Why are you unhappy? Why are living a pointless existence, where we always want something and we are never satisfied with what we have? What’ s the point of this continuous, painful search of something we don’t know what it is? We die anyway…
Here is one explanation.
You are completely and utterly asleep, lost in a dream.
Einstein said “the true measure of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.”
The thinking and the existence of the self is not bad. Thinking is a wonderful tool when the mind is in service of the heart.
Yes, you think. And that’s good. However, mind has never brought happiness. It, alone, is not enough.
The mind makes a good servant but a poor master.
The ego perpetually filters reality through languages and labels and is constantly judging, prefering one thing over another.
When the mind and senses are the master they will create endless suffering, endless craving and aversion, locking us into the matrix of thinking.
Do not judge your thoughts as good or bad, but find out who you are prior to thought, prior to the senses. When all labels are dropped,then it is possible to see things as they are.
Do you think that you are free, conscious and awake?
But if you are already awake, then why would do the difficult work to attain what you believe you already have?
Examine your life honestly without lying to yourself.
- Are you able to stop your robotic, repetitive life patterns if you want to?
- Can you stop seeking pleasure and avoiding pain?
- Are you addicted to certain foods,activities or pastimes?
- Are you constantly judging, blaming, criticizing yourself and others?
- Does your mind incessantly seek out stimulus?
- Do you react to how people think about you?
- Are you seeking approval and positive reinforcement?
- Do you somehow sabotage situations in your life?
When you begin to observe your robot -like nature, you become more awake. And recognize the depth of the problem. You are completely and utterly asleep, lost in a dream.
You are attached to your familiar patterns.
The first step to the matrix is to realize that we are identified to the matrix of the human mind or the mask. The matrix of the mind distract us, entertain us, keeps us endlessly doing, consuming, grasping in a cycle of craving and aversion with constantly changing forms.
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References:
Samadhi: Maya, the Illusion of the Self.