Focused Energy

A person’s focused energy determines how existence manifest. If it’s constantly directed towards self you will be self-ish. If you possess the whole world, but aren’t liberated from your-self, you’ll remain in captivity…

For me the key to being liberated from the captivity of self is focusing my energy away from greed and lustful thoughts. When the mind gets stuck in these thoughts to be liberated it needs to become unstuck. What makes it get stuck is energy mostly focused on satisfying self in some way. Pay attention to the sensations of the body, mind, and mental formations. This is a direct path to how to become liberated from suffering.

Liberation from suffering is not pain free, it’s learning to be with the pain that arises. You cannot hide from what’s happening, you can only focus your attention away from it. To no longer have your energy engaged in satisfying the self is where the path of liberation leads to. How this is done is by stopping the focused energy of self and directing it towards what will liberate you from it. The self is there and it has been given a name, it has so many other different labels attached to it, but all create bondage because of the mere fact of the attachment it has to itself. Liberation is in understanding the lies of self, it isn’t in creating a concept or belief in something.

You can only be free when focusing on what allows freedom, but it’s tricky because of the mastery of the self. Constant vigilance is needed for the liberation from self. You’re alive so you exist, but it will be your focused energy that determines the extent of the liberation you have from self and that will be the determining factor in how your existence manifests…