16/04/2026
Painting: "The Cosmic Cocoon"
Acrylic on Panel 25x25cm (10x10")
© 2026 Sēbāsānanda
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🪷 “The cycle can be broken, the cyclical nature cannot”
🔑 While specific, recurring, and often negative patterns (the "cycle") can be interrupted and transformed, the underlying, inherent tendency for life to move in cycles (the "cyclical nature") is permanent.
Due to the nature of worldly existence, it is unlikely that all of humanity will become nonviolent. But any individual can break the cycle of violence within themselves by cultivating compassion and wisdom.
🪷 "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."
🔑 The belief in a separate 'soul' that travels from life to life exists only within the mind's construction of time. In true, direct experience, everything takes place in the "now" of pure Awareness.
While past-life experiences and the sense of being a 'soul' may feel real, they are essentially memories and concepts within a dream. They have no existence outside of current consciousness. Focusing on these experiences or the idea of a personal soul is less important than recognizing one's essential nature as Being or Awareness, which is timeless, without beginning or end, and unaffected by birth or death.
If you are looking to change the world, or become a better ‘you’, you do you.
But if there is genuine interest in truth and nothing but the truth, start here: investigate the validity of the ‘I’-thought. Because the moment you perceive someone as "the other," violence has already begun.
Violence is not out there in the world. It starts with misidentification with the ‘I’-thought, misunderstanding the fundamental reality of existence, which is pure Beingness without beginning or end.