Mind Control – Inflicting Fear and Inflicting Pleasure

It’s interesting that two books from the past – George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” warn us of mind control through inflicting fear and inflicting pleasure.*

Funnily enough, someone else from the past warned us of these two mind control mechanisms 2500 years ago…

The Buddha!
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There are, in fact, three aspects that create veils in our minds – Desire, Fear and Ignorance. Just look at the world today: parts of the globe are controlled by wars and heavy handed authorities, and other parts are obsessed with their pleasures. It is because demonic forces know about these poisons in our mind that they can be used against us. Like attracts like.

And what of ignorance? While we are so involved with our desires and fears, we become distracted and therefore ignore our true, natural qualities: empty essence, cognisant nature and unconfined compassion.

Mind control is using the Buddha’s teachings against us:

A superficial understanding of the Buddha’s teaching may indicate that we are controlled by the three poisons, and therefore they can be used against us. However, the controllers do not realise (because they are not practitioners) that the Buddha also revealed the antidote and direct realisation that dissolves the three poisons into wisdoms.

These three poisons are a distortion of our three innate wisdoms – pure essence, cognisant nature and unconfined compassion. Our first nature is wisdom, but because we cling to a strong illusory self identity, these wisdoms turned into selfish poisons. The more we enhance our self created identity, the more we enhance our mental illnesses. The more we react, the more we can be controlled!

Buddha has always known
that the only way to address
the illusory impurities
that control the mind
is to recognise our own Buddha nature
beyond desire, fear and ignorance.

*Their books are still available and the films are available on youtube, although of poor quality.