To accede to conditioning is to live a lie, and a tumultuous, uncomfortable lie at that. Most of us live lives blindly controlled by subconscious instincts run amok. We are pin-balls pinging between "acquire" and "avoid" in a ceaseless quest to assuage the unquenchable. We are raw nerves constantly juiced by low voltage anxiety. That is the ego's straw man, fear in a thousand forms: as survival instinct, as craving, as an urge to power and acquisition, as every selfish and self-centered act we commit every day of our lives. Anxiety is fear at a low boil, and unrecognized it becomes corrosive through its gnawing "not enough, never enough" mantra forever plaguing and driving us to distraction.
Ego will spit in the eye of truth--the sound of one hand clapping is its death knell.
Freedom is immanent and imminent for us. Do we choose the known, the "safe," with its inherent restlessness, irritability and discontent? Or will it be peace beyond understanding, beyond ego, peace that answers all questions and ends all anxiety?
"Only when the mind is totally purified of all conditioning does it regain its utter purity; that mind experiences liberation." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Ego will spit in the eye of truth--the sound of one hand clapping is its death knell.
Freedom is immanent and imminent for us. Do we choose the known, the "safe," with its inherent restlessness, irritability and discontent? Or will it be peace beyond understanding, beyond ego, peace that answers all questions and ends all anxiety?
"Only when the mind is totally purified of all conditioning does it regain its utter purity; that mind experiences liberation." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
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