Knowing Our Problem Is Solving Our Problem

We need to defend ourselves against both manipulation and the resulting reaction in our mind that makes the manipulation seem more real. How do we do that? By noting whether anyone is suggesting or demanding that we change our thinking to suit their way of thinking. This includes everyone as we’re all part of a system. 🙂

Real Dharma isn’t about not thinking; it’s about being aware – being conscious of those thoughts and their effect in our mind which causes us to live a sanitised life of groupthink.

Sanitised: make something more palatable by removing elements that are likely to be unacceptable or controversial.

Being in a group, where we use sanitised language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events through euphemism, and abstract words or phrases, doesn’t mean we’re safe and protected. Euphemism is the art of war, when we just follow a narrative – a story of one side or the other. 

It’s not a matter of agreeing;
it’s a matter of seeing.

Life is then never the same again.