The Vicious Cycle Or The Vicious Spiral

A man goes through a series of the same events with a series of the same action. Even though the events are not in favor of him, he keeps trying every day to change that one action that leads him to the same outcomes, but he fails every time. He tries different methods, ideas, and procedures, and sometimes he fails victoriously by just an inch, and other times he makes the same mistakes.

The cycle of his pain keeps continuously moving, with the man facing pointless suffering with each cycle. Because humans have an inherent need to search for meaning in everything, the man too continued searching for the meaning of his pointless suffering. With every effort to change the actions that he wants, he realizes many things and finally finds the meaning that he was searching for.

At this point, the man has reached the end of the cycle. He can now break free from it by following its tangent. But now, he has become so comfortable with the cycle that he can no longer feel free even if he is outside of the cycle. Now, he is in a state of wanting to remain in the cycle while also wanting to escape it.

This dilemma leads him to The Vicious Spiral, where he can no longer find the truth or any meaning. The spiral leads him to a complete void. This journey through the spiral kills the man's dreams, ambition, the will to live, and courage. He can no longer be his own friend. And no one on this planet can save, nor can he save himself. He dies, only to die again later, hardly at all.
After realizing why he is in that state, he can be reborn by doing one very simple, but very difficult thing: to surrender.

The man finally realizes that resistance towards the cycle and the attachment towards the cycle had made him a prisoner. By surrendering, he gives up trying to control both the cycle and himself to letting things take their course.

It was the mistake of that man that created the cycle and the ignorance of that man that created the spiral. The mistake he made was just how humans are brainwashed into thinking in terms of right or wrong and good or evil. Perhaps it was not a mistake but his fate. This fate might have tormented him to the point of self-destruction. But all of this just to come to the conclusion that freedom and peace come only through surrender—by allowing the natural flow of life and by accepting what cannot be changed.

The man created the cycle only to free himself, and He created the suffering only to end it. But this cycle let him realize the most fundamental rule of a peaceful life.


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