All disturbances arise from within yourself, they arise from internal mind agitations. Without discipline the mind will never settle nor will the agitation of needing to reach for something externally…
The world is in a state of disturbance, but not with each other as you may think, it’s with ourselves. The lack of understanding of your own mind is the cause of all inner agitations; most people haven’t a clue this is the cause of all disturbances. We lash out at people, have road rage, try to change people, constantly seek to alter the way that we feel because we were never taught how to just be with life as it is and accept who we are as we are. There would never be a need to have anything or anyone different if you had the ability to just be with life. If you don’t have contentment with the way things are, what makes me think that if things were different there would be contentment; you would still have inner disturbances that make you reach for things externally.
There’s external reaching because you want to alter how you feel. My mind was always agitated because there wasn’t an understanding of the Conditioned Mind so the agitation wasn’t understood. It didn’t matter what happened, by not having the ability to just be, the mind becomes agitated and disturbances arise. Nothing causes a disturbance unless it’s allowed. If something bothers you and it can be changed by all means change it, but it needs to be looked at why there’s a disturbance to begin with. Even if the thing is changed, without an understanding of your own mind, you will just move on to the next thing which will cause you to become agitated and disturbed once again…
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