guard protecting you from otherness and tying you to the world’s logic and routines. Do you see?
The guardian of mystery doesn’t protect you from the unknown. It walks you through it while the guard keeps you tightly locked up and secured from it. Routine and familiarity are not safety. They’re tyranny.
YOU know the way through any prison. It doesn’t require any proclamations or sword-wielding demonstrations of boldness, courage, strength, or bravery. Walk past your guards who sleep in constant noise. Shh, don’t wake them!
Bozebits
Hypocrisy subtly shows itself as your reaction to someone else doing what you would never do for their reasons but militantly and aggressively doing it for your own. It is easy to bury your emotional turbulence in the face of others showing theirs. Neither softens the blow of indignation.
Love will do that, but love cannot exclude those “others” you mask your hypocrisy behind. They are you. You are them. Love for “you” has never been needed more. There is beauty present right now. Can you see it?
Bozebits
Ego feasts on all mind-made judgments of “good and evil” and dooms everyone because of its various distinctions between the two. Do you see? All “sides” in human experience are gourmet dining to a ravenous ego. Yes, even yours and you are fed well regardless of what variation you choose.
Stop choosing! There is a joy to be had right now, but you must stop gorging yourself on the fruits (ideas) of good and evil. Seriously, real, undefined, unencumbered happiness beyond the frenzied feast!
Bozebits
Everything is as it is; no one can refute or change that. However, humans have spent thousands, if not millions of years, struggling against it, and for what? Humans have reasoned that we can improve what we have failed to see. We’ve concluded that we’re smarter than the creation that allowed us to experience the created; thus, in our hubris, “we will fix it.” Do you see the arrogance?
If you are on any side of “fixing” the world or anyone/anything in it, you are the problem, not its solution. Humility does not exist in the noise of the crowd. No, not even yours. However, humility is the only peace on Earth you will ever experience.
The simple answer to life’s mysteries is “I don’t know,” but not knowing in no way affects your experience. It might even add some “peace” you had not seen before.
Bozebits
Your spoken or unspoken unworthiness, imperfection, sadness, fear, etc., is your mind’s rejection of what it recognizes but fails to know. That is, “what YOU are,” underneath all the labels you apply to yourself, is pushed aside more fiercely and clung to as the necessary evil of your existence. It is often called suffering.
In other words, your mind is afraid of “what YOU are” to the extent that it accepts and forms lies that virtue and perfection are something you are not. Do you see? Your mind utters judgments because it cannot fathom the impossible, and “what YOU are” is the ‘impossible.”
Without any of your mind-made or human-made labels, what (ultimately) are YOU? You’ll never know if any answer contains even a remnant of those labels. You’re perfect! Don’t believe it; silence your thoughts and “know it.” You (really) can “know.”
Bozebits
Don’t judge when in doubt about people, places, or things. When sure, don’t judge. There is no such thing as a non-egoic judgment, just as there is no such thing as righteous judgment. Be active in life; participate and “be about being,” but don’t judge any part of it with any part of your reason or beliefs. When it comes to judgments, you’re always wrong. Me too 😊
Bozebits
If we continue to see things in terms of right and wrong, we will never resolve the fundamental argument with life most of us have, e.g., “Why is life not fair?” Life does not care what you think and why you think it. It moves constantly and inexorably into new horizons that only a mind free of argument can experience.
Life is fair, but only a mind that divides it into rightness and wrongness will question it otherwise. This is the biggest reason for being “out of your mind.”
Bozebits
All your thoughts about why something happened or how it affected you never really satisfy the ego, nor will understanding why things happen as they do, do nothing to alter the experience. Embracing life is accepting what is without a judgment or reason for it. It’s a leap into the unknowable. Hold on to nothing, and YOU are everything.