Your Self Operating System has been running since you were born. Is it running you, or are you running it?
We have a system to book a ticket or reach a new city. Ask how to be steady, or a good parent, and the mind goes quiet. We learned the apps. Nobody installed the OS.
The fox could not reach the grapes, so it called them sour. We see the problem as outside, when the real answer lies within.
Exam was tough? Or was I prepared? Start asking the better question.
Once it boards, it pulls you through all seven stations. The last one is always destruction.
From the first station to the seventh, the same seven stops from the Bhagavad Gita 2.62 to 2.63. Beware: every day we board multiple Loop Trap Trains.
You cannot fight a loop from inside the loop.
The cure begins with clarity
Absorb to observe. Defocused focus, not tunnel vision. The foundation of the whole system.
Viparyaya: false knowledge that feels completely true.Yoga Sutra 1.8
Confusion to conviction. The right action, at the right moment, with the right intensity.
Even Duryodhana knew the right path, and could not walk it.Pandava Gita
Reaction to response. Make Shanta, calm, your steady ground, so emotions pass like weather.
Between stimulus and response there is a space.Viktor Frankl
A scheduled, honest date with your own Self OS. Not introspection for inspiration, but introspection for examination, the kind that finds the problem and begins to fix it.