Humans have a thirst for something. They seek that water everywhere. Always looking for a hose with a never ending supply of water to quench our thirst. The truth is, there is, and never was that hose. Nor will it ever be there. When we find a good connection, what happens? Our thirst is quenched after a while and we seek another hose that will give us the water we need. Nothing ever stays static. Life is a constant flow of change. Changing emotions, changing physical structures. Changing shapes. Changing history, the list is endless.
Suffering occurs when we try to manipulate that change to suit us. When we desire things not to change. When we desire, period. Of course, life is never going to bend to us. Things happen that are beyond our self centred needs. It may well be worth trying to become more universally centred and not so self centred. Not you, I mean everybody.To become the flow. When we are going through whatever it is we are going through we temporarily become the centre of the universe in our own deluded minds. Yet life just is.
Life just is, moment by moment. Any thoughts of the future and any thoughs of the past are just thoughts. Thats all. They are just chemical and electrical impulses in your mind based on whatever belief system you happen to operate. They are not real.
There is no magic to life.
There is no prince charming.
Life is nothing special.
Yet, it is a joy if you allow it to be.
Perhaps, instead of wallowing in whatever it is you are wallowing in, try to look at the wonder of whatever it is. Become curious about pain. Become curious at the workings of emotions. Become curious at life, people, science, the world, the planets, trees, animals, the weather system, the sun, death, change, skin colour, natural climate change the list is endless. It is all life, it all goes on outside of your window.
Life is nothing magical. It has an equal balance of pain and pleasure. It has to. Science dictates so. Things do not work with only a negative or positive.
People try to spend their whole lives avoiding pain at all costs and living in their comfort zones. Living in a comfort zone is delusionment. Living in reality will bring you a certain enlightenment and will reveal thousands of Eureka! moments. Most people are deluded and never really know themselves because they are not brave enough to face the continually empty vast space that is life. Instead they self centredly imagine things to dampen their worst fears that……….we’re all alone.
Accept this fact, and watch yourself suddenly become at ease with things. It takes time to accept and to overcome loneliness, and to see loneliness as nothing more than your thoughts. Chemical. Impulsive. Not reality.
I have said this before and I am saying this again too, but become whole and content on your own first. You can ONLY share something with somebody you so desire if ONLY you have it yourself first. For example, you can only love/know/respect somebody if you love/know/respect yourself first.
So this connection you so desire will only come once you connect with yourself, and you have not yet. Try meditation and looking at Zen philosophy, I think many answers lie in these, but they take a little while to filter through becasue of how we’re conditioned.
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I am sad that I found this somewhere on the web, took the time to copy and paste it into a post, but neglected to write down who said it. So all I can say is that it wasn’t me…
