OUTSIDE IN VIEW

[Pravin Kumar]

Outside In View:

Accepting everything as it is may seem unrealistic, but the alternative is to not accept it and look at things from an outside in view (reaching) and in the process cause your own suffering.

It's not the changes that occur in life that throw you for a loop, it's the outside in view that things will always be a certain way, that’s what makes changes much more difficult to cope with. If everything could be accepted as it is, one would never be thrown for a loop because the outside in view that tells you things should remain as they are wouldn't occur. Accepting everything as it is seems like a tall order, but the alternative is to not accept it and look at things from an outside in view and in the process cause your own suffering.

For one to get beyond the outside in view, it has to be understood that it's your own mind that creates it. Life is what's seen through the view that’s created and it’s created through the conditioning in place. Why a view is considered outside in is because of how the mindset is reach out there when changes occur and the change isn't accepted. This reaching keeps the mind closed to the conditioning that sees things as outside in; if this conditioning isn't changed the outside in view will not change. It's not that a certain view needs to be implemented, all that's needed is to be aware of the outside in view. Awareness is key in change because it allows for acceptance of what is and when the world can be accepted as it is, good, bad, or indifferent, then just maybe you will view life from the inside out...

MICHAEL CUPO