We set about earnestly to acquire the capacity to let sense impressions, sense memory and recall arise, abide and cease. Whatever experiences we may have, good, bad or terrifying, they cannot be worse than a slow, agonizing, stifling death. We have to remember that such a thing is always possible, and it is never up to us to prevent or weather such an eventuality.

If we are lucky, the pleasant is easy enough to bear. However, relief is an illusion simply because the kind of death described above is always possible. Therefore, when things are difficult, we are bestowed one hope and one hope only. That we may have a restful, peaceful and painless death.

This hope must be our prayer, in good times and bad.

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Exploring the terrain if done with care and concern does away with the need to have to exclude any element that presents itself during our travels! In that way, all effort becomes a journey that sustains itself.

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Even the sun and stars live in bondage, lit up and dying in the chains of cause and effect. Many of us are consumed with the desire for good health. Some introspection and it becomes evident that we control very little of our own bodies and in fact the body is really a burden and the mind endlessly fickle. If we can come upon moments of peace without the usual aspiring or controlling or overcoming, there dawns an inescapable sorrow. That all that we value will be nothing and all that we think is pleasure actually generates unhappiness. And all our striving is at the end of the day really quite pointless.

The buzz words or phrases mentioned celebrate success and effort. A life successfully lived seems a worthwhile aim and we fail to see that all our efforts set up perpetual inadequacy. It really does appear that ‘ordinary’ is the least bondage! A life lived simply and with very little begets an unfettered mind and if we are lucky, peace that depends on very little. Everything else, no matter what popular, conventional rhetoric propounds is just plainly more bondage.

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In just abiding, who abides? Identity is a learnt condition and with its absence, there is no ‘this’ or ‘that’. No seeing, hearing, sensing or feeling. So, no ‘one’ abides, there is just a being. Our logic can be misleading and we might presume it is ‘us’ or ‘them’ or ‘this’ but in abiding without qualification we might start to access a ground that is perfect providence. In it are all eventualities, even the seeking. In being with all eventualities, we learn to want no more than what we just get.

So however we are and whatever there is, we can be at peace. In this equanimity is great strength and the energy for skillful pursuit. Perhaps pain is the summit of acquisition, enabling us to not take recourse even in meaning and sense. The intensity of seeking is greatest with pain and in not wanting its cessation is likely the greatest freedom!

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Loss is thus built into our state of being. It is quite possible that the sense of such attrition is implicit in us. Our drive to live successfully could actually be a fallout of this awareness. The knowledge that reality is but a state of measure and that our proclivities are at best just approximations might be the reason for our becoming. The loss of selfhood is ever present and attachment to our individuality purely a reaction. What we perhaps do not see is that in letting go of this attachment is much greater maneuverability and freedom. The arrival at true value is likely only with this permissiveness. Judged against boundarylessness, all elements of selfhood including form and awareness are impediments. 

Being in the midst of a plethora of phenomena, we cannot help but fortify our perimeters. Gauging our self against everything else, we reinforce delimitation with measure. In doing so we are at the mercy of our own assessments and fail to view what lies outside our considerations. 

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If we can do this every once in a while, we might find a calm that is difficult to attain when we are responding to or acting upon our urges, needs and concerns.

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Measure harbors nothing but measure. If we can try to remember that everything downstream is also modified measure we acquire the ability to view all mental events as background and not signals that we have to process or act upon. When we sit with what is aversive, we can learn to thus see that whatever urges a response as well as the response itself are nothing other than a basal state that needs no intervention.

This frees us to be spontaneously and inclusively at ease. We sense, feel and act knowing that this entire movement is really the canvas, not the content and that it is the canvas that extends. All thought, sense and action while being a state of measure therefore start to extend into what is prior to it.

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Recovery and healing thus become independent of circumstances and in not needing them is true wellness.

Connect with us if you feel you will be better served by exploring the absence of wellness rather than trying to modify whatever you are currently endowed with.

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