Is there self?
How to stop self centered activities?
Self means our Me, our ego, our center from which we act. Our religions have told us that there is real self apart from our me.
An idea of Self is the cause of division : me and you, my country and your country, my religion and your religion etc. Where there is division there is conflict, violence and wars. Self is the essence of pleasure and entertainment. Self is always there in waking state and in sleeps state. Any effort to free from self is also part of self activities. It is the self only which makes an effort to be free from itself. Our desires and our attachments are also part of the self. To get free from self means to get free from desires and attachments.
Is it possible to be free from attachment, self without any efforts? Is it possible Not to identify with anything: country, religion, family, past experiences, past knowledge, past accommodation. From that sense of deep non attachment comes a sense of responsibility. Perception of this truth will free us from attachments, desires and self.
Will yoga help us?
Yoga means highly moral life. Modern yoga schools and teachers teach different exercises. Kundalini yoga can give us some experiences but they all won't awaken spiritual insight. When no effort is there then there is different kind of energy takes place.
Can there be absolute security?
Search for psychological security is preventing physical security. Our mind feel secure in attachments: family, society, beliefs, nations. Demanding these psychological security we have divided ourselves. Psychological security is just an illusion. Moment we see the truth, we cease to belong to anything. Desire for psychological security has created all illusory concepts. There is absolute security when one sees Truth in false.
How to reduce the strength of emotions and attachments?
First one should aware of his own strong emotions and attachments. They are barrier to our clear thinking and activities. When Emotions and attachments are just not idea but becomes fact, they are not separate from our me, our ego, our consciousness. When there is division between me and my attachments, me think that he can do something about attachments. But when one realises that me and his attachments are one, then he can't do anything but just observes. Observation becomes important. In pure observation there is no choice and no direction, no interference of thought, then there is pure energy. Only the UNintelligent that are attached, and they are majority in the world. Attachment is the danger which feeds fear, anxiety, insecurity. When we see danger then there is action without thinking.
When a man wants a light to himself must be free from all attachments and emotions. When there is no Me then he can become a light to himself.
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