Choose Your Life's Path

Throughout the day there are many events that can knock me off balance.

Old habits can start running. Old hurts can bubble up. Desire ignite. Resistance solidifies. It's all fuel for the ego and it makes it stronger.

Awareness can get pulled into the gravity of these emotions, and it gets lost within the stories that I tell myself. A syndrome between my internal monologue and my emotions begins. A hurt view of the world emerges from this syndrome.

At any moment, I can snap out of it completely. There is often a great temptation to resist this, but I have been through suffering many times, and I know the pattern.

Pattern recognition is key. Once I am aware that I am in the same old neighborhood where I got beat up last time, I do everything that I can to get out of it, no matter how tempting it is to stay there.

What are the temptations? A sense of "me", desire for pleasure, a hurt story, wanting to be understood, wanting vindication, to be "someone", to be wanted, needed, the list goes on. It's all about the "me" and its desire to be real.

Step out of the "me". Step out of darkness into the light of awareness.

Be free of the terrible burden of identity.

And then choose your life's path.