This is enough

Recognize that you are alive and aware right now.

Simply recognize that.

That is All.

Just this is enough.

To be grateful for this alone is enough.

The major challenges facing humanity

Wealth inequality and loneliness are two major challenges facing humanity.

The self

There is a sense of self.

The self seeks its continuity (survival)

Fear drives the self to seek its continuity.

Self = Fear = Survival

Which do you choose?

There are two directions:

One is the direction of self expansion. A complete focus on the self, improving the self, ensuring the long lasting of self and accumulating power and resources for the self.

The other is the direction of truth. A recognition of the temporary nature of self and an acknowledgement of the indivisible reality of which the self is a temporary configuration.

Which one do you choose? Or is there really a choice?

The gist of it all

Really, for us the main issue is suffering and experiencing emotionally undesirable mental states.

Experiencing the 'I' as a separate entity is the crux.

Every interaction in society and family is built upon the foundation of the separate 'I'.

Without the separate 'I' the social construct would not exist. 

Ensuring the persistent continuity of the 'I' is the great burden of social and family interactions.

Recognizing the separate 'I' as a fabrication and not actual reality is key to liberation.

This cannot happen through effort/action/desire. Grace is needed.

Awareness is needed.

The sorrow of life

Living life can lead to accumulated pains, regrets, guilts, shame, despair, helplessness which can turn into grief.

The sense of being a separate solid self can lead to deep sorrow.

And truly, there is nothing that can be done about it.

It is heartbreaking and sad.

Even through in reality there is no solid self, yet the experience of there being one remains.

May grace shine upon all in pain.

The only certainty

The only thing that you need to cultivate in life is the certainty of existence.

The feeling of isness. 

Existence exists. 

This certainty can take you across every situation and tragedy that you might face.