I am very lucky: the questions my students send me have caused me to have a deeper understanding for my own work.
These students are often seeking new insights in their pressing circumstances from me. Lately it is all about making a decision to go or leave, to let go or to fight.
It is a huge responsibility to talk to people who are looking for answers.
If they use the insights I give them and don’t make them their own, they run the risk of making a decision “because” I said so.
One of my students asked “is it a matter of meditating over this decision now?”
This particular student has been a meditator for five years. The particular form of meditation he is doing with some master is to open up his ability to gain insight from All-of-it.
And this seemingly intelligent move, to meditate to gain insight is what I want to talk about today.
If you are a “normal” human being, brought up by parents or caregivers, if you went to school, if you live in a family or any other community, you are conditioned to have a world view that is airtight.
It is the world view that considers society, family, country, a life-partner, important and inevitable.
“This is how it has always been…” it looks, but it is not true. All those “institutions” are against the Original Design.
Ever since those institutions have been in place, human consciousness has not grown.
Consciousness has stayed in the confines of “someone or something else is responsible for how it is…”
Without total personal responsibility for everything that you can be responsible for, consciousness doesn’t go to the next level, consciousness doesn’t grow.