The best investment that you can make is to invest in your livelihood. Forget about the self and all these things.
Friday, May 1, 2020
Our misery
Let us ask the question about why are we working?
Living life in society results in expenses. If these expenses cannot be met on your own, you need to live on charity of others. If you cannot meet these expenses nor live on the charity of others, you move into raw survival mode and are forced to live by the law of the jungle. Then it comes down only to your ability to survive anyhow. For this, you need to be free from disease and ill health.
Unfortunately, if you are not able to meet expenses through yourself or the charity of others and you are in ill health, either physical or mental, death will meet up with you. And then you are free.
Ill health results from disturbance of balance. To come back to balance, that which is causing imbalance needs to be destroyed. Generally, if you are balanced and well, you will survive, but not indefinitely.
Eventually, you will be free from it all. Death is the great liberator.
Ultimately nothing matters, so don't worry.
All that we have is the suffering of our own thoughts, experiences, fears, sorrows and miseries.
Living life in society results in expenses. If these expenses cannot be met on your own, you need to live on charity of others. If you cannot meet these expenses nor live on the charity of others, you move into raw survival mode and are forced to live by the law of the jungle. Then it comes down only to your ability to survive anyhow. For this, you need to be free from disease and ill health.
Unfortunately, if you are not able to meet expenses through yourself or the charity of others and you are in ill health, either physical or mental, death will meet up with you. And then you are free.
Ill health results from disturbance of balance. To come back to balance, that which is causing imbalance needs to be destroyed. Generally, if you are balanced and well, you will survive, but not indefinitely.
Eventually, you will be free from it all. Death is the great liberator.
Ultimately nothing matters, so don't worry.
All that we have is the suffering of our own thoughts, experiences, fears, sorrows and miseries.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
The fundamental knowing
The fundamental fact, that lies behind all other facts, is that I exist and I know that I exist. This comes before all else. Before even considering that which is around you, the first consideration is of your own existence. Nothing is more fundamental. I exist and know that I exist.
This existence of myself and the knowing of it is effortless. It is the only effortless understanding. To know something other than yourself requires some thought/fabrication and hence some effort.
To remain in the effortless knowing of yourself is to just be yourself. You know yourself because you are yourself. It is a knowledge through being. To know something other than yourself is knowledge without being the other thing.
So, self knowing is the fundamental knowing.
This existence of myself and the knowing of it is effortless. It is the only effortless understanding. To know something other than yourself requires some thought/fabrication and hence some effort.
To remain in the effortless knowing of yourself is to just be yourself. You know yourself because you are yourself. It is a knowledge through being. To know something other than yourself is knowledge without being the other thing.
So, self knowing is the fundamental knowing.
Friday, April 24, 2020
On pleasure and pain
Pleasure and pain, both end in emptiness.
And emptiness begins and ends in itself.
And emptiness begins and ends in itself.
The source
The stillness of knowing mind.
And the dynamism of outward expression.
Are both rooted in the same source.
And that source is right here this very moment.
And the dynamism of outward expression.
Are both rooted in the same source.
And that source is right here this very moment.
Friday, April 17, 2020
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