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Sunday, October 24, 2021

I Stories

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” ― Kamand Kojouri

Believing the narratives woven by thoughts people live a fictional life. The melodrama, fantastic romance, dreams, tragedies, the ego tells the story to itself. Filling the space with imagination, hopes, wishes, fantasy, riding high in ecstasy, and low down in dumps in its own narration. It is like turning pages of fictional novel. It has everything victimization, heroism romancing and story is incomplete without a villain. Family drama revolving around neglect abuse blame and scapegoatism. It is all about I, me, mine; a person emerges from the story. If one doesn’t have a story, if one is not a character in a story then one don’t exist. Mind is a story telling machine. Hence, it is not easy to not believe in a story. Story for everything bad marriage, problematic children, loneliness, an enlightenment story. Even prepared to kill or die for a religious fiction, an ideal or a principle in pursuit of heaven.

Thoughts drag one into falsely created drama only when there is reaction to the stories. Stories to manipulate each other and configure relationships. The person stories acted out seem so real, and hard to get out of the convoluted mess. Believing in external circumstances and drama of bad relationships, difficult marriage etc making it worse and strengthens the character.

Dis-identifying and disengaging from stories, when one stops living in stories, fictions and delusions, then the mind space clears. Seeing through the romance and tragedy, truth is revealed then they seem foolish and comical. Life experiences seems silly and trivial which once appeared as life and death situations.

Commit to detached observation of oneself, be present and know the truth about -my life stories. See the Self is absolute awareness, an impersonal witnessing presence in which all such stories appear.

Do we really want the truth, or do we want a truth that fits our narrative? -Daniel Cameron

Transcending the ego, realizing the truth of Self and realizing the falseness of the story and the character is liberating. But unaware of the truth an ego mind would be lost in darkness, may be driven to psychosis being terrified of its own nonexistence, when it is characterless without a story. This fragile vulnerable ego can easily be caught in another’s story that would be a never ending story. Ego is dependent and founded on life chronicles, it exists and sustains on stories.

I stories are always forever incomplete, hoping, searching and moving towards a happy future. Pay no attention to any I stories —they all are false.

“As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.” ― David Hare


🙏 May I be the guiding light for all those on the path to realize their true nature.

Thankyou !!

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