Expectation and attachment are the worst enemies of man.
These two simple words keep humanity trapped in a place of anxiety, fear and worry.
Fear can only exist if you have an expectation and an emotional attachment to an outcome either happening or not happening.
In Earth society expectation and attachments are actively promoted and humanity is encouraged to adopt these as part of its psyche.
Humanity is conditioned to chase after this and to chase after that.
Humanity is conditioned to form emotional attachments to many different things.
Yet the cost is great.
The cost is humanity suffers and its inner peace is now gone.
Whenever you "expect" an outcome to happen or not happen - and it either does happen, or doesn't happen, or doesn't happen quickly enough, anxiety, fear and worry is created within your mental body and your emotional body.
You then feel disappointment, anger, frustration, inner turmoil and suffering.
Your inner peace is now gone.
It is not the outcome that stole your peace - it is your decision to have expectations and emotional attachments to a specific outcome that stole your inner peace.
Humanity says it wants inner peace and happiness all the time, yet its actions and its decisions prove it does not.
Every time humanity has another expectation and emotional attachment believing this will bring happiness, humanity chooses to go further away from its center of peace.
Every soul on Earth is a spiritual being.
Its natural state is inner peace.
This inner peace can only be taken from you if you choose to give it away by your decision to create further expectations and emotional attachment in your life.
These expectations and emotional attachments can be to anything - a job, a person, a car, a house, an outcome, etc.
It does not matter what you are expecting or attaching yourself to.
Humanity is conditioned to chase after this and to chase after that.
Humanity is conditioned to believe that it is not enough, that it needs something outside of itself to give it greater peace and prosperity.
It is like the child at the fair who believes its life will be enhanced if it gets to eat candy floss.
Yet after the child has finished its candy floss, it usually feels sick, and that is because the child has chosen to ingest sugary poison into its body.
Its inner peace is now temporarily lost until its body can dispel the poison.
Consider your own life and the times you lost your own inner peace and experienced anxiety, fear or worry.
Make a list of these times and write down the expectations and emotional attachments you had.
If you look closely, you will see that it was your expectations and emotional attachments that robbed you of your inner peace, not the experience itself! Having expectations and emotional attachments sounds innocent enough and that is because more than 99% of humanity is doing it and are encouraged to do it.
The apple given to Snow White by her wicked stepmother seemed innocent enough too, yet it was laced with poison that made her sick.
The question is: do you want to remain sick for the rest of your life? Expectation and attachment is the consciousness of the mind of Anti-Buddha.
Buddhahood or the Buddha Mind is the consciousness or state of mind where you realize you are enough as you are - that your natural state is inner peace.
Buddhahood is a process of detaching yourself from all expectations and emotional attachments and achieving non attachment, to protect your natural state of inner peace from being stolen and taken from you.
It is this simple.
You do not need to become a Buddhist Monk and live in a cave or a monastery.
You do not need to remove yourself from society or the world.
You simply need to safeguard your natural state of inner peace and remove all expectation, all attachments.