Thinking We Have To be Achievers

Achievers in whose eyes?

We grow up thinking that we have to be achievers to impress others who are doing the same thing. 🙂 This creates competitiveness and conflict that binds consciousness to a self-identity. Our unhappiness isn’t all our fault; we just consent to go along with societal ideas.

When we know what we are – which pure consciousness – we aren’t so easily impressed.

Even if we study philosophers and gurus who have elevating ideas, we still try to outdo one another. As long as we remain a mind-product, we are someone else’s belongings.

Being what we originally are means that we no long play others’ games. Body piercings and tattoos aren’t ‘being original’. Striving to be clever and smarter than others isn’t ‘being original’.

Of course, we risk losing friends and family because we’re seeking the truth. They aren’t.

We are pure consciousness that has no needs, except the survival of the body so that we have the time and space to realise and stabilise this ultimate truth, beyond hope and fear.

The real achievement is having compassion for the achievers,
and empathy for the non-achievers. 🙂