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January 2010 
Tyranny of I's...TSK wk 3
starlight
While life brings us happy times, most of us experience a larger proportion of suffering...
Whether it is physical, mental, or emotional, the I’s that claim and own suffering, seem to be working overtime to make our lives here on earth miserable...most of us are trapped and have ‘given up’ trying to find our way out...and so, we continue to conform to conditioned ways of knowing, a tyranny of patterns which entangle our I’s, conditioning them further, and we never consider investigating the possibility that our ways of knowing, which perpetually take us in endless circles, can be opened to discovering knew ways of knowing, that would free us from the entrapment and persecution of all our me, myself, and I’s...
At the bottom of every pattern, at the very foundation of every I that we call on to protect our illusion, is fear...we have to control everything, and when we cannot, and we cannot, we suffer...and so our lives become about controlling our lives and the lives of others to obtain and own happiness...and we spend a life time trying to obtain this allusive happiness...always working towards it, thinking if I just have this, if I just have that, when I get this, when I have that...I will be happy...then life happens in the form of some catastrophe or tragedy, we lose what we thought was there to make us happy, and maybe it did for a season, but now it’s gone, and then our I becomes depressed, broken, frustrated, maybe even physically injured, addicted to drugs, or maybe we give up completely and try and kill ourselves... And the I? It still wants what it wants and it wants it right now! Usually, it is equipped in every justification, it cares not that it tortures us in unspeakable ways, it demands attention at any cost, and fights back with it’s fangs out when challenged...
Would we be free of this I if we could be? Looking at ourselves without the illusion of an I in it’s many forms is not an easy thing to do, and not one that many are willing to do...we love our illusions...we love our drama...we love the roller coaster that our lives exist upon...and we don’t like taking responsibility for ourselves, others, and the universe and earth on which we live as well, so we accept the tyranny of our I’s, because our fears prevent us from looking deeper...and so, we are imprisoned, and we accept it, and we use all our beliefs, outrageous as they may be, to make us feel better about ourselves and the suffering world around us...and that seems to work for many people, but behind the illusion, that will soon fade, what has really been accomplished? If happiness is a destination and not the journey...who or what is achieving it, or how is happiness ever really achieved? Especially when the world around us and where we live, is suffering so?
If we are not finding joy in the journey of living...what are we doing? If we are not creating new ways of knowing joy for ourselves and those we love...why are we here? If we continue to allow others to tell us what we are, or what we should believe about what we are or who we are, aren’t we just settling for someone else’s journey? Is that good enough? Should we not inquire into our own minds, our own being, our own lives and experiencing to answer questions about ourselves? How can we help anyone else before we have learned how to help ourselves?
Instead of inquiring into ourselves, our lives become about things; possessions...and because we are unable to truly know ourselves, we are unable to intimately know anyone or anything else...no matter what illusion we might pass the time of day with...this is the truth...the truth that our tyranny of I’s prevent us from seeing...
other entries in this tsk series...
Starlight's entries...
Davidu's entries...
The Self In Question~TSK wk 2-3
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