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“THERE IS NOTHING TO PROTECT.”

The mind (ego, thought) tries to protect illusions that it has merely imagined to “exist.”

This is because it believes that if it is not protected, it will be hurt, humiliated, and its value diminished.

It begins with some kind of unpleasant sensation, and based on a fundamental misperception of the existence of a “separated ‘self’,” this discomfort is interpreted, named, and when it is attributed its cause to external source, it results in a desire to avoid the “fear” generated by the associated narrative in the head and an attachment to the illusion that “reality is controllable.”

However, this is merely a reflexive psychological defense mechanism by the influence of misperceptions and unconscious projections.

Nevertheless, in a society where the misperception of a separated “self” is widely accepted, this often leads to the justification of exclusion movements, rejecting what is perceived as the cause.

Thus, the mind (ego, thoughts), which engages in repeated thinking, easily falls into a pattern of rushing headlong towards a “rightness” that seems to offer false sense of security and safety, especially when the fear and vague anxiety generated by “separation” are strong.

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According to one study, the most harmful thing to a person mentally is “loneliness.”

“Loneliness” signifies the denial and rejection of one’s psychological existence.

In other words, it is the psychological “death” of existence.

Like physical “death,” it is what most terrifies the separated “self,” and therefore, a reflexive reaction (unconscious conformity) to avoid it is more likely to occur.

Furthermore, when cornered and reaching a dead end, people even often choose to end their own lives.

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However, when the awareness sees through the facts of what is—for example, assumptions, misperceptions, and identifications (the confusion of thought and the awareness)—through the clarity of the innermost stillness, the illusions that are seen through are dismantled.

In fact, whatever the mind (ego, thought) tries to protect—for example, rightness, justice, dignity, honor, love, or faith—actually, nothing exists without that thought in reality, which means no other than in the mind.

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Truth, enlightenment, or true insight never provide anything that satisfies the mind (ego, thought).

For example, negative emotions and thoughts do not disappear, nor do actions (all experiences that allow awareness to objectively witness the facts) cease, nor does it give one to excuse any responsibility.

But it certainly dismantles the attachment to something or someone, or identification with the false “self,” the mind (ego, thought), and inevitably liberates the awareness from its unconscious attachment and identification (the belief/illusion that there is something to protect).

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It is about pure observation, not thinking, trying to understand, or judging.

Ultimately, it is about realizing that the awareness is The Self itself, in response to the question, “What is it that is seeing all these things?”

But never try to come up the answer or fill in the gaps with secondhand knowledge.

Also, instead of trying to escape anxiety and fear by believing in someone or something, see through that it is merely the mind (ego, thought) that fears the unknown through the clarity of the innermost stillness.

And trust in the entire process of life for the awareness to realize the truth through each experience the awareness witnesses in life.

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Truth, the Self, or unconditional love (is transcendental, not what is commonly called a mother’s selfless love for child, or love towards a specific person, in reality they are nothing more than attachment born of fear, often used as a means of control in the name of love) are all actually the same ONE and cannot be diminished by anything.

It is always complete and openness itself.

And that is precisely the impersonal consciousness (essence) that is always unchanging, ever-present, yet without form or center. (OM 🙏)