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So what if you have seen the light and really want to share that, but people are simply not interested?

Sounds familiar?

This is one of the frustrating things we encounter while waking up.

No matter how amazing the changes within you have been, no matter how fundamentally clear you’ve become about life and suffering and freedom: you will always have to deal with minds.

Minds have their own agenda, their own outlook, their own set of rules.

Minds think they got it figured out.

They try to fit new things within old frameworks, compare them and then either put them safely away with the other stuff they believe to be true, or simply dismiss them.

Minds are not really interested in stuff that transcends them.

Minds are mostly interested in the mind.

And although the mind can ultimately be of tremendous assistance when it comes to finding liberation, by reflecting on all things that have to do with our true nature, it’s mostly a fierce, powerful and engrossing ‘opponent’.

There are a lot of things that get in the way of conveying what you have experienced.

Many people (or minds) for instance, think they already know everything, and all they do all day long is compare whatever they hear to whatever is in their memory.

‘Oh, so this is like mindfulness.’

This prevents them from seeing new things.

Other people are just afraid to leave the questionable comfort of their neuroses.

And most of us just get tangled up in whatever we’ve learned throughout our lives, and somehow try to make sense of this mental maze.

As a coach I see a painful dilemma playing out time and time again.

Every day I come across people who want to get rid of the suffocating sovereignty of their mind, but retreat hastily at the smallest sign of its disapproval.

We are SO deep in our minds, that every time you get a feel for its nonsense, another sly mental incarnation will arise to form a new bond with your attention.

The mind is simply everywhere, in everything, and we have learned to fully believe that it is who we are.

So even if we start to consider the often really contradicting and unreliable bullshit the mind serves us, we are still somehow captivated in the mind while having an opinion about it.

We experience the world via our mind.

You read and try to comprehend this post using your mind.

So it IS actually very useful and maybe even critical for human beings.

Thinking and concepts can truly help getting to the crucial place where you are finally ready to abandon the purely mental, intellectual world.

But most of the time the mind just gets in the way of our happiness and contentment, while blaming the world.

So what to do with all the hopelessly lost creatures around you?

Well, if they don’t specifically ask for your help, let them be.

Enjoy the hell out of what you’ve discovered, and by doing and living that you will draw out the ones that are close enough to surrender.

In my coaching sessions I have also seen that it’s tremendously helpful to acquire a vast collection of ways to talk about this deeply abstract stuff, and stories and analogies and metaphors seem to work best because they feel kind of safe to most minds.

But the most important thing is, like I just said, to show people the way.

Radiate the good stuff like the divine motherfucker that you are.

There’s nothing more powerful and transforming than the energy of joy, so make a habit out of feeling REALLY good all day long.

It will surpass most minds, and people will feel it and recognize it and learn to enjoy it.

Be the light instead of trying to explain it.

They will want what you have.

 

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