No Buffer

Whenever possible, don’t ascribe a story to your experience. We are sense-making machines, so it’s natural to reflexively slap a story onto whatever is happening, so that we feel a little more in control, a little more more secure, a little more safe.

Notice that the need for control and security/safety is the fragile ego at play. If we are aware of this mechanism when it’s action, we don’t have to indulge it.

Instead, another option emerges: being comfortable and confident with the ambiguity that is inherent to life.

Of course, do whatever is within your locus of control to tip the odds in your favour, but don’t lose sight of how dependent you are on…everything, to survive (like the composition of air right now so you can oxygenate yourself).

What if we didn’t need to reach for a story to make sense of our reality right now?

Experiment with removing the buffer that is the story, and see if you are feel less alive or more alive by being more directly in touch with Reality.