How To Feel Good About Our Self

How to feel good about our self: laugh at everything it does.
Be grateful that we see this.
It is the culmination of all our karmic mistakes.
It is our path to enlightenment, just like a Buddha.

What we call ‘myself’, ‘I’, ‘me’ is merely consciousness’s identification with collective ideas. We have been socialised, and made to behave in a way that is acceptable to a society – the rules of the playground.

Everyone in the playground follows karmic social/cultural rules, plus their own personal karmic rules. We all play a part-act in society; it’s how we get by, with a social I. Our distracting likes and dislikes are our guide to realising enlightenment.

If we are social climbing, we are fools to nowhere.

Our self has absolutely no reality. It is a ghost in the mind that we have to exorcise – a supposedly evil spirit to get rid of :-). The mind is evil both when it’s negative and, strangely, when it’s positive. If we think we have good karma – we’re doing well, know-it-alls – this lays the way for arrogance, and the return of negative karma and hell. The richer we are, the more entitled we feel.

Only in the precise moment now is there no karma. When our habitual reactions set in, karma is re-established, and this is the reason why we are predictable, and go round in circles.

Tony isn’t well educated. His self is lacking in social ways but internally, consciousness is quite different, and just like everyone else. When this is realised, a meeting of minds is possible – and, on rarer occasions, a meeting of consciousnesses is possible too.

When we feel good about being the way we are,
true confidence arises,
together with empathetic compassion.