Soumya

Living freedom.

[Soumya @ecstatic_0]

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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My only responsibility is to look after my own happiness and joy.

That is possible through mindfulness and positivity.

And this is possible through looking after my own business, as Byron Katie suggests.

Once I stop thinking how I can change others, I turn within and look after my own feelings.

No matter what, I cannot change others so why bother about thinking about the world?

Why bother what they are thinking about me? It's none of my business. Their thoughts, their world.

My own mind is the only thing that is under my control in the entire creation.

And what can really be changed is my inner state, my disposition, it can be made more peaceful, joyful, and loving.

So making it and living it right now!

That's it, that's the secret to happiness - a conscious choice to look within.

There's nothing to seek because I've stopped looking outward for my happiness.

I've stopped expecting the world to be different. People to change, any way however they are that's none of my business.

It's not my work to control the world and change it.

As I've started looking at my own inner conditions, dispositions, realised that my inner states are independent of the world I live in.

That means I can be unconditionally happy. Knowing this and having this choice is freedom.

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Being joyful is a choice we can always choose to have.

If you know there's a choice to be joyful, would you not choose joy for yourself?

So you have a choice at this moment, what do you choose?

See within yourself - what do you long for the most?

Really see within yourself, listen to your heart.

What you do really want?

Isn't it your joy? Your own happiness?

So why not cultivate a grateful relationship with everything you see and have. It's going to make your life really sweet and pleasant.

This is how you live consciously - when you realise your inner states are in your control and you can have whatever you want to have within.

You can create genuine thankfulness within yourself at this very moment!

This is your power, divine power.

You can have pleasant feelings by your own choice. This ability you carry quite naturally within yourself.

That means, you can change your inner state at any time, and even now!

Even though we know life is temporary and transient, we can enjoy it with our kindest intention and fullest hearts for the time it lasts.

Joy is just a matter of personal choice.

It doesn't matter how others are feeling, if you are feeling great, you can make others feel great too, just by the virtue of being awake to joy.

Choose what's good for you now, now and now. Say thanks with your heart to the universe - for everything, everything!

That's living with supreme wisdom and in everlasting God's grace!

You have this capability, remember that and live it. 🌷

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All causes of misery begins with influence of society.

That's why Buddha said "Believe nothing."

When we believe others, especially social knowledge, we suffer. With that knowledge, we survive in a society but with it comes with its own immense suffering.

Because we start playing a role of the identity given to us. The role of being somebody.

We assume we are this body and we have to survive because we are a human. Being human is another identity btw. This was taught in very early years so this is deeply ingrained.

If we remove all social influence and its knowledge, you would know perfectly how to be within yourself, you would be perfectly free.

You can still remember survival skills but society's knowledge is not just that. It comes with huge baggage of expectations.

It wants you to have a particular status, a large amount of money, and these standards are not normal to achieve, they are unrealistic.

It basically wants you to play a particular role of a mother, father, spouse, profession. It won't leave you alone until you take the first step and see all social knowledge is not needed. That means, you can deny what society says and still be happy and free.

That's the only way to freedom, in fact. Believing nothing, just being as you are. Your intelligence will be untouched by social norms and restrictions. This is the way to true freedom.

There will be no "should's" in your mind. All social expectations are bondages of some kind.

You don't have adhere to that, you can survive but it's not necessary to think that the role I'm playing is me. It's a role, an identity of being a person for a short time.

And because you live in society, you have to play this role of being your name and profession. Once you see it's not you, it's social knowledge and conditioning, that's freedom.

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Petty material accomplishments can't waver the mind, build such a mind.

Worldly sorrows can't move the mind, build such a mind.

This is a mind that is aligned to reality because it's giving you a holistic perspective as it includes the fact of death.

Only attachment to the temporary can make you suffer.

If you already know it's all temporary and going to end, you'll live sensibly and enjoy every moment profoundly.

Because you'll know it's a short life, you don't have eternity.

Hold life lightly, it's not yours to own.

Why life is not our own? Because we have no control over when it started and we don't know when it will end.

The way you trusted Higher Power/Universe/God in the beginning of life as a kid, trust God during the life too.

Remember your innate trust, forget social knowledge.

That's freedom.

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When we hold life and death lightly, we are free of delusional thinking.

I'm just a piece of life, not someone who craves for fulfilling every desire.

Desires are the trap of identity, being something.

Not anything, how can you desire?

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Stop comparing yourself with others on social media.

Think a bit long term, they'll also end up where you will be.

Every human is meant to be dissolved back to earth, why so much fuss about a brief life?

I find freedom in realising - what we are so much concerned about is going to end inevitably. There's no choice in that.

So there's no point in complaining or finding faults, enjoy this movie until it lasts. We never know who is gone. Just poof. Me or you. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Take it all lightly! 🌸

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Self love is such a great blessing.

Cultivating self love consciously is the key to enjoying heaven on earth.

My experience becomes the most divine when I'm loving and accepting myself fully.

When I'm in love with me and my life, I'm truly alive!

[Soumya @ecstatic_0]

@Duckonquacck94 ☺️🙏🪷

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The goal is not to stop the mind.

The way out of the mind is noticing what it says in the present moment.

As you see the words it creates, what memory it brings up in the present, you also see these words are not you.

These memories are not you, they are being played automatically in your awareness.

Those are just some thoughts, words, memories that belong to the past.

What's here is my being, beingness.

I am.

Now, thoughts can come but I know I am not a thought, I am not the mind.

Mind can be here. But it exists as a separate entity which I am aware of.

This is freedom.

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The clarity of seeing I am not a thought is liberation.

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@Tabassoem Beautiful

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Past and future are not happening in this moment. They are happening in your mind.

What's really here is you - awareness - of the mind.

Mind that says "it should not have happened that way," you are aware of this mind.

You know it's here. You are awake to the words it produces in this moment.

It is saying something of the past. Not of the present.

It is disturbing your peace of the present.

As you see this, as you see those words are a thought, a memory not REALLY happening in this moment, you are free.

After all, you can only remember a thought. You can replay that in your mind.

But that doesn't mean it's happening right now. It's only happening in your mind as memory.

Thoughts come up in this moment, what they say is of the past.

You don't have to do anything with thoughts. Notice a thought as a thought. That's it.

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@BruceApple Hehe yes ! 😂🥰

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Mind's work is to create resistance to the world. Your only work is to ignore this mind.

How you ignore is by knowing the mind is not me. Mind is here and I am separate from it.

I can watch the mind. The moment I see this, I know I am not my thinking, my mind.

I am free.

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No action can bring you back home.

Action is the domain of the mind.

Mind acts. Mind moves. You don't.

Look at the mind moving, creating thoughts.

You are not this mind. You are awake to it.

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Do nothing and you'll realise you are home.

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We can only suffer in the realm of thoughts.

That doesn't mean we have to become no-thought.

Don't resist thoughts. Don't do anything with the mind.

Let it be.