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“FACTS VERSUS INTERPRETATIONS.”

Interpretations are, for example:

Person A is a horrible person. Person A harasses me terribly and others say so as well.

I lost my accommodation money during the traveling. This must mean that I should stop traveling. This travel is cursed.

Person B is egotistical and arrogant. Person B sees me as worthless. That’s why Person B makes fun of me.

On the other hand, the facts are, for example:

To me (mind, ego), Person A’s words and actions seem like nothing but malicious behavior. Moreover, it makes me feel extremely miserable.

I lost my accommodation money during the traveling.

Listening to Person B’s story, I somehow start to feel worthless, and I feel frustrated and angry at Person B.

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Many people treat their interpretations as facts, creating their own dramas in that way, and become immersed in such stories, without even realizing it.

In this way, we appeal to people about story as victim in various ways, asking for understanding, and when we are understood, we act as if it is natural, and when we are not understood, we become irritated and blame the people and the world, saying “Why?!”

The more we get caught up in such emotional dramas, which we ourselves have created, the more we forget that if we just stop and quietly look at the whole picture squarely, we can see the facts as they really are, including how we are distorting things.

What we are actually doing then is, in the end, a reproduction of the past, and it is nothing more than a fruitless attempt, clinging unconsciously to the illusion that if we can somehow draw a different result this time, we can rewrite the past this time for sure.

These attempts, while sometimes seemingly successful, almost always end in failure, yet we are hardly able to accept this fact.

This is how the suffering continues.

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We all need to always look at the facts squarely and ask ourselves while turning a deaf ear to any voice, which is only suitable and pleasant to the mind (ego), “What are the facts here and now?”

Only then will it become clear for us what we really need to do now.

It is never about asking people to behave in a way that you expect them to, nor is it about denying the facts.

But, calmly observe the facts just the way it is.

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Then, something curious will begin to happen.

Things will naturally settle into where they should be, and problems will disappear.

In this way, a world deeply connected to the truth works in a paradoxical way to the world of the mind (ego).

It flows, like a stagnant river that begins to flow, most spontaneously when there is no deliberate effort by the mind (ego) and also the full acknowledgment and acceptance (renunciation of unconscious resistance) of the facts as they are. (OM 🙏)

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