The Blindfold of Conditioning

From the moment we are born, the conditioning begins. By the time we are grown, we have been given an entire conceptual framework through which we live and act.

It can then be said that our actions are not truly our own. They are the actions we have been conditioned into.

When one considers a course of action, they ask questions such as “What should I do?” and “What is the right thing to do?”

These are conditioned questions. If one examines them deeply, they are without substance.

The conditioning runs so deeply that even as I write this people are beginning to think, “So, is he telling me I should drop these frameworks?”

There is no should. There is no right.

It is no wonder that people go through life without knowing what they really want. From the second they arrive in the world they are told that what they “should” do is more important than what they want. (I am not saying that what you want is important. That is your conditioning interpreting my words.)

So why might a person forego his shoulds and should-nots in favor of seeing what he truly wants? Because as long as one ignores his desires they will remain the same. Burn that into your skull.

We wonder why people spend 30 years without ever changing, without ever learning. This is the reason.

As long as you look at life through the lens of your conditioning, you will be blind to reality.

Walking through life while blind to reality, you will naturally be confused every time you bump into it.

You will wonder about why you haven’t changed, why you haven’t succeeded, why you haven’t become happy. All the answers are right before you, yet you have learned to overlook them.

Wisdom is the ability to see things that hide in plain sight. All humans are born with this capacity, few ever realize it.