We are all looking for that sweet spot—that place of true peace, happiness, and freedom. But most of us are searching in all the wrong places: within the noisy, complicated river of our own thoughts.
The Freedom of Standing Outside the River
The moment you achieve genuine inner peace, a quiet miracle occurs: the painful hopes of attachment end.
This doesn’t mean your mind shuts down. The river of inner thoughts flows as usual—ideas, memories, and emotions continue to move. The critical difference is you are no longer caught in the current.
You are now outside the river.
This liberation means you are no longer trying to change anything or get away from anything. You simply watch the river flow, realizing that its contents have no power to define or disturb you. This state of non-resistance is the first sign that you have dropped the burdens of desire and fear.
The Illusion of Being “Special”
Our minds are constantly being molded by various ideas, ideologies, religions, and philosophies.We eagerly absorb these systems, and when we do, we feel a surge of identity—a sense that we are special because we hold a unique key to the truth.
But this is a subtle trap. In the end, we find ourselves living in imaginary mental worlds—mental images created by these borrowed thoughts.
In none of those constructed places, however grand the philosophy, is there the true peace, happiness, and freedom that your soul genuinely seeks. All that is left are unnatural, original characters and performances—the roles you play based on the beliefs you adopted, not the truth you realized.
Becoming a Man of the Heart
When a person finally breaks free from this mental phenomenon—this constant conditioning and construction—they become a man of the heart.
The mind is a good tool, but the heart is the true compass. Only a man of the heart knows the truth.At that moment of true freedom, he realizes the profound, simple reality of existence: the eternal life, the universal rhythm, or Nibbana.
This truth is impersonal—it has nothing to do with your ego or your story. It simply exists in this nature and is available to anyone who steps out of the mental river and allows themselves to simply be.
Stop being a slave to what you think you should believe. Start trusting what you deeply know. That is where the freedom waits.
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