Reminding myself of freedom. A Digital Diary.

All your problems are in the mind. What happens if you experiment and start watching your mind? This is how you create a gap between the watcher, you and the ongoing thoughts. The problems are in the form of thoughts. Everything in the world, even your personal limited existence is a thought. Be still and know yourself.
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As you see your oneness with the body, see oneness with the universe.
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You can give up your body gracefully when you know everything you see is just you.
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If you are hating something right now, know that it's happening in your mind. Every feeling, every thought is in your mind. Turn within. Awaken.
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You don't need words to experience reality. In fact, words are a barrier.
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Without the meaning-making of the mind, can you exist? If you can, you'll know you are free.
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Language is an interesting thing because whatever we call our experience it becomes that way. We give our experiences a name. Without the name, can there be our experience? A meditator would say no. Because he knows language shapes our experiences, quite literally. Without a word for an experience, that experience doesn't even exist for you. For a spiritual seeker, this insight is a 💎 Since he can realise that only if he removes the words, all stories and experiences are gone. There's nothing left. So there's nothing there to seek. He has found the silence deep within. And all this was so easy. 😂 That's why they say it's all about unlearning and being empty.
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Words are just sounds that you are giving imaginary meaning to. No word means anything. No thought means anything. There's no point A to point B. In words, there can exist a two. In reality, in silence I AM.
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If there were no language in your mind, you won't be seeking anything. There would be no judgement about this moment, how this moment should be. Forget the language. You are already complete.
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Your present experience consists of a story. Ignore the story that the mind is telling you. You know it's here but you are not interested because you know it's not true. Now what's left to know? Only the mind can know, you cannot. You are ever still within, the unmoving silence.
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Powerful - "Experience doesn't need a story."
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When there's no resistance to suffering, there's no suffering. When you don't say 'no' to your pain, there's no pain. Because pain and suffering can stay only in rejection of that feeling. You saying 'no' to something, creates a rejection within. Allow. Accept what is here. Accept your experience fully, wholeheartedly. When you don't deny the pain, death and suffering, those things don't exist for you. It's like it is there but you are not attached. You don't mind their presence. It seems you honour the pain too because that's your present experience. You can't deny it. Its presence is a reality. I guess this is also called surrender. Your denial of the feeling, the suffering was how that feeling was surviving in you. Notice this denial within. Embrace the rejection, allow every part of you to be here. Acceptance heals.
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↓ The tagged message makes me free of all internal struggles, know how. (I remind myself this message very often) If this is truly understood, there will be no problems, no suffering. Because you'll understand that you are only responsible for your actions and thoughts. That means you are not responsible for others' actions or behaviour. As that's not in your control in any way. So there's no possibility of judgement on others. There's no scope of thinking about how others should behave and what they should do. So, you would naturally drop all expectations of what they should do. If there are no such expectations on others, and you only see your own actions, that's how your life will be immensely improved. As you are no longer trying to change others, your own actions will be more conscious. Because you are now looking at yourself and not complaining about others or expecting them to change. You have stopped complaining about others and their actions, what happened in the past or what's happening now. You are not in a victim mindset either. You are in control of yourself. Because you've started looking at yourself, how you can act in the best way possible. Now you'll give your best shot at every action because you've realised your own actions are in your control. You are responsible only for yourself. And not for others. Now you don't want to change others. Even if they act unconsciously, it's not your business. Your only business is to see and be mindful of your own actions, thoughts and internal state. This is how you mentally give up being in others' business and see what you can do to improve the situation. Taking control of yourself is how to bring true change. Otherwise the blame game continues. You'll feel so much relieved on understanding that you cannot control others. You can only mind your own business. You can only decide how you can act. You can never decide that for others. That's out of your control, quite literally. They can benefit from your awareness, but that's not your goal. They can also change if they see you being more conscious, but that's not your concern. You do it for yourself, you become more mindful - everyone else follows. Understanding this is freedom from unnecessary inner conflicts and this is true empowerment.
The Only Healing You Need An excerpt - "I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and Nature's/God’s. (Anything that’s out of my control, your control, and everyone else’s control, I call God’s business.) Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our own business. When I think, “You need to get a job,” “I want you to be happy,” “You should be on time,” “You need to take better care of yourself,” I am in your business. When I’m worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God’s business. If I am mentally in your business or in God’s business, the effect is separation. I noticed this early in 1986. When I mentally went into my mother’s business, for example, with a thought like “My mother should understand me,” I immediately experienced a feeling of loneliness. And I realized that every time in my life I had felt hurt or lonely, I had been in someone else’s business. If you are living your life and I am mentally living your life, who is here living mine? We’re both over there. Being mentally in your business keeps me from being present in my own. I am separate from myself, wondering why my life doesn’t work. To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business." ~ Byron Katie (Quoted from - Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life) Whenever in pain, ask yourself are you in someone's business or your own? Whenever I expect people should act in a certain way, I'm out of my business. My business is only and only to see what's my business. It might be whether I am mindful, or more aware and this makes me present in my business. How I behave is my business, how they behave is theirs. Simple. I've nothing to do with their business. I'm only concerned about mine. This is distinction is crucial. Because all suffering happens when I'm trying to judge or control others, when I'm expecting them to do something that I think is right in some way. When truly contemplated, this simple questioning heals a lot of deep pain and suffering in life. So right now, whose business are you in?
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Don't react to the mind. Let it create anything it wants - craving, judgement or reaction. In this realise, you have nothing to do with the mind, now you are not in bondage.
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If you are willing to look, you'll find God inside you. And they say men are weak? God is sitting inside, the key is meditation and awareness. Shun the experience of the senses. See for yourself.
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There are mental formations in you, don't overlook it. Something the mind is telling you at this moment, that's the voice in the head. Once you become aware of the voice within you - you know you are more than the voice. You are not it. Now it can say anything spiritual or whatever, it doesn't bother you, because you have become conscious of running commentary of words within you. That's the recognition of mind and the end of it.
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Only if you believe thoughts - there can exist a world.
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Be rooted in silence, not in words.
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Every thought seems true. Realise it's only a thought. No matter how true it seems, it's only a thought. What thought tells us is not happening in this moment, so what value it holds? We don't have to believe thoughts. Let them come, notice they are here. Note what they tell you. Let them go as they wish. They are anyway talking about something imaginary, something that is not real right now in this moment. I have no compulsion to believe my thoughts. That's why I'm free.
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Your only enemy can be your own mind and only when you are not aware of its content. If the mind says something and you believe it instantly, that's a reaction. However, if you slow down, take a breath, and watch what it is telling you - that thought will not touch you as before. Now this is not a reaction. It becomes a conscious act. Once you are this much aware of the mind, that's the end of suffering. Slowing down and watching what the mind is commenting in the present helps a lot. What is it saying right now? That's it. Listen to it silently. Soon enough, there's an awareness around the thoughts. That makes you conscious of thoughts. You know what the mind says and you know how to ignore a thought. Thoughts cannot determine anything now. It doesn't decide how you feel inside. In being conscious like this, there's peace, there's freedom.
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If one watches the mind vigilantly, there's no possibility of getting trapped in what it is telling you. See what it says at this moment. Watch it, note it, and ignore it. Let it pass like clouds. Once I watch the voice in the head, I am no longer touched by it.
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