We put in a lot of effort in living our life to the best of our abilities. We have our own milestones of how we should live our lives. A robber wants to make a robbery, A normal man wants to be good, as defined by society etc. We live according to some notion of how life must be lived. It is not a spontaneous living. It is a conditioned living, as we learn to live it.
Can we know what should be the only way to live? In fact
there cant be just one way to live. Or else all would have been butchers or all
would be teachers. We may presume that life knows what is living 'as' us and so it is continuously
living itself as people, thereby having a variety of lives being led. There is
no a wrong way or a right way. Since it is unfolding in some way, that's it. It fools around unfolds in a way, so that I am always right
and normally all others could be wrong. There is a justification in thought as
to why and how we lead our lives, the way we lead, either taking credit for how
we live, or blaming our parents or circumstances or others, on how we could
have lived better. The justifications creates an opinion, as if there could be a
choice that was not.
Circumstances decide how our life is lived, more than what
we can design it to be. You are born in a particular family, at a particular
place with a particular intelligence and particular acquaintance. From then on
life becomes a sequence of events, as if negotiating the immediate world around
us. There is a pressure that the world pushes us to be deal with, in a way,
that is always forcing us to seek pleasure and avoid pain. However this could
effect pain to others, at the cost of pleasure to us. It would be like killing
a chicken for a tasty meal. The thought structure that gets formed to condition our thinking process, to evolve a basis of living a life, however right or wrong it would be. We then
fill in explanations to make the wrong a right. Humans are genius in the field
of excuses called explanations .
Very few could be less bothered about the the way unfolding of life happens around them, as if, their role is already being lived by life itself, effortlessly,
as if in the flow of life or being at peace with ‘What is’. There is no
intention there to change the world. There is no fear or anxiety about what
should be versus What is. He may be useless to the society generally, or useful as a teacher or preacher, but he is in awe, about life playing itself out as creation, including playing out as many people.
The truth of what we are, is that, we are not individual
entities at the core of ourselves, even though it feels otherwise. Life lives itself out as if, each of us is an individual entity.
We may feel like entities, because life is living itself in a subject –object format,
to make feel one of the objects of seeing -as if a subject, verses the rest -as
if the objects of that subject. This version of the play of life creates a real feel
of entities. However, there ends the reality of being an individual entity. Its not as simple as we see it to be. It is
simpler than that. We believe that such an entity, has freewill and choice and
has to negotiate the world, in order to live happily. This sense of doership to
the body, is what causes the pain when things do not go as per one’s liking. It
never does, because, all love permanent happiness, that cannot be reality. If unhappiness would never
be there, happiness would have no value or place. So happiness and otherwise
are passing experiences in consciousness, that arise and we could only react to
something that already took place, as if , it is not as per one’s liking. If
only we learn to accept the past as it is and be curious about the future, as
if that also would pass in a manner to be known only as it happens, there would
be less anticipation and less heart burns. To come to that understanding, it is
necessary that one understands his own reality, in the unfolding of life, that
this ‘creation’ offers as a world of objects. We are not individual entities
that we think we are.
We are. That we know. Since we always know, all experiences
that are experienced, we are the knowing of it all. That is all that can be said
to be of us, in reality. The aliveness that knows itself is what we are.
Aliveness lives itself out as this creation, seeming of separation in space and
events in time and the knowing as it’s faculty is what we are. We appear to
contribute, to the unfolding of life, changing the world, as required by us.
But this gesture is life, playing itself out as ‘us’. In knowing this reality
and living this reality, peace could prevail, even when events does not show up
as seemingly ‘happy’.
Learn to analyse what we are at the core of ourselves. It’s
just a body that is living itself through experiencing the expression of the world, including itself
as a part of the world, contributing to the experience of oneself and others. The
body is an expression of life, expressing itself, as if, a sensing body for the
rest of its expressions. Thought adds to justify all experiences as if to be
opined by an individual, thereby creating a sense of separation from the rest
of the world. This is a very light play of life. How else could Life recognise
itself and its expressions. When we see the ultimate dance of life, we will fall
in love with the whole dance, even though it may have its happy moments and its
sad moments as if for an individual ‘me’ .
Life is a dance and ‘you’ are IT as the experiencing of IT. Just allow the experience to flow itself, contributing once in a while to the experience as it happens.
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