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Questioning Oneself - to See Reality (158)

Introduction

Questioning oneself also known as self-inquiry is something that is very remarkably useful and helpful in our psychological work. It helps us to cut through all our falsity in which unfortunately we believe in and it also helps us to find the true values of our essence.

Buddhism especially Tibetan Buddhism make us of self-inquiry as does oriental schools of thought devoted to the development of the consciousness. Nonetheless it seems to be a very oriental or Eastern line or way of working.


How Do We Discover the Values that We Have

I ask myself how are the values of our essence which are also values of our Being found in us? They are or discovered in various events or through inquiry or self-questioning. Values are invisible to us and to others, they are only known by their results or the actions or ways of thing that they produce in us or in others.


What We Look Outside of Ourselves For

There is the common line of thought or truth actually that we look outside for things that we have inside. So that what we try to find outside of ourselves we already have within us, however it is in a form that is not so obvious to us and has to be discovered by us. This is actually part of the awakening of consciousness.


Hypnotised Consciousness

Because our consciousness is hypnotised from within we as part of the condition of being hypnotised, believe very strongly in things that are not true, and the reason why we believe in stuff that is not true is because we don’t ask ourselves the simple question: is it true?

That of being hypnotised from inside is very easy to verify and the way it can be shown is by noticing how we believe that our own thoughts are true. Most of the time our thoughts are really untrue, but this inner hypnosis has us believe in them as if they were true.

To be hypnotised is to lose sight of what is true and to be awakened is to know what is true and to be able to clearly see reality.


Conflict with Reality = Suffering

Much of the conflicts that we have within is due to a conflict with reality and what exists inside us in terms of expectations, desires, beliefs and concepts. Seeing what is real brings us peace and takes suffering away.

The realer qualities are those of the essence or the consciousness, they are those things which we call virtues. Or we may actually say that virtues are the freely working fractions of essences and the egos are conditioned fractions of essence working according to their conditioning. And it happens that the conditioned workings of the essence that is trapped, is wrong or rather it is not real and it is this that conflicts with reality.


Conclusion

See reality always and it will stop or ease the suffering. The more we search for reality and the real outside and inside the better for us, and the less hypnotised we will be, and consequently the more awakened we will be too.


End (158).

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