When it’s said one is awake, what’s meant by this can be described as being aware of all the different mental factors that arise in each moment. It’s in this awareness that one sees things as they do. It doesn’t prevent what arises or what happens, but it can lessen the reactions and some of the consequences associated with these; that is if there’s awareness and no attachment. Nothing on its own inherently causes problems for anyone. Alcohol has never poured itself down someone’s throat, it has to be reached for. Heroin never caused anyone to abuse it by putting itself in a needle, it’s the individual alone who reaches for it; this goes for anything. Granted most of this reaching is done as sheep walking, but this is what I shed light on. I know a thing or two about this sheep walking reaching because it controlled me for forty nine years.
So many things controlled me and as long as I was unaware of this, the sheep walking control continued. How this sheep walking gets deeply ingrained is by justifying everything that’s done. From pointing out the faults of others, to being nasty to people, and so many other justified behaviors, all this does is keep the sheep walking mindset in place; awareness this is being done is the first step in breaking the chains of sheep walking. Stop looking out there for answers, stop following, blaming and talking about others, in other words stop justifying everything you do as being right and this just may create the slightest of cracks in the sheep walking armor in place; this crack allows a sliver of awareness to change the way you look at things. After all, if sheep walking is the way one unconsciously looks at things, the onslaught of being unconsciously controlled will remain…
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