Improvement and Burden

I think the concern of improving oneself, being more productive, having a direction, being methodical, rational, has got to do with controlling the mind in some ways.

To doubt oneself and be stuck in the past is of little use. Doubting for the sake of understanding the nature of life is fine. However, to continuously consider oneself 'incomplete' is a tendency of the  mind that requires some monitoring/ supervision/ control.

We remain incomplete from the boundary of mind-body. The void is going to generate thoughts and with thoughts - there is imagination. Imagination has an effect. One can't avoid the effect of thoughts on oneself. Again, the urge to think is unstoppable and therefore, the urge to act. Is urge based on fear? Does it only exist?

If it is possible to change the nature of urge from 'fear' to just existence, the entire nature of imagination changes. And that's the only reality we ought to be concerned with. If that doesn't change, then whatever one does, is doing nothing more than expressing fear in sophisticated ways. And if one expresses fear, one gets it in return too!

A lot of effort is based on techniques, positive actions and thoughts and so on. The real effort is to see the pattern of thoughts and change the pattern to pure sharing/ love/compassion/ expansion. Start by offering something or by giving. Start by considering that one has abundant reservoir of positive energy to be shared and for encouragement with others. The attachment with situations, things, people, work, will thereby start to diminish.

Diminishing attachment means making one's mind extremely "light" and fluid and unbounded with space-time.

Pain, suffering, past, complexities, opinions, judgments are a burden that we carry. The burden comes with separation, considering us unique in the space-time dimension and the urge to be perfect arises.

Removing this clutter of baggage holds the key to lighten the mind.