Dear Reader:

Disengage from the-beast-that-never-sleeps, i.e., the egoic-thinking  part of the brain aka Ego. It thinks I/me as an independent, separate entity; it thinks me-vs-them. It thinks rigidly, conventionally, subject to judgments. If a highly intelligent and highly formally-educated person’s thinking is egoic, it is still rigid, conventional  and judgmental, leading to discontent, misery and sickness.

Switch to Beginner’s Mind, No Mind, a state of awakening, if only for a moment.

An example of conventional, rigid, judgmental egoic-mind thinking is: do people like me, why don’t they like me, am I less than others, I don’t like this person, who does he thinks he is? etc.

Very different from Ego (I), Soul is one-heart-beating-in-all,  a We/us. We humans are the same person, really. We are no less and no more than… we. When I harm another person, I harm myself. When another person harms me, they harm themselves. Of course, individuals should be held responsible for their individual actions and society should be protected from those who do such harm as rape and murder, and yet, looking at the big picture: when we harm others, we harm ourselves because in the big picture, we are the same person.

To increase one’s self-esteem, one has to esteem all people, regardless of different appearances (age, education, finances, gender, height, nationality, race, weight, etc.).

-more later.

anita