Day 41 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - You are meant to enjoy...
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Lesson 41: You are meant to enjoy...
We are meant to enjoy our “core self”. In life at one time or another we’ll do what we think is healthy in fitting in, competing others and trying to be “better”. But is this true to our “core self”? I definitely was always an outsider growing up in a predominantly white community in one of the few Asian families that lived there. I was always different and wanted to fit in. I feel that from childhood, this has heavily influenced my dealings with people as a teenager and adult, as I always felt this need to fit in. I always wanted to be in the cool crowd. I always acted like I had money, when in fact, my mother was a single mum and we were not rich, and there were times mum struggled. I always sort of hid that from everyone because I felt like being poor made me insubordinate in some way. I thought richer meant that I was better. The way our minds work hey?
Saturday’s lesson goes through letting go of any of this type of thinking. We need to exist as we truly are in this lifetime. I am to list those I think are “better” than me, as we as list who I think am “better” than. Then I am to ask myself how do these beliefs serve me and how can these beliefs be real.
So I’ve learned through my own awakening that I am no better than anyone, nor them over me, as well as I am no less than someone, nor them to me. When you start to journey through your own spirituality, you start to learn that we are all equal as humans and we shouldn’t treat someone above or less than ourselves. I can’t tell you the exact moment I started to think this in this way. It is a very enlightened way of thinking and a natural flow on the path I decided to take. I honestly think it was when I got to look after elephants and help out a village in Thailand. Seeing how other people lived in a true sense of community, without any of the worries we have in western world was definitely an eye opening experience. It was part of the reason why I started to think I want to help the world on a larger scale one day…. Well that’s the plan anyway. I want to be able to end the homeless problem in Australia as well. It’s odd, I used to see homeless people as dirty and less than me. It actually makes me sick typing that. Like, who the fuck am I to actually ever think that way? When you can actually recognise that we are all human and some need a little bit more help than others, it really makes you re-evaluate what you tend to under appreciate in your life.
Anyway, if you’re reading this, have a think about when you’ve thought someone was better than you or if you’ve thought you’re better than people. We need to exist in ourselves and know that our path is our own. We shouldn’t compare ourselves to each other. We need to start seeing each other as equal no matter what the circumstance.
