The Master Only Opens The Gate, It Is The Student Who Must Cross It.

Is it possible to insert an idea into a human’s mind?

Is it feasible?

The current state of the Self-Help industry has different ways to answer this questions. But are they right?

I’ve come to learn there is no right, and there is no wrong. The real question is: Are they effective?

If they were, there wouldn’t be so many of them. Their products would satisfy whoever follows the recipes. The problem is, they don’t solve anything. My master was right, the problems only perpetuate when recipes are followed.

Why couldn’t I see this before?

It seems so clear now.

I must go back in time, 2 years from now to be exact.

I was once a student of everything. Seeking for the answers of life. Something inside told me there were answers. My profile picture on every social media is now a picture of my younger self. When I was a kid, I questioned everything. I remember these thoughts as if it was yesterday. Sounds cliché, but it’s the truth. Keeping these pictures reminds me of the bliss of ignorance and the beauty of having an empty mind.

As I grew up, I searched for the answers of life. As I’m now sure, I knew there was something in the world that wasn’t alright, I just couldn’t articulate what I was looking for. As it is usually the case for us humans, we rarely ask the real questions we have inside, we even very rarely know what we want.

I tried everything. Spend a lot of resources seeking for “The Answers”. But nothing would satisfy me. Nothing would satiate the thirst. I got tired of “The 3 step plan to X”. I got tired of “Here’s 10 hacks you can implement today”. And all the stupid ways gurus and motivational speakers talk to their potential customers.

The recipes were there, but the heart would doubt.

Until one day, I listened to a podcast. The words would flow through me so easily, frictionless. There wasn’t even time to agree upon each thought that was being discussed, and I found myself repeating over and over again “That’s what I thought all along!”

There was a recurrent theme, TRUTH.

I went through the rabbit hole. It was deep. But it felt like home.

Intellectually I was there, but practically I was light years behind. I realized I was such a farse. But it wasn’t hard to see, it wasn’t hard to understand and truly see myself through the lens of truth. In time, I realized I had always looked for truth, since I was a little boy. It was in me to do it. It felt so natural, it was easy.

The message was so truthful, it never tried to convince me. Not even once.

Was this human trying to insert an idea inside my mind?

No he didn’t.

But it happened. Or did it?

The truth is, the idea was already there. Inside of me.

It was just a matter of cleaning the conditioning of society. It was just a matter of removing the mud. Removing the dust.

So, is it possible to insert an idea inside a human’s mind? Is it possible to truly teach something?

Whatever comes through, comes through. It is a two way highway. Various things have to be aligned in order for that to happen.

But we are who we are. In many ways our destiny is already forged by our own DNA (to steal some of my Master’s vocabulary).

I still have a long way to go. I’m not the mind Master I want to be. I still can’t see some things.

But now I know they are there, inside of me.

All the answers are inside of every one of us. We do not need masters.

We can open our own gates and get inside. For all the answers lie within us.

We just need to really see and be courageous enough to explore.

The greatest desire always wins. If the desire to explore is there, is there.

There’s no need to Do. The Matrix has been revealed.

Free Your Mind.

MI

Myself with my Mom. In many ways, that kid already knew everything.