09-25-2020, 11:07 PM
There is a room with a door. You are within this room. The door is closed.
Do you wish to open the door?
If you do not open the door you know that anything COULD be outside the room but you know not what. Does it satisfy you more to picture the space outside the room as pleasurable? Perhaps the outside is a place of happy people that like to entertain each other and love to work together. Perhaps outside the room is a beautiful forest with happy little trees and a beautiful sky. Outside the room may be a place that will make you happy.
But outside the room there may also be a person or creature that intends to cause you pain, or force you to cause pain to innocent others. Perhaps outside the room there is ignorance, and corruption, and greed, that all want their filthy hands on your mind. Maybe the space outside the room is not so friendly after all.
If you chose to open the door, this entire world collapses and what remains is what actually is. No more happy, no more evil, there is only the outside of the room, whatever it may be.
However, if the door remains unopened, this entire world of possibilities exists for you to choose what satisfies your desires.
Do you wish to throw away the possibility that you MAY be able to have anything you could imagine, and get something you cannot possibly predict?
Do you wish to open the door?
If you do not open the door you know that anything COULD be outside the room but you know not what. Does it satisfy you more to picture the space outside the room as pleasurable? Perhaps the outside is a place of happy people that like to entertain each other and love to work together. Perhaps outside the room is a beautiful forest with happy little trees and a beautiful sky. Outside the room may be a place that will make you happy.
But outside the room there may also be a person or creature that intends to cause you pain, or force you to cause pain to innocent others. Perhaps outside the room there is ignorance, and corruption, and greed, that all want their filthy hands on your mind. Maybe the space outside the room is not so friendly after all.
If you chose to open the door, this entire world collapses and what remains is what actually is. No more happy, no more evil, there is only the outside of the room, whatever it may be.
However, if the door remains unopened, this entire world of possibilities exists for you to choose what satisfies your desires.
Do you wish to throw away the possibility that you MAY be able to have anything you could imagine, and get something you cannot possibly predict?