Life Is Trying to Teach you
Everyday life unfolds before you. As it unfolds, you are happy when things happen that you want. You are sad when things happen that you don’t want.
How is this fair for you?
The Earth has been here for 4.56 billion years, you’re here for 70-100 if you’re lucky. You came down, and said, “if what i want doesn’t happen, then i refuse to feel happiness”
Life doesn’t know you. It doesnt have a list of your likes and dislikes. How could you take something so beautiful and demand it to bend to your will, or else you block yourself from happiness? And when you get something that makes you happy, you say “if i ever lose this, I will be so unhappy, i better not lose this…”. The anxiety and worry that comes from that statement is very real, and you will live your whole life with that feeling if you don’t change.
So change! Why not? If what you want makes you happy. Then change what you want. Isn’t it you who decides what you like and dislike? Is there anyone else in there?
Say hello in your mind. Now say it louder, “HELLO?”. It’s just you in there, not your dad, not your mom, not your wife, not your husband. Just YOU. You inside there. You see the thoughts and the emotions in there. You sit back behind there. You’re silent. You are the one who sees. You see things, don’t you?
If i was to hold up a vase and ask you, “Is this you?” Youd say no, that’s a vase! What about a clock? Or a pencil? Same thing right? Now what about a thought? Or how about an emotion? I have exciting news, theyre not you either. They are objects. Objects your consciousness is aware of. They are no more you than the vase on the table.
Why is this important? Because as life unfolds, you react not only outside, but inside. You think the two are linked, inextricably. They are both the same. They are objects that consciousness can focus on. They do not define you in any way shape or form. You sit back there, and you identify with them, and you’ve created an ego using the events that unfold. It’s like watching the tv so long that you forget you’re on the couch.
This is so important to spiritual growth and i beg that you understand this. I care for you deeply. You there reading this. Please release yourself from the ego. Practice daily. Let go of things that don’t matter. Honor everything regardless of what it is. Do not spend your life fighting reality. Let life teach you. Don’t resist life, learn to love life. Its the only one you have.