what if in looking at one's life and circumstance we could keep an open heart, hand and mind. what if we could take an honest look at our circumstance and be willing to see where we might be hindering our own happiness. what if we can see, hear and sense the truth even when we are unwilling to do anything to change it. what if we are given the opportunity every day to fall further and further into ourselves, our intuition, our "voice" and overcome the deceit that resides in the human ego. what if we are able to see that in listening to ourselves.. NOT our thoughts and fears that we could live more abundantly, clearly and happily... what if this kind of LOVE is real.
i'm at a place where there is a lot going on outside myself that is so tempting to believe and yet over and over again i hear this voice telling me to keep doing what i'm doing and be patient for everything is working out for the best. what if there are moments where i am tempted to pull the curtains down to reveal the wizard and yet know in my heart i would be robbing others of their experience and placing myself in fears way. experience, pain and fear have always been my greatest teacher when i refuse to believe any power rests beyond myself for my own peace. by allowing myself and others to lie to ourselves and others about our state of being it has only shown me reward even when it brings chaos of emotion.
if i can live each day for hours with every pervasive thought and fear creeping in and out and watch it, listen to it, not attach to it, watch it move by... i strengthen my internal world which is the only one i really have for true happiness. people, places, things, circumstance... can't change any of it or them but like everything in life they are also always changing. at some point when i place my happiness on other people being a certain way and they change... WHOA! my entire being can be thrown off balance if i'm attached to things being a certain way for me to be at peace and happy. bottom line.. we are ALL HUMAN, no one is perfect and before long the way someone chews their food can hit you as annoying. how can something so little bother us so much if we are at peace and in LOVE with each moment.
today i was lying in the grass for hours by myself.. just noticing all the peace, beauty and intensity that is Nature. realizing the moments i have shared with other humans where our silence, our gazing, our laughter, our soft touches were shared like that of sitting in the presence of the moon. i generate my feelings and connection to all of these moments in life, it isn't something or someone else.. it's inside each of us. we each have the ability to embrace and give our light and love, we each have the awareness to be present for ourselves. if we lie, cheat or steal some part of time or another person we will eventually have to pay for what we have taken. within ourselves and in the end no one gets out alive so why bother with fear and the suffering it creates by trying to chase something that is a natural birthright. LOVE. laughter has helped me so much, in addition to hanging out around lots of different people, lots of different surroundings AND hanging out with me. whether or not society has bullshit standards for what it takes to live a happy life i can be happy being a part in a cog... not just on this planet but realizing i am a part of ALL of it.. each blade of grass, star and piece of sand. humans, so egotistical in thinking happiness can be manipulated to suit us by external means. let life fill us with the searing, burning, awe, confusion and tenderness that are teeny tiny parts of LOVE.
discipleship: first half of chapter
"take a look at the world and see the unhappiness around you and in you. do you know what causes this unhappiness? you will probably say loneliness or oppression or war or hatred or atheism. and you will be wrong. there is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. because of these false beliefs you see the world and yourself in a distorted way. programming is so strong and the pressure of society so intense that you are literally trapped into perceiving the world in this distorted kind of way. there is no way out, because you do not even have a suspicion that your perception is distorted, your thinking is wrong, and your beliefs are false.
look around and see if you can find a single genuiniely happy person- fearless, free from insecurities, anxieties, tensions, worries. you would be lucky if you found one in a hundred thousand. this should lead you to be suspicious of the programming and the beliefs that you and they hold in common. but you have also been programmed not to suspect, not to doubt, just to trust the assumptions that have been put into you by your tradition, your culture, your society, your religion. and if you are not happy, you have been trained to blame yourself, not your programming, not your cultural and inherited ideas and beliefs. what makes it even worse is the fact that most people are so brainwashed that they do not even realize how unhappy they are-like the man in a dream who has no idea he is dreaming.
what are these false beliefs that block you from happiness? here are some examples. first: you cannot be happy without the things that you are attached to and that you consider so precious. false. there is not a single moment in your life when you don't have everything you need to be happy. think of that for a minute. the reason why you are unhappy is because you are focusing on what you do not have rather than on what you have right now.
another belief: happiness is in the future. not true. right here and now you are happy and you do not know it because your false beliefs and your distorted perceptions have got you caught up in fears, anxieties, attachments, conflicts, guilt and a host of games that you are programmed to play. if you would see through this you would realize that you are happy and do not know it.
yet another belief: happiness will come if you manage to change the situation you are in and the people around you. not true. you stupidly squander so much energy trying to rearrange the world. if changing the world is your vocation in life, go right ahead and change it, but do not harbor the illusion that this is going to make you happy. what makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and people around you, but the thinking in your head. as well search for an eagle's nest on the bed of an ocean, as search for the happiness in the world outside of you. so if it is happiness you seek you can stop wasting your energy trying to cure your baldness or build up an attractive body or change your residence or job or community or lifestyle or personality. do you realize you could change every one of these things, you could have the finest looks and the most charming personality and the most pleasant of surroundings and still be unhappy? and deep down you know that this is true but still you waste your effort and energy trying to get what you know cannot make you happy." ~ the way to love.
