MINDSET: IN A DREAM World
Oscar Wilde once remarked, "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
As he so wryly observed, the vast majority of us are not who we've been pretending to be, and the lives we've been living until now are moulded according to rules and values that are not our own. Most of humanity is stuck in someone else's discarded chewing gum and is yet to break free.
Unless you have been brave enough to forsake this trap, here is your likely portrait: your religious convictions are those of your parents or community and your political allegiances conform to the party system that society offers.
These are desirable choices that hold societies together. They make you who you are, you might argue. True, but only if you are content with admiring the wrapping and never looking inside the box.
If you dared to look, you'd discover how these basic thoughts originate in a fundamental belief formed during the first years of your life.
Children typically bend their perceptions and interpretations of reality to match those who care for them. They find ways to please in order to receive attention.
As they grow up, the issues may change, but the initial patterns of conformity remain ingrained in them. The price for surrendering to consensus is steep.
It is nothing less than the loss of individuality. You disengage from the grandness of the creation and implode into the holographic illusion humans have come to call reality.
You become one of Oscar Wilde's other people, thinking someone else's opinions and assuming they are your own.
We are trapped in the daily drama the culture and the media feed us. A thirty-second news bite can push our buttons.
We get hooked, liberally lacing our collective guts with corrosive biochemicals unleashed by our righteous indignation.
This condition is virtually universal. It is also the underlying cause of the world as we know it.
People cling so tightly to their personal and social identities that they are blinded to anything that does not validate them. The way out is easier than anyone might imagine.
However, very few summon the courage, for it requires them to leave the comfort of their known world and walk alone, unaided by the crutch of dogma.
Most people would rather get caught up in the business of earning a living, raising a family, or helping their community than deal with the unsettling immensity of all that is.
Yet it seems that all humans are meant to take this epic journey of discovery at some point in their series of lives on this planet.
If you choose to walk this path, you will find yourself gaining a new perspective — that of consciousness, where the mind, with its judgments and emotions, ceases to dominate and the heart is your only reliable guide.
The great issues of your daily life that once commanded your attention now seem wondrously arbitrary and irrelevant — simply interesting.
You now see the illusion for what it is: a game-board projection designed so aspects of the Oneness can experience duality, fear, and separation. It is no more real than a programmed matrix in a computer game.
You and I are merely units of awareness projected into the matrix, defining ourselves by the points through which we view and believing what we see to be reality.
Who did the projecting? You. Who is the projection? You. There is only you. How do you get to this liberating place from which you can see the larger picture?
The cosmic formula of creation is gloriously simple: Attention + Intention = Manifestation. Nothing in the universe evades this law.
The reality you perceive is entirely a function of the only two forces at your command: your attention and your intention.
Bring conscious awareness to this equation — consciously monitor your attention and intention and what you are manifesting and everything changes.
Through this process of self-observation it will become increasingly clear that the part of you that is projected into the illusion is in trouble.
This realisation marks the beginning of your journey out of the illusion. Once you begin to couple the law with the concept of Oneness, you begin to see a completely different picture. You are all that is. There is nothing to attain and no lessons to learn.
Courtesy: TOI
As he so wryly observed, the vast majority of us are not who we've been pretending to be, and the lives we've been living until now are moulded according to rules and values that are not our own. Most of humanity is stuck in someone else's discarded chewing gum and is yet to break free.
Unless you have been brave enough to forsake this trap, here is your likely portrait: your religious convictions are those of your parents or community and your political allegiances conform to the party system that society offers.
These are desirable choices that hold societies together. They make you who you are, you might argue. True, but only if you are content with admiring the wrapping and never looking inside the box.
If you dared to look, you'd discover how these basic thoughts originate in a fundamental belief formed during the first years of your life.
Children typically bend their perceptions and interpretations of reality to match those who care for them. They find ways to please in order to receive attention.
As they grow up, the issues may change, but the initial patterns of conformity remain ingrained in them. The price for surrendering to consensus is steep.
It is nothing less than the loss of individuality. You disengage from the grandness of the creation and implode into the holographic illusion humans have come to call reality.
You become one of Oscar Wilde's other people, thinking someone else's opinions and assuming they are your own.
We are trapped in the daily drama the culture and the media feed us. A thirty-second news bite can push our buttons.
We get hooked, liberally lacing our collective guts with corrosive biochemicals unleashed by our righteous indignation.
This condition is virtually universal. It is also the underlying cause of the world as we know it.
People cling so tightly to their personal and social identities that they are blinded to anything that does not validate them. The way out is easier than anyone might imagine.
However, very few summon the courage, for it requires them to leave the comfort of their known world and walk alone, unaided by the crutch of dogma.
Most people would rather get caught up in the business of earning a living, raising a family, or helping their community than deal with the unsettling immensity of all that is.
Yet it seems that all humans are meant to take this epic journey of discovery at some point in their series of lives on this planet.
If you choose to walk this path, you will find yourself gaining a new perspective — that of consciousness, where the mind, with its judgments and emotions, ceases to dominate and the heart is your only reliable guide.
The great issues of your daily life that once commanded your attention now seem wondrously arbitrary and irrelevant — simply interesting.
You now see the illusion for what it is: a game-board projection designed so aspects of the Oneness can experience duality, fear, and separation. It is no more real than a programmed matrix in a computer game.
You and I are merely units of awareness projected into the matrix, defining ourselves by the points through which we view and believing what we see to be reality.
Who did the projecting? You. Who is the projection? You. There is only you. How do you get to this liberating place from which you can see the larger picture?
The cosmic formula of creation is gloriously simple: Attention + Intention = Manifestation. Nothing in the universe evades this law.
The reality you perceive is entirely a function of the only two forces at your command: your attention and your intention.
Bring conscious awareness to this equation — consciously monitor your attention and intention and what you are manifesting and everything changes.
Through this process of self-observation it will become increasingly clear that the part of you that is projected into the illusion is in trouble.
This realisation marks the beginning of your journey out of the illusion. Once you begin to couple the law with the concept of Oneness, you begin to see a completely different picture. You are all that is. There is nothing to attain and no lessons to learn.
Courtesy: TOI
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