How to just be? Don’t listen, be the listening of any sound. Don’t hear, be the hearing instead. Don’t see, experience the seeing itself. Don’t touch, be the touching. Don’t just taste the food, be the experience of tasting. When we can just be like this, no thoughts are being generated, we just are… It’s a fabulously peaceful experience. That’s our true nature, who we are.
We can’t stand our own company. And the proof of that is that we won’t just sit and do nothing. We must constantly distract ourselves. What are we running from? What are we afraid to discover if we let ourselves just be? What’s going on here? We owe it to ourselves to investigate.
Searching for and finding the meaning of life. Finding purpose in daily living. Facing our obvious fears and discovering, then facing our implicit ones. Understanding why we suffer. Correcting our incorrect thinking patterns. Understanding the futility of being in the rat race. Learning how to be happy and content at will. Understanding why love and loving always work. Are all different and concurrent ways we can truly live. The purpose of living is to discover what true living is all about…
We attribute no intelligence or design to what’s out there, whatever’s outside us. We think we rock, and that we know what’s going on. The opposite is more true. Our present reality is a network of deeply connected and pervasive consciousness. We don’t know what’s going on. And we won’t until we admit our own ignorance and allow Universal Intelligence to guide us into greater Truth. Such guidance becomes more obvious as we get out of our own way. The first step is to admit that we don’t know…
We are all caterpillars resisting and thus ensuring that we not transform into butterflies. Change and transformation is hard and we don’t want any of it. Why change a good thing, right? Wrong, of course, because we’re not really such a ‘good thing’. We’re perennially unhappy creatures who can’t quite get Life. And like kids we cry and throw tantrums endlessly. We know we want something, but have no idea what it is. We’ve gotten many ‘things’ but it hasn’t helped. What to do now? We just need to let go and let Nature take its course. A caterpillar simply transforms into a butterfly, it doesn’t personally know what its undergoing and why…
Doesn’t mean we don’t act. We do act, but from a place of peace, equanimity and poise. Whatever’s happening, just is. Why evaluate, judge and condemn? Why sully the already existing peace of our mind and feel scattered? From this peaceful state Life itself will guide us to the next best action, one that’ll be for the highest good of those involved. Life can be simple, if we let it just be.
We project all meaning in life to people and events out there. A person is good, bad or ugly based entirely on what thoughts we construct of them. Ditto for events. Consequently we’re happy with life according to our thoughts about the people and events that make up life. To be peaceful and equanimous we must drop all judgment, evaluation and comparison of people and events. Just relax and stay calm, Life marches on perfectly well without our condemnation of what’s going on…