i'm at a place where there is a lot going on outside myself that is so tempting to believe and yet over and over again i hear this voice telling me to keep doing what i'm doing and be patient for everything is working out for the best. what if there are moments where i am tempted to pull the curtains down to reveal the wizard and yet know in my heart i would be robbing others of their experience and placing myself in fears way. experience, pain and fear have always been my greatest teacher when i refuse to believe any power rests beyond myself for my own peace. by allowing myself and others to lie to ourselves and others about our state of being it has only shown me reward even when it brings chaos of emotion.
if i can live each day for hours with every pervasive thought and fear creeping in and out and watch it, listen to it, not attach to it, watch it move by... i strengthen my internal world which is the only one i really have for true happiness. people, places, things, circumstance... can't change any of it or them but like everything in life they are also always changing. at some point when i place my happiness on other people being a certain way and they change... WHOA! my entire being can be thrown off balance if i'm attached to things being a certain way for me to be at peace and happy. bottom line.. we are ALL HUMAN, no one is perfect and before long the way someone chews their food can hit you as annoying. how can something so little bother us so much if we are at peace and in LOVE with each moment.
today i was lying in the grass for hours by myself.. just noticing all the peace, beauty and intensity that is Nature. realizing the moments i have shared with other humans where our silence, our gazing, our laughter, our soft touches were shared like that of sitting in the presence of the moon. i generate my feelings and connection to all of these moments in life, it isn't something or someone else.. it's inside each of us. we each have the ability to embrace and give our light and love, we each have the awareness to be present for ourselves. if we lie, cheat or steal some part of time or another person we will eventually have to pay for what we have taken. within ourselves and in the end no one gets out alive so why bother with fear and the suffering it creates by trying to chase something that is a natural birthright. LOVE. laughter has helped me so much, in addition to hanging out around lots of different people, lots of different surroundings AND hanging out with me. whether or not society has bullshit standards for what it takes to live a happy life i can be happy being a part in a cog... not just on this planet but realizing i am a part of ALL of it.. each blade of grass, star and piece of sand. humans, so egotistical in thinking happiness can be manipulated to suit us by external means. let life fill us with the searing, burning, awe, confusion and tenderness that are teeny tiny parts of LOVE.
discipleship: first half of chapter
"take a look at the world and see the unhappiness around you and in you. do you know what causes this unhappiness? you will probably say loneliness or oppression or war or hatred or atheism. and you will be wrong. there is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. because of these false beliefs you see the world and yourself in a distorted way. programming is so strong and the pressure of society so intense that you are literally trapped into perceiving the world in this distorted kind of way. there is no way out, because you do not even have a suspicion that your perception is distorted, your thinking is wrong, and your beliefs are false.
look around and see if you can find a single genuiniely happy person- fearless, free from insecurities, anxieties, tensions, worries. you would be lucky if you found one in a hundred thousand. this should lead you to be suspicious of the programming and the beliefs that you and they hold in common. but you have also been programmed not to suspect, not to doubt, just to trust the assumptions that have been put into you by your tradition, your culture, your society, your religion. and if you are not happy, you have been trained to blame yourself, not your programming, not your cultural and inherited ideas and beliefs. what makes it even worse is the fact that most people are so brainwashed that they do not even realize how unhappy they are-like the man in a dream who has no idea he is dreaming.
what are these false beliefs that block you from happiness? here are some examples. first: you cannot be happy without the things that you are attached to and that you consider so precious. false. there is not a single moment in your life when you don't have everything you need to be happy. think of that for a minute. the reason why you are unhappy is because you are focusing on what you do not have rather than on what you have right now.
another belief: happiness is in the future. not true. right here and now you are happy and you do not know it because your false beliefs and your distorted perceptions have got you caught up in fears, anxieties, attachments, conflicts, guilt and a host of games that you are programmed to play. if you would see through this you would realize that you are happy and do not know it.
yet another belief: happiness will come if you manage to change the situation you are in and the people around you. not true. you stupidly squander so much energy trying to rearrange the world. if changing the world is your vocation in life, go right ahead and change it, but do not harbor the illusion that this is going to make you happy. what makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and people around you, but the thinking in your head. as well search for an eagle's nest on the bed of an ocean, as search for the happiness in the world outside of you. so if it is happiness you seek you can stop wasting your energy trying to cure your baldness or build up an attractive body or change your residence or job or community or lifestyle or personality. do you realize you could change every one of these things, you could have the finest looks and the most charming personality and the most pleasant of surroundings and still be unhappy? and deep down you know that this is true but still you waste your effort and energy trying to get what you know cannot make you happy." ~ the way to love.
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