The Power of the Internal World

Everything that is not an elementary necessity, such as food and water, can be found within ourselves. Many of the things we pursue can be found within us, making many of our external pursuits unnecessary, and at times, tiring and frustrating.

While we cannot find a sports car within ourselves, we can indeed stimulate many experiences that are usually gained externally through mental training. We can stimulate the feeling of driving in a sports car using only our minds.

This is why those who may live in esoteric countries, where many of the luxuries we first-world citizens have are missing, may be just as happy as we are, or even happier. Some of them may have obtained a mindset that keeps them happy despite their financial deprivation. You could literally be in an empty room and be extremely happy, while another person could be in a luxurious penthouse and suffocate.

The roots of our mental state lie mainly within our mindsets. External stimulation may be inferior to our mindsets if we adopt or create a mindset that can be used to surpass said stimulation.

It is a matter of introspection, of listening to our thoughts, inspecting them, and altering them in any way we wish. We are not our thoughts or emotions. While we cannot choose them directly, we can influence them directly to indirectly choose our thoughts and emotions, making us the possible dictators of our own internal world.

It can be compared to trains and those responsible for the alteration of the railroads. Your thoughts and emotions are like trains, and you cannot control them. What you can control, in the comfort of your station, is the way the trains go. While you cannot command the trains and their drivers, you can control the railroad networks, directing the trains in any way you wish.

The metaphorical station you are in is so invulnerable that no external stimulation can go inside of it unless you choose to let it in.

Thus, even in the hardest of situations, you can still preserve or alter the railroad network of the trains, making your mentality a potential source of autonomy and endurance. Even if you are to experience something difficult, you can still choose how to view it and relate to it in any way you choose.

The frustrated person is deceived. They are unaware of the inner potential that lies within them, to become more self-sufficient and stronger through the training of the mind. They may see themselves as victims to external circumstances, which could possibly lead them to a pessimistic view towards life in general.

The wise person, however, knows that they are the horse driver and not the horse itself. They distinguish between the screen and the person who watches the screen and holds the remote control. They know that they will hear loudly if they raise the volume, and see darker or lighter if they change the colors of the television. Perspective is a matter of either adopting or creating, and accepting or rejecting.

That's how illusions work, and perspectives are a component of them.

Either way - adopting or creating and accepting or rejecting - it is all a matter of preference and influence. The influence is the stimulation received, and the preference is the way you let said influence affect you. How much you let stimulation affect you is of your own choosing, even if there are more factors involved. Even if you believe you are the victim of external circumstances - the belief itself is, too, of your own choosing.

The more you understand this insight and use this insight to design your perception of reality in accordance to your own choosing, the wiser you will become.

That's how illusions work, and perspectives are a component of them.

Either way—adopting or creating, and accepting or rejecting—it is all a matter of preference and influence. The influence is the stimulation received, and the preference is the way you let that influence affect you. How much you let stimulation affect you is of your own choosing, even if there are more factors involved. Even if you believe you are the victim of external circumstances, that belief is also of your own choosing.

The more you understand this insight and use it to design your perception of reality in accordance with your own choosing, the wiser you will become.