01 Jan Indifference

When the mind, ego, or the seeker within you is confronted with the idea of “allowing things to be,” it immediately interprets this as indifference. What do you mean by allowing things to be? Surely, we must know and understand where something comes from, to whom it belongs, why it happens, what it is, and when it began? These are all questions the mind poses to distract you from what is truly unfolding in the present moment and to keep the drama alive. The mind convinces you that if you “let things be” and refrain from intervening, it means you do not care and that you passively stand by without taking action.

The mind’s arrogance lies in its belief that life cannot function without it. What would become of the world if we no longer understood or fixed things? The mind’s greatest fear is its own absence. By perpetually sending you in search of something other than this, it hopes to sustain itself and preserve the narrative—even beyond physical death. This is an exceptionally effective yet deeply destructive survival strategy. This relentless pursuit creates an ever-increasing amount of tension that becomes literally toxic for you and your surroundings.

The Cycle of Trigger and Tension

This tension accompanies you everywhere, repeatedly triggered by people, situations, and environments around you. Each time the trigger is activated, you are catapulted back into the old story, responding with the same reactions and limitations. The greater the tension in your system, the more easily and intensely these triggers are set off.

The energetic impact of this cycle is that you begin to exclude more and more aspects of life simply because you do not know how to engage with them in a way that does not overwhelm you. Many experiences feel so intense, painful, traumatic, or shameful that you prefer to act as though they do not exist. You fear them, judge them, or deny them altogether. You structure your life to avoid these experiences, steering clear of certain people, places, or situations. “I’d rather not see that person again; I avoid that place; I hope I never encounter that situation again.”

Ironically, by doing so, you unwittingly invest in the very indifference the mind wants you to believe is the result of “allowing things to be.” By denying so many aspects of life, your experiential world grows smaller and more restricted. You design your comfort zone to shield yourself from what life presents, inadvertently excluding more and more. The consequence of this contraction is that the walls keeping life at bay grow higher and thicker, transforming your comfort zone into a prison that becomes increasingly confining.

Expanding Through the Compassionate Heart

When you consciously welcome life into your compassionate heart and allow all your experiences to simply be, you remind your system that it is fully equipped to engage with every aspect of life without being overwhelmed by it. The heart can register all frequencies, information, and energies and allow them to fully exist. In doing so, you release old tension and stop accumulating new stress in the familiar ways.

Not only does your capacity for life expand, but the intensity with which you experience it grows exponentially. Your comfort zone widens, and your defence mechanisms become obsolete. The result is that you are fully alive again. Instead of shutting life out, you meet it with openness and compassion.

The Liberation of True Compassion

True compassion reveals the illusion that what you experience is personal. Finally, things are seen and felt as they truly are—raw, immediate, and brimming with life. This creates space for action that arises from flow, the intrinsic intelligence of life that organises everything far better than we could ever imagine. Everything unfolds magically and effortlessly, at the right moment, continually generating energy.

Consciously making yourself available to this intelligence is the exact opposite of indifference.