Transience comes in all forms, shapes, forms and fashions. There is the egoic nature that we all undergo to some or the other extent; that to a large extent we control the narrative of our lives with our own, fantasies and fantasies about ourselves and others. When did the ego our true nature become such a struggle?
Without realising it, we live from literally directly out of our true centre where we are all connected in such a way that we fall into pleasures and passions generallyPleasures that do not cost the soul anything. The soul is given such pleasures as a drawback to an stalked hi-ucleus, a existential drink that counter-acts any propensity to become a drunkard. Now, that is very Zen…
Most of the time we live our lives as un-experiential, subjective projections of what is to us an unpredictable reality. In other words, we are caught in the era and time of the ego, and this in a freedom that is only safe and valid in our projections, because the projections that are free of the egoic mind, will not be subjective and, therefore, so binding that it all falls into the act of living itself, the moment by moment experience. In other words, the ego is a trickster.
For one who has never seen this mind, the ego, the tricky machine, the cheeky persona that says yes, wellbeing comes implicitly from the already situated confidence andmpPTa nic straightforwardness of perception. Are we happy? If we are, great, but if we are not, how does this miserable ego lead me to another moment of wellbeing?
How many times do we say, persons who x,y,z and y,y, create value, consequences and expectations that do not bind? How many times have we said or have we said previously, that I must live in the world of x,y,z (or y,y,z) and that I must then do what they ask? All this way of living is on the surface, and in effect, our minds seeking to live everything in a different time and place by projecting our opinions of another to the present moment, not only customarily but as a requirement.
But ultimately, what is it that leads me to break free from meaningless projections? I suggest that is the purpose of any battle, and of all battles, which is the striving for the soul; to experience something beyond ego and do it in the moment so thatour true nature becomes known, and we are free in our experience.
The act of living consciously is the only answer; to know, not only our individual Soul-but that of humanity as a whole and of all humanity at-one and the same time.
To begin with, don’t we know this world, our personality and our thoughts, and we know how we think and what we are? Then why do we constantly suppress our true selves by the constant threat and pendulum effect from the outward indulgences and funny eyes and demands and all that, which starts and finishes here and now?
I personally view myself as a sort of Zen priest in an order that has the name of Zen or Zen Buddhism, and yet most people, even in Northern Japan, I will give a close eye to, and this saying is true about all cultures worldwide, even those that the West considers to not really exist; amongst many species of similarly distinguished but very distinct similarly related life forms, according to the work of the early Greek orators and by then, quite a few of the many criticisms of otherFFneya of the American Indians. So we CAN keep ouranthusi as Zen priest/teacher, because we can access it.
My experience has taught me that the very minute we ‘say’ and contribute to others that we are in a state of non-attachment, the minute we become genuine teachers, our hearts open, the deflated ego empties, the energy and passion in the world that follows naturally, and our spiritual nature is put into practice. As we give more and more classes on a daily basis, our own ego gradually becomes detached, and we end up being people that are in tune with our own inner collective or rather the collective that connects us with everyone else, and at the same time that connects us with the universe. As this happens, all of life’s benefits come to pass, for then there is nothing to avoid or fight, nothing to prove or defend. The path of least resistance and the path of least resistance are really one and the same, because the whole dynamic of humanity as a whole is one on one with each other.
I will not lay burden on my readers here as I know there are so many who have ‘trust issues’ and would go mad from the very idea, as I am making a rather bold statement.
