You yourself are your worst enemy

[Kojiro]

"Always visualize yourself as a powerful being, you don't need external enemies, your worst enemy is the image you have inside your head about yourself"

[-ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ-]

I beat myself up every day 

[Shadow_self]

8 minutes ago, Kojiro said:

Your worst enemy is the image you have inside your head about yourself"

 

Your worst enemy can be your best friend given the correct approach  

 

Many people are often drawn towards practice due to either seeing a deficiency in the world, or...in themselves (or both)

 

Its a curious thing that the things we so often think are destructive and hell in our lives, are sometimes catalysts for change, or  directional shifts and a reorientation towards something higher.

 

We just rarely see it when we are in it. 

[old3bob]

On 10/31/2022 at 2:35 PM, Kojiro said:

"Always visualize yourself as a powerful being, you don't need external enemies, your worst enemy is the image you have inside your head about yourself"

 

realization of  Om Tat Sat  will break the back of being our own worst enemy per a program in our mind...

[exorcist_1699]

We succumb to those senses , emotions  and   imaginations of ourselves  that the  world  gives us.  Although some look subjective , some look  objective , their limitations on us are  insurmountable ; which is sadly contrary to  what most of us   think that we  , with some kinds of  efforts,  can someday  be in charge of our fates .   

Can a  2-dimensional  creature escape  from its  2-D world  by jumping overhead into an extra dimension and becomes free ? If it can , the world once blocked  its movement and intelligence  , once limited what it  could see, what it could dream of ..now becomes free of limitations  just because of  attaining  that  extra freedom ; and ,  even its clock now ticks differently .  What we need is an extra  dimension to leave . This is why a  Zen patriarch secretly whispers in his great  works *  , which seldom noticed by readers ,  that  " Detachment is what the way should be " (" 離即是法"  )  and Taoist alchemy  always emphasizes the  "pre-heavenly qi " ( "先天氣") ,  stuff from another dimension via the Magic Gateway .

 

* ‹‹  傳心法要  ››  Other sayings like " 離一切諸相, 即是諸佛 " ,  "一根既返本, 六根成解脫 " ,all talk about the same thing.

Edited November 15, 2022 by exorcist_1699