Insanity and sanity

To wish that reality were different is the beginning of insanity.

To completely accept reality is the way back to sanity.

Karaniya Metta sutta

This is what should be done
By one who is skilled in goodness,
And who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
Straightforward and gentle in speech,
Humble and not conceited,
Contented and easily satisfied,
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful,
Not proud or demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
That the wise would later reprove.
Wishing: In gladness and in safety,
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born —
May all beings be at ease!

Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world:
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down
Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.
This is said to be the sublime abiding.
By not holding to fixed views,
The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision,
Being freed from all sense desires,
Is not born again into this world.

Poisonous intentions

To desire misery for others is a poisonous intention.

It poisons and darkens the mind and does not allow light to enter inside.

The fundamental healing is the healing of intention. Heal the intention to cause pain to others.

Instead, desire ease and well being for all. To desire liberation for your enemy is the most healing intention.

Let there be no suffering, even to the most wicked.

Suffering is only a call to awaken. It is only through suffering that evil is transformed.

The Absolute

The Absolute cannot be conscious of itself.
To be conscious of the self is a movement.
Since, there can be no motion in the Absolute, it cannot be conscious of itself.

Consciousness is borrowed from The Absolute, which is itself beyond consciousness.

It is said that the Absolute alone is.

The supreme peace beyond all comprehension.

Boredom

One of the biggest challenges in life is dealing with boredom. Many times, in order to escape the boredom of a mundane life, we seek various thrills, excitements, sex, relationships and even 'enlightenment' which we believe is the permanent cure to this boredom. We are terrified of accepting it and remaining with it. In many ways, our inability of accepting the fundamental boredom of life is responsible for all kinds of perversions. In order to seek escape from boredom, we allow perverse notions to captivate the mind. Indulgence in perverse notions results in downfall.

And yet. There is only this. No escape from truth. It is beyond acceptance and rejection, which is only another game played by the mind.

There is nothing to do to realize this. It is absolute.

Seeking

The very creation of 'the world' is to promote seeking. We experience a void, or a sense of in-completion. And then get trapped up in the seeking mindset, which desires to 'go out' into the world in order to seek that something which will end the sense of in-completion. But the sense of incompletion remains. Hence seeking will not end the sense of incompletion.

Then what to do if not seek? Do the unthinkable...yes, do not seek. Remain as you are. Does the incompletion disappear?

Have I acted right or wrong? Who is to judge? There is only action and consequence. No right or wrong.

The supreme realization

The supreme realization is to not desire things to be other than as they are at this very moment.

To desire things to be different from what they are right now is insanity.

Infact, it is impossible for things to be different from how they are right now.