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Hope and Positivity

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This might seem contradicting to many, but the fact is that practicing positivity is not as beneficial as you think. It is a form of ignorance. Because, positivity involves the mind, it can never be positive. Remember, any act involving the mind is negative. Practices that help dewiring the mind is positive. Such practices abate the wandering of the mind. The movement of the mind is always flimsy and not unidirectional, so are hopes. We hope not one thing, not once, but many things and many times! So, we have desires sprouting from hopes and senses to achieve them. This is ignorance. Anything done unconsciously is ignorance. Because we are not aware of this cyclic trend of hope transforming into desire then act. These activities generally yield negative results. This causes disturbance, again compelling us to unconsciously accept hope. Now, we hope again, but to get rid of negativity. We hope positivity. This is ignorance of the highest kind as we dream and try to pacify ...

Do you love anybody?

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This is very much evident. If you can sincerely answer this question, then you'll understand this the way it is expressed. "What makes you love your family?", "Why are you attached to your family?". Lets understand this with very specific answers. We love our spouse because he/she earns, fulfills our desires, cooks good food, etc. This is a genuine answer. We might feel: "But, no I sincerely love him/her." You don't love your neighbor or a stranger. Just because they are not related to you. They don't contribute to you emotions. They are not giving you any ind of pleasure. So, simply the answer to this question concludes that we love our family because they satisfy our desires. We love our children because they are our extended form of ego, etc. We are attached to our family because they are ours. We are attached because, we find that particular entity interesting. "That particular entity gives me pleasure and so I love him/her....