E177: Handling Reality—The True Path to Inner Peace
4/30/202652 min
Suffering arises because we try to make reality match our conditioned preferences, which are based on past experiences stored in the mind and heart. By identifying with these inner patterns, we become reactive, disturbed, and unable to find lasting peace. Liberation comes from stepping back into the seat of awareness, handling reality without resistance, and consistently letting go of stored impressions so they no longer control our lives.
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Hmm, jaggard if most people, almost all of us, get so filled with dogma, beliefs, hopes, dreams, concepts, views, preferences, likes, dislikes, and that's all we see. And that's the truth. We're in here, we're conscious. It's not that you're not conscious, it's what you're conscious of. And what almost all human beings are and always have been conscious of is what is going on in our mind. What it's talking about. I like this, I don't like that, I prefer this, I'm afraid of that. It just talks and it expresses the heart. It expresses what impressions have been made on your heart over the course of your life. I've explained it to you a million times. That talk inside your head, I'm not talking about intellectual talk, I'm talking about personal talk. What I like, what I don't like, what I want, what my goals are, what's right, all kinds of stuff goes on in there. It's all because of impressions that got left deep in your heart over the course of your life. Something hurts you, it leaves a mark on the heart. It talks about that. It comes back at various times. You dream about it. It's trying to release from the heart, but you kept it down there. You suppressed it. You held on to it down