Selling our Souls for Cookies

We sold our souls for cookies lifetimes ago, by forgetting who we are. (In this context soul is just a euphemism for our essential nature.)

We take our concepts as being real, and because of that we lose sight of reality – that which observes these concepts. Although there is no observer as such, just mere observation, or pure perception.

There are those who believe that they are the accumulation of all their concepts, so the more they have, the prouder they are…“See how many cookies I have!” and so, they are stuck with ‘their’ cookies…a personality.

Maybe this is the difference between modern psychology and Buddhist psychology.

Buddhist psychology says: perception sees cookies…this stimulus goes to our memory bank for recognition…then to our judgement centre for valuing…and then we react. This seems to happen instantaneously, and we are stuck in our sentient loop of life. We do the same things, and say the same things, and when we know someone, we can know most of their responses…before they do. (how the corporations like that!)

However, if we take a step back to be aware of what is going on in the mind, we become aware of the awareness itself. Our true nature. Corporations cannot touch that, but they can distract it, and that application of distraction is the touch of evil, as we are talking about the most precious aspect of human existence.

We can see things from a different perspective, if, instead of merely reacting as programmed by our ‘society’ we choose not to react. We become more spacious. This means we don’t have to be stuck in a fixed personality…a caricature…a type! Most sentient beings sold their souls for cookies incarnations ago…or, to me more precise, forgot all about it because of being attracted to cookies.

We can break out of nature and nurture. We may look and sound the same, but we are different…ask the wife 😉