The Art Of Denial

We cleverly ignore our true reality in favour of phantoms of beliefs in our mind that we assume make us special. That is the confidence trick of thinking that we are ‘in the know’, but we aren’t totally convinced as we feel vulnerable and defensive because there is more to us. We are in conflict with our natural state of pure consciousness by wanting to project an image to others – who are doing the same thing. Who are we trying to impress?

The moment we recognise this play acting, we are released from further performances. We may feel lost and don’t know what to do, as we are so used to doing ‘something’. True, we end up in no-man’s land, but that is just our original state of empty cognisance.

It’s a moment of feeling disillusioned – a fine state to be in. When we become familiar with this state of being, everything is a fresh moment … there no need to take a holiday or find something more interesting to do. 😀

Denial: refusal to acknowledge or admit an unacceptable truth or emotion: used as a defence mechanism.

The first noble truth to enlightenment
is the acknowledgement of suffering.

Denial, when recognised,
is the inner conflict of awakening.