Do Not Be Ideological

Being Ideological is a state of the human mind. It means that your are thinking that, what you think is fixed, static, rigid, and everyone must follow your line of thought, without fail, else all hell is going to break lose.

Ideologies are repetitive & normative.

Means ideologies need to be consistently shoved down your throat to work, and you must accept it, for it to work. Else it breaks down.

Ideologies are also normative. People want everyone else to follow their own Ideology. Else ideology dies. This is why religious folks are hell bend on wanting everyone to follow their religion and hateful to anyone displaying non conformists behaviour within their normative framework.

They resort to fear mongering to keep their ideologies alive.

Being Ideological is delving in falsehoods.

I cannot stress how important this is.

Your ability to be happy in life is inversely proportional to how Ideological you are.

Some examples of ideological people are obviously religious & political fanatics. Religious people think their religion is the best. Everyone must follow it. Those who don't, are idiots and they will burn in hell.

Politics is another avenue where people demonstrate extreme Ideological indoctrination.

"My political party is the best, other side are "crazy idiots".

This is doing nothing but creating divisions.

Note: People attach labels like "crazy", "idiot", "dumb", "evil", "stupid" to make sense of a reality that they don't understand.

Labelling something, means you can get away thinking that you are the best.

"Look at what the religious people are doing, they are dumb."

"Look at what the scientists are doing. They are crazy and stupid."

"Look at what Jeff Bezos is doing. He is evil."

"Look at these Feminists, they are crazy women."

Attaching labels is a cope to cover for your lack of understanding of reality.

Attaching labels to aspects of reality and calling it dumb means you are one.

You are calling yourself one.

Those were all the caricature examples to demonstrate a point.

Now to the part where you can get the MOST VALUE.

I am saying that even you are Ideological in your daily life, and it's seriously limiting the happiness and you can enjoy in your life. It also limits your potential for mastery in life.

It's easy to see how only the religious/political people are Ideological. But you are too.

1) Remember when you had homework to complete and you were *scared* that you will get shit from your teacher. *Everyone else* in your class did the HW. Your teacher may give you punishment to repeat the assignment 5 times.

Notice that the situation uses fear, repetition, & normative behaviour to get work done. And that's why you suffered a lot in schools.

Schools made you Ideological.

This is still being Ideological, but several degrees less than political or religious ideologies. But they can still suck the joy, beauty and mastery you can have in life.

And it's important to rip apart any Ideological inclination in your life, if you have any.

Otherwise nice & well behaving people resort to being Ideological when under stressful situations. They were always Ideological, but the stress made the ideology come out to the surface.

This is how you can sever ideological inclinations from your mind.

Put yourself through intellectually demanding & stressful situations and come out of the situation **joyfully & blissfully**.

Most people create suffering for themselves, because the reality is going against their ideological framework they have in their mind.

Suffering is self inflicted. Suffering is a symptom of self Ideological indoctrination.

Note that there is no cure to being Ideological, other than to stop being it. There is no technique which can systematically remove Ideological indoctrination and biases from you.

Simply stop being Ideological.

2) Another way you are being Ideological is when you are completing work and you have to submit your work to your boss. You really think to yourself that the world will crumble if you don't finish the work on time. And you repeatedly think that to youself and create suffering.

I am not telling you to do or not complete your work. I am telling you that you are being Ideological about your work.

You set a specific framework in your mind, which you then think is reality, and you have to religiously conform to it. All of this happens unconsciously.

It has to happen unconsciously. No one will put them in a self created prison of constructs, consciously.

Please note that I am not telling you how to live your life. I am not telling you to complete or not complete the work that yout boss gave you.

I am telling you that being Ideological while you are doing something will take the joy out of life.

The mature way to go about it is to complete the task without being Ideological.

Notice that you have little Ideological patterns in your life.

3) You are Ideological about your salary. Maybe you think to yourself seriously that if you don't make $100k, that you are a loser. And you repeatedly do it and think everyone else who earns below it are losers.

Notice here that you use fear, label attaching, normative behaviour, and repetition to strengthen your Ideology about your income.

Money twitter often makes people Ideological about money, passive income etc. Those have a real flavour of Ideological indoctrination.

Reality dosen't tell you that you need millions in your bank account to live a well meaning life. Reality dosen't say that.

You feel like it's true, because it's ideologically pumped into your head.

You can make millions and not be Ideological about it.

4) In relationships people become easily Ideological and lead to many fights and suffering. You may have specific way about how your spouse must behave. It's ok to have that, but NOT to the point where you become Ideological about it. The other person may suffer lot for it. It will lead to friction and lack of intimacy with the couple.

If you ask your spouse, gf/bf for something and they deny/disagree, be cool about it. Be indifferent and go about your thing as if nothing happened. This will result in increased attraction from your spouse. When he/she realised that you don't need them to be happy. Neediness and niceness also stems from your ideological need for approval and nice guy self image.

The map is not the territory.

The map is the finite model of reality you have created in your head. The map is not the reality itself. It's a corresponding *representation* of reality.

In reality, the map is also a reality, but it doesn't correspond to anything else. The map is just a map.

Ideologically indoctrinated people will not get this.

They think that that the map is the territory.

They will make a mess out of themselves and others for not following their finite model of reality they have in their heads.

In conclusion, I would like to make it clear that you are being Ideological a lot more than you think.

You can be Ideological about not being Ideological. That itself is a mistake. If someone tells you that you are Ideological, tell them that you are working on it. If you resist and say that you are not, that proves their point.

There is a methodology for dealing with problems in the software industry. Technically speaking, you never get a brand new problem to deal with. All problems you are dealing with now has already been there before and somebody else dealt with it Successfully many times. You just have to know how, instead of reinventing the wheel.

Similarly, the problem that you have in your life isn't something brand new that you have faced for the first time. Millions of people have dealt with the and problem before. And we also know the solution.

One such solution is to STOP BEING IDEOLOGICAL.

This alone will solve tons of issues in your life.

Notice those moments that you have suffering in your daily life. In your work, with your friends, family etc.

Establish a link between your stuffering to whatever root Ideological indoctrination you have. Stop the indoctrinations by being more Loving and improving yout level of Consciousness.

Love and Consciousness is the truth.

Ideological indoctrination is the opposite of truth.