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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Monday, September 26, 2005

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If the mind creates this formation of objects outside oneself, and this naming-forming process is given substance based soley on the experiences of oneself, what is real??

The mind creates these images, which are recorded moments of past experience that it stores. It labels so that things become easily identifiable. And it doesn't just stop at objects, no. It labels emotions as well. Fear, happiness, threat, pleasure. But again, these formations are of the mind, which are limited and restricted based on individual experience. Even our relationships. My relationhip with you is based on the image my mind records and projects of you, through our experiences together. Your relationship with me is based on the image your mind records and projects of me, based on your experiences with me. How can a relationship be formed between images? This is impossible? There can be no relationship between images - images are illusions of the mind. Are our relationships illusionary? Not just those with each other, but on the grand scale of life, with everything? As long as we live within the confines of the mentality-materiality scheme, we continue to live in illusion.

(i think i drank too much flu-relief liquid :-| )

posted by I Am This at 11:44 PM

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Anonymous Anonymous said ... (1:42 PM) : 

Nah, I don't think you did at all (drink too much flu-relief liquid)...

I think that's why finding peace, each individual alone, is the only way to create peace.

I notice that when I'm not defending a belief about 'myself' or an 'idea', that there is no reason to argue, anywhere. So who are we ever arguing with...OURSELVES..

I keep trying to see the illusion of it all and the more I do, the more sense everything makes and the more peaceful it all seems.

Thanks for posting those thoughts, it's comforting to know that others are giving these
topics...REALITY...more thought.

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (10:02 PM) : 

You said 'I think that's why finding peace, each individual alone, is the only way to create peace.'

And this is really a key element to it all. No guru, or spiritual text, or book, or religion or friend or psychologist can tell us how to find this peace.

When we act on the words of another, we are simply slaves to those words, aren't we. We really need to experience this all for ourselves. When we experience this peace within ourselves, there is no need to debate or decide or argue, is there. We can finally just BE.

Thanks anonymous, for sharing your thoughts.

:) Kelly

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (12:47 AM) : 

I agree, wish it wasn't necessary to have to feel so much in order to really 'know'. I'm beginning to see that I have to be willing to give up everything I thought I knew in order for the veil to be lifted.

It seems to entail, the slow and gradual unraveling of the ego. There's nothing to brag about, just a greater satisfaction of having compassion for the greater self...us all.

All the best

 

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