You cannot solve your suffering by rearranging the circumstances on the surface of your life. You cannot solve your suffering by playing the game of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. This is because the root of your suffering is ignorance buried deep below. You must address the root cause of your suffering to be free, and the root cause of your suffering is ignorance. Much of this ignorance is the result of religious conditioning. You learned to see yourself, God, others and life in way that is not true or real. This is the ignorance I am referring to. This ignorance is an insidious and volatile mental factor incessantly at work inserting itself into every compartment of your inner life. It distorts cognition, dominates volition, and determines the entire tone of your existence. Ignorance infiltrates our perceptions, thoughts, and views, so that we come to misconstrue our experience, overlaying it with multiple strata of delusions. The remedy to ignorance is wisdom. Whereas ignorance obscures the true nature of things, wisdom removes the veils of distortion, enabling us to see ourselves and all things with the vivacity of direct perception. Normally we are immersed in our experience, identified with it so completely that we do not comprehend it. We live it but fail to understand its true. nature. Wisdom opens our eyes to see all things as they are, and this is freedom. Jesus said if the eyes are good, the whole body is good. In other words, the only true obstacle you have is not seeing things as they really are. Once you see clearly and accurately, you are free. Once you see things as they really are, you carry this wisdom into all of life. This wisdom is your new lens. You live mindfully of this wisdom along the everyday paths of life. You are at peace, and free. ~ Jim Palmer
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:49:09 +0000
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