‘Influencers’ Want Reactions

There are so many issues that are made so obvious,
daring us to react to them
and then condemning us for reacting.

Everything is done for a purpose.
Things do not just happen.
We are encouraged to be outraged
while stifling reasoned thinking.

Influencers seek to intimidate, coerce and entertain*. It’s what evil wants. Evil minds feed off our reactions and emotions, and have no sense of empathy. The earlier in life we are influenced, the longer evil can feed, generation after generation; we think this is normal, and so it becomes contagious.

Evil seeks to destroy the clarity of minds by feeding reactions. If we habitually carry around our reactions and emotions, we become a mobile dining room 🙂 With insight, we react only when there is a need in that present moment.

In the silence of meditation, we are free of reactions.
As we progress, we react less, denying evil its daily diet,
and so it goes for weaker minds, reactive minds, clichéd minds.

Once we realise all what evil is, it simply becomes our teacher and guide on the path to enlightenment. 😀 It’s a silly world, isn’t it?

* Entertain: from French entretenir, based on Latin inter ‘among’ + tenere ‘to hold’. The word  originally meant ‘maintain, continue’, later ‘maintain in a certain condition, treat in a certain way’.