The fact is: not accepting Life as It is means living in conflict. This "life in conflict" is living with problems. Now, the non-acceptance of Life as Life is, represents an illusion. So, problems are illusory. So, all problems are illusions.
When the mind faces what is and confronts, rejects, fights, resists, it is cultivating illusory problems. This is the condition of the egoic mind.
The problems you have in life are not problems. What you have in life are appearances that will soon disappear. Appear for a while and then disappear.
So, what you call a problem is the mind resisting these appearances. Therefore, all problems are illusory, because they are all based on what the mind is building and thought is holding. It is thought in resistance. It is thought fighting. It is thought in conflict.
So, all problems are illusory, because they are all based on this fight, this conflict, this resistance, this proposal built by thought. They are thought's ideas. They are constructions of thought.
You may face adversity, complexities, difficulties, but they are not a problem, they do not represent suffering. Suffering arises, appears, when the mind projects something onto it. Then, you are faced with a problem, an illusory problem constructed by thought.
What in fact is present is an adversity, a complexity, a difficulty, a challenge, but thought turns that into an internal conflict, based on fight, based on resistance. So, you're faced with a problem. But all problems are illusory!
That which is here and now, will soon disappear, because the nature of everything is to change. So, don't turn a given situation into a psychological problem, into a suffering, and that's what the ego has been doing.
Your work of discovering the Truth about Yourself is the work of discarding that ego-identity. Therefore, it is the discarding of the end of suffering, of this psychological suffering, of these illusory problems, which are all constructed by thought. Is that clear?
The next time you face a difficulty, you are facing just a difficulty. Don't turn it into a problem by creating any resistance. Welcome that without resistance. That's when you are facing just a difficulty and not a problem. You will not be facing suffering, a psychological conflict. But it is necessary to bring consciousness to that moment. It is necessary to bring attention to that moment, so that there is no resistance, so that the conflict does not settle, so that suffering does not establish itself.
This is how one lives intelligently, without conflict, without suffering, without resistance, without this sense of separation between this "me" and what is shown, without the duality between "me" and this appearance, which, in this case, is a difficulty, a challenge, an adversity, a complexity. All right?
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