What Can We Trust?

To answer this, we have to come out of our confinement, just as the Buddha did 2,500 years ago.

We can read about confinement as being imprisoned by a mental concept of ourselves – an “I” – but we actually have to see this in action; or rather, pure awareness has to see this in action. It’s not a pretty sight! It’s this “I”-fixation that is the cause of suffering.

We have to do exactly what the Buddha did, and retrace his steps of recognition. This is based on awareness and reasoning, not a belief. The Buddha’s teachings describe our pure Buddha nature, and that which obscures it – the script that we wrote, about our “I”.

The script we receive in life
is one that we wrote:
the play must go on
until it is completed,
without adding more lines,
thereby extending the play.

Trust in pure awareness:
Our true nature.

This brings us the interesting question of discussing (or arguing) with others. Something is said, and we can respond…or not. I had an argument/discussion with my wife this morning: the choice was to let it go, or play it out. We played it out, and it got passionate. We were actually agreeing in essence, but the levels of intensity we felt were different. Having played itself out, the air cleared.

The real problem lies in expressing the lines we wrote on the subject, and conveying that to another. We may still see things slightly differently, but by playing it out, we were allowed to complete the ‘act’! 🙂 😉

We have to trust the awareness of our own confusion,
thereby realising that there is no confusion
because there is awareness!