Page 33 - Pearls of Perception (eBook)

Keep pushing on through the thick walls of mental clutter, or re-
nounce all efforts of making it through.

Who said you need to make it through?

And more importantly, how did you manage to get yourself in all this
trouble in the first place?

The answer to that is simple: by listening to your endlessly-
dissatisfied mind.

You see, there is no problem outside your mind. Nothing is funda-
mentally wrong with anything. The only thing that makes it wrong (or
at least appears to make it so) is your idea about it. The only place in
which something can be wrong is in your mind. In reality, everything
is more than ok, all the time. Of course, there is death and there is
suffering and there is pain. I’m not saying that there isn’t or that
there shouldn’t be. But these are actual facts of life. And just like all
of life, these too are neutral. Without someone to call them right or
wrong, things just are. Rain just is. Sunlight just is. Storms just are.

You are the one who dictates your experience moment by moment,
day by day. Not by creating judgment (that happens automatically
when the mind gets too much attention), but by allowing it to cloud
your perception. Like that, what is originally pure, untouched, inno-
cent, turns into a confusing blend of thoughts, feelings, and emo-
tions. Your life turns from a wonderful and effortless flowing to an
exhausting struggle of wanting to get to “a better place”, to “happi-
ness”, or to be “stress-free”. As if you’re constantly waiting for some-
thing other than what is already here. This takes many forms for
many people. For some, it’s when they get to retire, for others, it’s