It’s Just the Way Things Work Here. READ THIS AGAIN & AGAIN..................

We Need Effort to Find Freedom. PART TWO.

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Jun 18, 2025

Effort to Protect Your Mind.

Please consider these statements to be true.

The MIND of the Great Sage of India is intimately communicated.

Let This Mind Be in YOU That Was in Christ.

Everything is interconnected which is a boon for those who seek it. Nothing is separate. Everything comes together even when everything appears to be different. The blind view of difference harms us again and again and again.

WE KNOW THIS! However, we fall again and again into difference. We fail to see the whole - which is the Mind that knows not only difference but Unity. What does this mean for YOU.

It means that everything, yes, everything influences everything!

Take it to heart.

It’s that very old teaching of the butterfly that flapped its wings in South America that influences everything in North America. BUT we ignore it because we, personally did not feel the breeze. Nevertheless, we were influenced.

Consider the bombs being dropped in the Middle East. We may ignore the news of bombs dropping - it is far away, out of sight, out of mind. Nevertheless, we were influenced.

We must give up picking & choosing which leads to like & dislike, hatred & craving.

To protect the mind & heart we need to give up picking and choosing. To make such a radical change we need to STOP picking and choosing sides and go beyond the material realm.

Even a hairsbreadth difference, a tiny discrimination of thought in the mind sends us off into picking & choosing. This leads to seeing difference as strangers.

It is a common human condition!

Use your effort to protect your mind. Sit still. Make every effort to STOP the picking and choosing.

Caught in picking & choosing causes indecision which makes us sick.

There are continuous dangers here. It’s the way it is. Danger is like everything else, it works just the same. Danger is periodic and continuous. There is no escape. You may find you tried ducking under or ducking out but with no permanent advantage.

We must go beyond picking and choosing.

Eventually the hardships of this place find you even if you are hiding.

There are body hazards, dangerous feelings, risky impulses, perilous moods and confused perceptions and views. The world offers no safe haven from these treacheries. Your body and mind are vulnerable.

You need effort to protect your body and mind.

Protection, like everything else, is periodic and requires continuous effort. In a rainstorm there are eaves under which you may stay temporarily dry but you must make the effort to find them. An eave, although small, is a small shelter for the body. It does not always rain, but when it does you need effort to stay dry.

Feelings, impulses, moods, perceptions and views all need protection. If you do not spend your effort to protect the mind from these dangers, you lose sight of what is going on here.

You are able to see “the way it is” when you protect the mind from the agitation of feelings, impulses, moods and views. You need to give the mind something to pacify these boiling threats that can blind your ability to see. It requires your effort to pacify these threats. Any feeling, impulse, mood or view, whether it is good or bad, churns the mind’s eye and clouds your vision.

It’s just the way it is.

Your effort can be engaged to protect the mind’s clear-eyed vision by relying on “the way it is.” There is nothing to do and nothing to add.

To see this way you’ll need effort that can withstand the thoughts, feelings, ideas, impulses, moods and feelings that arise against this vision without picking and choosing!

MORE TO FOLLOW.