Expansion and contraction is just the nature of consciousness: # 2







7)--- The me only exists in the mind, and judgments are a way the mind maintains the idea of a me: I am someone who is good, who is bad, who is smart, who is dumb, who has a problem, who doesn’t have a problem (fill in the blanks for yourself). These are the stories we tell ourselves, which create our identity and the sense of a separate self.






8)--- We actually create problems (which stem from our judgments) because they give us an identity. They give our mind something to do. Our problems structure our lives. Now we know who we are and what we’re going to do: I’m someone who has a problem and who has to solve that problem. That’s who I am and what I’m going to do with my life. Now we have a story.





9)--- Ultimately, the suffering doesn’t come from where our consciousness is but from the effort to hold it in one place or make it open when it’s closed. Just be curious about wherever we are.




10)--- It’s not up to us where our consciousness flows or whether it expands or contracts. Neither is right or wrong. Get curious about both of these possibilities. Expansion and contraction is just the nature of consciousness, like breathing in and breathing out.




11)--- Liberation is giving everything we’ve got to whatever we’re experiencing.


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