Monthly Archives: February 2013
Extinguish all sadness
I am determined to exterminate all sadness. I shall follow every sad thought to its very core.
I pledge this to my self.
I shall receive any sad thought as a royal visitor, as it is also a thought trying to help me transcend this material life.
I shall not confuse this work with the search for happiness. Happiness is not to be found. It is a fata morgana that only makes you sad. There is absolutely nothing wrong with blissful joy.
Happiness or Joy?
Inscription on buddha figure:
“Joy at last! to know that there is no happiness in the world”
To know there is nothing wrong if i feel sad or cry.
This is to make peace with your self.
To be without judging. To accept your self.
The art of meditation is NOT to get somewhere. It is simply to be.
Let it go
The sense of loss or clinging is everywhere.
When you get up in the morning, you cant let go of the night
When you say goodbye to friends
When you change the TV channel
There is so much freedom in learning to let go of things.
Tip. For a week keep noticing how often you get the feeling of loss. Make a mental meditation when it happens and say to you self; “I let go without the feeling of loss, i embrace the new moment”.
Everytime now that i light an insense stick, i say “i make this offering without the sense of loss”. It is to remind me of all the other losses.
Ask for help
Remember to ask others for help.
Say for instance; “I feel a little challenged today, but i am doing my best. Maybe you could just smile at me, so i know you are ok with it?”
The “I”
The sense of “I” makes sense when a bull shall try to assess if the fight it is about to go into is a plausible victory or not. Only when the opposing bull is the equal size will a fight be a result. All other situations the weaker will realise the outcome without the risk of injury.
At that moment the “I” and “Other” sense becomes so focused.
The rest of our regular lives we do not need to have this “I” feeling. And in a social being like humans it is most destructive.
But in the west we are forced into this sense often. When I question whether I can fulfil the job description, or cope with a project. Or if the lady in front of me is within my powers or I am out of her league. The list is endless.
Meditate on the ways to not active this I sense in the western life.
Re-examine core beliefs
After re-examining core beliefs:
The question of who we are, is bigger then the question on what life is about. But one on who and not what, seems to be more finite in nature.
On initial investigation I can say with certainty that I am not the thoughts in my head. My true nature does not think in terms of logic or words.
In modern terms I would say i am a motherboard in a giant distributed network of computers. I am part of a supercomputer on which runs Karma. I am not the (whole) computer, and yet i have the option to change the software that runs on me. And more importantly I have the ability to change what is running on the neighboring hardware as well. (good deeds and loving kindness). This is vital to understand, because that, by way of next of kin, grants me access to change all software running. Like a benign virus.
Nobody or somebody?
It’s when you fully realize that you are nobody, that you truly start to become someone.
Meditate on the Ego
If everything is empty (and this is the barrier to becoming a real Buddhist) then where is the joy in life, and the sense of purpose?
In this one question I know I will find the reason that all is looking so real in my mind, even though I know it is mostly just my distorted perception.
Our faith in things, as we think they are*, is possibly the foundation for movement**.
*(fata morgana), **(energy directed at changing our unhappy circumstance)
However, choking the ego is NOT choking one self. When choking your ego (that thinks it is you) you are only giving life to your divine being. Don’t be afraid.