Our Environment

People react to the environment – that which surrounds us.
The mind is our first environment.

If our environment is contaminated with concepts which obscure our direct awareness, this affects our entire life. When obscurations create stress, it is we who contaminate the environment for others, in a chain reaction.

How do we clean up our environment? We empty out the pointless junk. First, we have to see that we have junk in our mind, causing stress, seriousness, and attachments. This is done through meditation, of just being aware of awareness. Meditation is the broom that clears the path so that we can see with clarity.

There are some who expect more out of meditation; they want to acquire exotic junk, not realising that their environment will become even more heavily contaminated.

Life is beautifully simple. Through wisdom, desire becomes clarity, aversion becomes impartiality, and indifference becomes empathic understanding.

Our original nature is already clarity, impartiality and empathic understanding, but we became lost in a confused self-identity. So we are conditioned to continuously be governed by our likes and dislikes

A good environment is a clear atmosphere
of an open mind and pure consciousness.