Stillness and Respond
At first, this path may seen a bit hopeless. Sometimes the tendencies and habits of lifetime towards becoming and emphasizing yourself as an individual personality are so strong that you feel you should not be that way - you should try to be nobody.
But trying to be nobody is still being somebody. What I'm suggesting is not to become nobody but to realize the Truth of mind. Then you can abide in Truth, where you feel most at ease and peaceful, rather than i this endless round of existence in which you're always seeking to be reborn again.
In all levels of existence, you'll never find contentment. They never satisfy, not even the best of them. The most blissful conditioned states, the Jhanas, are still unsatisfactory for us. The Buddha made it very clear that all forms of human happiness and worldly success are really terribly disappointing because they can only temporarily gratify us. And the moment when that gratification is gone, we are caught in the same process of seeking again to be reborn, to become something else, to find another moment of happiness.
Life become so wearisome.
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11th Jan 2011
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