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Look at them watching. I walked around the corner and they very calmly lifted their heads. They barely moved. They did nothing except look at me with wondering eyes. Even dachshund Koos standing next to me couldn't bother them.
Sheep that don't spook I find strange boarders. They must run away under loud ringing of their bells. Do they? No. Because they don't. It's a learned belief that it should be that way. Say: an idea-fixe! Sheep are flight animals so they should run away at the sight of people and strange dogs.
Control
For the rest of the walk, it didn't let me go. Because isn't that what we humans do all day? Make delusions about events and our fellow humans. To have a foothold in life. To gather certainty. Create superstitions to assuage our fears. Everything outside ourselves instead of within ourselves. We are ceaselessly busy. We want to control the whole world, forgetting that we exist within ourselves. Swept up in the madness of the day, there is not a moment when we sit with ourselves. At least: not enough moments. Otherwise, not so many people would be lost and sick.
In my opinion, now is really the time to at least make a start on discovering and appreciating ourselves. As human beings on this earth. Without the fuss of doing to get appreciation. From the other. But with a focused inward search with the aim of learning to understand what is going on in our heads and what emotions it evokes. Because if we understand how our head works, then a contented life is a piece of cake.
Interrogate
Once I discovered that I am completely in control of which thought I believe and use as a crutch, my world changed instantaneously. It took a lot of effort, pain and discipline to consistently ‘interrogate’ thoughts that made my life uncomfortable. And it still takes it - though to a lesser extent. It happens almost automatically now. Like seeing the sheep. Every idea-fixe can tell me something about myself.
Comatose
The better I understand myself, the easier I fit into the world and the less it takes to understand the world. Because the latter is all interpretation. The elections in America now and the one in 2016 in which Donald Trump was elected are the very best examples of this, aren't they? Only then did it come out that hardly anyone understands anything about the world. Why? Because the herd of comatose people seek certainties from governments and economies. They look like the sheep in this picture.
Addicted
Change is tricky. It's easier to be disciplinedly addicted to drugs (like money and stuff) than to be disciplinedly silent on a regular basis with ourselves. Who would want to lose their so-called certainties? Who would we still be? What could we still talk about if we were no longer a fearful victim and were a human being in all his strength?
Blessing
If we humans knew ourselves, we would have no choice but to live with like-minded people, knowing that the earth makes this beautiful life possible. The earth with its ever-living nature is simply there. Just like the animals. And we humans can develop completely via the path to self-knowledge (awareness of our ingrained habits) with the help of the mind we humans simply have.
A blessing ... so great that it cannot yet be seen in all its magnificence.