Review 39: Unreal and Real

As I enter another birthday I have decided that my focus in life is a focus on the real. The focus on the real means turning away from a lot of things that I get upset or angry about and know them to be unreal. These include the economy, geopolitics, and other things that I have no control over. I will continue to read about them but the goal is to be detached from them. My opinions are largely going to be my own.

Arguing or even considering these things is a waste of mental cycles as it does not provide anything meaningful. It just creates anger, frustration and emptiness. These are all pointless endeavors. I cannot change the nature of the world all I can do is work in a detached manner. The more you are attached to changing something the more frustrating it becomes. This beginning and end cycle. This attempt to forcefully preserve or change is difficult and unsettles the mind.

The only real is Brahman. So the only real is serving others whoever they may be. Whatever they do, whatever they say about you the goal is to do good in the world. The only purpose is to serve others, anything done for selfish motives is pointless. Anything done to optimize money is selfish, any money used to invest in others so that they can grow while growing your business is selfless.

Ironically, we are living in a world where selfishness is rewarded and selflessness is not. So there needs to be a balance of selflessness with material reward for the others.

In order for me to succeed in this endeavor my goal is to give up a few things:

• anger and hate. They are pointless. Be strong and be willing to wield power but be nice.
• selfish desires. No longer do things that are for yourself, do things for others. Make serving others your life.
• religion doesn’t matter. Serve all and everyone for Brahman.