The Awakening Power of Awareness
In awareness is seeing directly what is
In awareness is seeing our mind without trying to change it. Here is listening, that in the direct seeing, one can observe whether something is false or true.
Our culture trains us to move fast and to form us into “consumers” and workers to perpetuate the economic system of capitalism and the order of hierarchy. These systems need drama and suffering to exist. They pit us at war within ourselves and with the world at large. Training us to move so fast, makes us conditioned to be asleep and to not see that most of our actions are conditioned responses. It makes us ignorant of knowing that the self we think we are is not who we are. It makes us ignorant of the suffering that our actions create in the world and makes us think that we can solve the same problems with the same thinking that created those problems. As long as we move fast, we shall never see what is.
I wonder what would happen if we stopped moving so fast if we slowed down enough to move through our boredom and burn away fear..
I wonder what would happen if we slowed down in awareness and observed without judgment or condemnation…
I wonder what would happen if we took out the ignorance of our own eyes and observed with nondual clarity?
I wonder if we slowed down enough, would we see that we need very little to be happy, and how capitalism is a toxic brew of escape and hierarchy?
Our culture doesn’t want you to slow down, for then you would see the toxic illusion it portrays.
Slowing down though would mean you would have to look at oneself and the sorrow of one’s conditioning and security.
If we could slow down, we may end up not harming other humans, animals, or ecosystems any longer..
I wonder…
