Your Greatest Birthright

If an honest human examines their life with eyes that truly see, what will they observe?

They will observe the fact that their entire life is just a series of problems — and reactions to those problems.

A person may desire attention: Thus, they look to purchase clothes and exercise in a way that tends to this desire. A person may desire the approval of their family: Thus, they look to excel at school and their career to tend to this desire. A person may desire fame: Thus, they look to do out-of-the-ordinary things to tend to this desire.

What do you call a person that is forever ‘tending’ to things? A slave.

Virtually all humans live enslaved existences. A slave is given orders, and they must react to them; else, they face some sort of punishment. This is precisely how a human’s life plays out: It is a wholly reactionary existence. Indeed, one is always reacting as the punishment is always in view; a human lives their life with a gun pressed against their temple.

The feeling of failure. The feeling of falling behind. The feeling of not conforming. The feeling of not having achieved enough. The feeling of not having impressed. The feeling that you are missing out on certain things in life.

What will you do with all these guns pointed at you? Will you not react?

If you scrutinise all the actions that a person engages in any given day, you will see almost nothing is pursued for the pure joy of it. Nothing is true. Everything is a reaction.

And this is why a human lives in perpetual dissatisfaction. Only that which is pursued out of pure joy is worthwhile — everything else is a reaction that only feeds a cycle of despair. A human’s life plays out like this because he has ceded control of his life to his mind and all its conditioning. A mind that tells him he needs a ‘respectable’ job. A mind that tells him he needs a family to be ‘happy.’ A mind that tells him he needs to be able to afford a certain standard of living.

It is depressing to contemplate just how deeply entrenched everyone’s conditioning and enslavement is. But, let me ask you something:

Was it always meant to be this way?

Is perpetual dissatisfaction simply an immutable fact of human life? Was a human always meant to be a slave to their mind and society’s conditioning?

No.

You and every human that has ever been born was given the most incredible birthright. Your mind. Freedom.

But through a lifetime of conditioning, you lost control of your mind. You stopped being the master of your universe, and instead became its slave. Do you really believe this is the natural order of things? Do you really believe that humans — the ultimate apex predators of this Earth, the ones who built the pyramids, the ones that can take flight without wings — were meant to live miserly, enslaved existences?

Of course not.

The journey to freeing oneself and taking total control of their mind is not inorganic or unnatural. It is taking back what was always your birthright. It is climbing back up the steps to the throne that was always meant for you.

Can you imagine having total control over how you feel in any given situation? Can you imagine being able to create incredible things, and, simply for the pure joy of it? Can you imagine being permanently free of all suffering?

You don’t even need to imagine. You can have it.