“(A phenomenon of) numerous traps (which can happen in the manifestation of infinite possibilities) “

The mind loves stories.

“Poor ‘me’ (the tragic hero),” “‘me’ who boldly stands up against injustice (the hero who vanquishes evil),” “‘me’ who has realized the truth (the evangelist who spreads the truth to all),” and so on.

And it goes beyond simply loving them; the mind (ego) becomes addicted to and attached to these stories, using such stories as keeping resisting what is, including the impermanence of phenomena and the truth that what the mind (ego) sees and senses is not fact.

This phenomenon is equally evident in those who are just beginning to awaken.

For example, even if once someone has experienced “transcending duality” or “the awareness becoming aware of the awareness itself,” sometimes, not a small number of them desparately begin to strive to change the world, as if this were the complete achievement of enlightenment and they have already finished to burn away all of the mind (ego), including all its remaining dregs.

However, in reality, that is the remaining dregs of the mind (ego) that still remain merely are claiming, “It was ‘I’ who had that experience, and that experience is ‘mine,’” as if they had upgradely become someone through the mystical experience, and the personal “I” still remains intoxicated by such the story, just as before.

Furthermore, many minds (egos) that do not want to accept what is interpret the words of sages to fit their own ideals, and use these interpreted words as their correctness, as if it’s approval of the sage, and use them as a basis for pursuing their ideals.

Many of these sometimes manifest themselves as hasty change, or forceful reaction that pursues only the ideals that the mind (ego) conceives of.

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In addition to these, the mind (ego) in this state can sometimes exhibit charisma, drawing many people to it, while further obscuring facts and truth through clever deception and disguise to sustain itself unconsciously.

The mind (ego) in particular loves stories of “good,” “overcoming,” or “improving,” etc. in the duality. Therefore, recipients who are not accustomed to being in the innermost stillness—i.e., those who are still ignorant of The Self directly and lack true vision—are quick to become intoxicated by such charisma or the beautiful stories told by such people, because their ideals the mind (ego) dreams of are easily stimulated by such stories.

Such phenomena, in turn, are perceived by the speaker too as affirming the mind’s (ego’s) reactions and the stories (illusions), further strengthening, unconsciously, the identification with the mind (ego) and a sense of ownership of experience.

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However, it would be deliberately note here that this is not to say that these phenomena are a problem at all.

In fact, they are not a problem at all. These phenomena are simply one of events which are percieved by the mind (ego) that could happen in the manifestation of infinite possibilities, before the awareness awaken and become aware of itself as The Self.

Like all other phenomena, these are merely phenomena (illusions) that represent impermanence.

Everything appears to the mind (ego) as if it were meant to happen, and although what should be received appears to be certainly being received in interconnected way (as recognized by those who need it), this is merely one of many stories in a world of illusion, told and loved by the mind (ego) wanting to become someone, rather than by facts or truth, and are, in reality, an illusion that is just used by the mind (ego) to avoid the truth unconsciously due to unconscious fear.

In fact, all phenomena are merely reflections (a mirror) of the world (illusion) as perceived by the mind (ego) that thinks it exists as the separate self “I,” as if it were reality. (OM 🙏)