Breaking Free

of a System of Suffering

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We are in a system

where we are conditioned

to buy into its creed

its definitions

its labels

defining us

through conditioning

into the roles we play

making us belief

that the system we live in

is normal and

simply our humanity

making us believe

in capitalism as if it is a good thing

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yet

the system has deceived you and i

it is a system

that grows and grows and grows like cancer

a system that buys deception

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an economic system

toxic and hierarchical

based in fear and separation

a mirror of its creators

a system meant to delude us

to condition us

unbeknownst to us

subtly

taking us into

its promises of wealth and success

its delusion

that there are good and bad people

telling us to buy, buy, buy

telling us that you can

climb higher and higher

the economic ladder

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to find the ultimate pleasures and achievements

blinding us so

that we don’t see there is no truth

of any of its beguiling jewels

that no matter how high one gets

one is still isolated and suffering

and in that

all the drama ensues

look around

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see that with money and power

You can buy violence and war

you can buy destruction

you can buy despair

you can buy depression

you can buy suffering

you can buy propaganda

you can buy politicians

you can buy ignorance

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you can buy forests

you can buy hate

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you can buy enslavement

yet,

yet,

yet,

anything worthwhile

you can’t buy

see

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you can’t buy peace

you can’t buy sustainability

you can’t buy freedom

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you can’t buy truth

you can’t buy love

you can’t buy awareness

nor awakening

if you want to be free

free of suffering

free of delusion

and get out of the role you play

stand still for a moment

stop and wonder with me

have you ever asked yourself

who the hell am i

have you ever wondered

do i really want to be free

to be in truth

are you willing to get underneath

to destroy

everything

you are not

to destroy all

beliefs

to destroy the

multitudes of attachments

clinging to this personalized enculturated self

of feeling separate,

find out

rage into your chains,

get out of the cycle of suffering,

get off the cycle of contributing

to the violence of our systemic drama

money doesn’t help one here,

which means that awakening is for anyone

and in this awakening

one will come to see that

power and money

are simply reflections

of insecurity and sorrow,

and that in letting go

you will find the greatest power of all

one that is already within

wholeness

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nothing is holding you back,

but you

and that is also an illusion

for in truth

there is no separate you at all

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only wholeness

flowing in presence