The Illusion is your self-defense system that protects your definition of who you 'think' you are and your 'Story' (the story of your past, the story of your future, your fears, frustration, desires). There is a battle within you that is ongoing: It is the battle of the Real Self vs the Illusion (some falsely call this the 'ego', when it's actually the ego's illusion). We must come to the understanding that the Illusion just wants to protect our 'Story", that it just wants us to be happy according to its definition of happiness. Let's break this down further. When we are angry, we are at our happiest choosing to be angry. When we are jealous of others, we are at our happiest choosing to be jealous. When we are afraid, we are at our happiest being afraid. This is why there thoughts and emotions are neither 'good for the I' nor 'bad for the I'. How are all thoughts and emotions neither 'bad for the I' nor 'good for the I'? Take a situation where someone offends you: you could judge an angry emotion as good and then a happy emotion as bad in that situation. The belief in what's a 'good for the I' thought/emotion and 'bad for the I' thought/emotion become blurred, to reveal that there is only GOOD. This is the reality that we must come to terms with: we are at our happiest choosing thoughts and emotions and beliefs at any particular moment.
Now again the Illusion just wants us to be happy. So does the Real Self, which is a given. This is where we unite the real Self with the Illusion. That is the bridge for friendship.
The Illusion has its own definition of happiness. So we are happy being angry, we are happy being depressed, we are happy self-sabotaging our selves, etc. So if the Illusion has its own definition of what makes you happy, then it should NOT BE TREATED AS AN ENEMY, therefore you should not fear it. 'See' this truth.
Peace can be found when the 2 -- the Illusion and the Real Self -- are reconciled towards the same goal, which is Happiness. Herein is where Choice comes in, in which you have full control over choosing an emotion, thought, and belief at any particular moment, knowing that all of them is NOT WHO YOU ARE but simply just an emotion, just a thought, and just a belief. Your 'Story' is also not who you are but just a story. If I am not my arm, I am not my leg, I am not my heart, then I also am not my thinking mind, nor my thoughts, nor emotions, nor beliefs, nor story. You choose the thought, you choose the emotion, and you choose the belief (and NOT that the thought tells who you are and what to think, not the emotion tells you how you feel and therefore who you are, not the belief forces you what to believe and therefore is who you are -- you are handcuffed to the Illusion). Who you are is right here and right now, the Being. When we believe we are the Illusion, we are controlled by the Illusion -- and the illusion that we have no choice. We have no control when we have no choice: now I AM angry, I AM depressed, I AM what my thoughts are telling me, I AM always something else at any particular moment. How can you be identified as any of those when you are a Being. We are no longer controlled when we can clearly see that we are a Being and actually have a Choice, and therefore control, and therefore peacefully choosing a thought or an emotion (be it happy or angry, emotions are not bad but only bad when we connect them and believe it is who we are; emotions are just emotions) or peacefully knowing. We have infinite choices to choose from, which is different from the Illusion which has infinite ways to make you believe in your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs it projects to you. Choice gives us consequences. We can choose the Illusion or choose the Real Self/Truth.
Because we are happy making choices -- however your definition of happiness may be -- this means we can be happy 100% of the time.
What is your choice?
What is your choice?
Neo: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
In The Matrix Neo has a choice between the Red Pill (the Real Self/Reality) or the Blue Pill (the Matrix/the Illusion of the Self)
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