Ambition turns Our life into a product | Aswin Sundharam | Romancelovesophy

2 months ago

Your ambition is not a ladder. It is the mind’s way of staying busy so it does not have to face its own absence. In this video, we look directly at the drive we call success, the climb we call progress, and the quiet panic between goals. We think ambition is the path to becoming real. It is not. Ambition is the mind’s most effective distraction. It creates a future, a target, a better version of you that never arrives. While we climb, we never look at what is holding the ladder up: the ground, the substratum, reality itself. The mind cannot face that ground because the mind is not real. It is a function pretending to be you. We stop the climb. We turn the mind within. We trace the sense of "I" to its source. Not to achieve anything. To cease being what we are not. What remains is self-aw