Choose the right cognition
Listen!
When you try to drop your problems, it is a lifelong struggle, and it never really happens. But when your problems drop you, it is for good!
How can we ever make our problems drop us?
The truth is, you can't!
You can only grow beyond them, and they will drop away on their own.
Understand this example: Suppose you try to forcibly take a toy away from a child, he will be crying and screaming, because he feels that his whole life is being taken away! The toy is the only existing thing in his world at that moment. But when the same child grows up, he automatically goes beyond toys, and the toy will automatically drop him! It will simply fall away from his life. In the same way, enriching simply expands you beyond your small identity and all its incompletions.
Expansion is a choice you have, every moment of your life. In every significant decision in your life, you have a choice to make a 'bondage cognition' or a 'liberation cognition'. You have a choice to continue struggling with your drinking problem or your depression or your relationship conflicts - or you can grow beyond them, so that they themselves drop you and go away. Choosing the liberation cognition which enriches you and others is the right intelligence for life.
Everything that happens in your life is a result of your cognition about that part of your life. Irrespective of what life gives you, your experience becomes your cognition, driving your future experiences.
- v Cognition has the power to either liberate you or bind you
- v Bondage cognition is the cognition that drives you to take decisions or actions based on external reasons
- v Liberation cognition is the cognition that helps you respond to life based on YOU.
Listen: all the regrets in your life are nothing but the past situations where you feel that you did not stretch to your ultimate potential! Whenever you regret something, it means you know that you did not do your authentic best. And if you are carrying regrets in your old age, it means that your life is a failure. I tell you - enriching others is the only way you will feel that your life has been a success, because enriching expands you beyond your limited identity. In every step, at every level, whenever you enrich others, Life enriches you!
All the regrets in my life are nothing but the past situations where I feel that I did not stretch to my ultimate potential.