17 Jun The Way Of The Way 297
People are always funny when they take seriously the meanings and stories their minds create. But what they do to themselves and others when they take themselves seriously is often not funny....
16 Jun The Way Of The Way 296
Life is a comedy. What's funny is that most us take our mind's illusions seriously and react to these illusions as if they are real; like a drunk tilting at windmills. Life is beautiful. When we see the universe with our eyes, not as interpreted by our mind, everything is beautiful; unique, everchanging shapes and colors. Life is happy. When we are grateful for our good fortune (as however dire our circumstances, they could always be worse) and are free from karmic prisons (the generalizations and stories our mind has created that frame our experience of the now), we are happy. Life is eternal. When we love everyone, we treat others no differently than ourselves as our identity is not solely our personal self but also life itself. While each personal life is temporary, life itself is forever and so are we when life is our identity. Life is a beautiful, happy and eternal comedy. When it's not, it's an experience of mind; not life....
15 Jun The Way Of The Way 295
When truly happy, we never feels sad for ourselves. The saddest thing is seeing someone who is sad. What's sad about someone sad is not that they are sad, but that they are selfish which is what keeps them from happiness. That's pitiful. The sad focus on how they feel about their circumstances, oblivious of those less fortunate who would be happy to be in their shoes. If the sad weren't selfish, they would be grateful for their absolute or relative good fortune and in turn happy. Taking seriously and empathizing with those who are sad reinforces and encourages their selfishness. That makes us sad and pitiful....
14 Jun Genesis 1:26
"And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness[.]'" Each of us is a unique god, one of an infinite number of the faces of God. Like God, each of us makes our world in our image, after our likeness. If we don't like our world, we can change it; only by changing our attitude....
13 Jun The Way Of The Way 294
We question the without, though the answer is within. An instructive answer to an initial question comes from the answer to a "responding question" (a question given in response to the initial question). Thus, he who asks the initial question discovers its answer when answering the responding question posed by the one who was asked the initial question. For example, to the metaphysical question of does a rock have consciousness, we can come to know the answer to this question when we try answering a simple responding question: what is a rock?...
12 Jun The Way Of The Way 293
Don't seek from your without what you feel you're without; for all without is within. The colloquial "pursuit of happiness" is a fool's errand as happiness can only be found within....
11 Jun Haiku 18
The light of the moon can guide our way. The light of the sun is the way....
11 Jun Frank Zappa
"What is the ugliest part of your body? Some say you nose, some say your toes but I think it's your mind." The mind is what makes things ugly....
09 Jun The Way Of The Way 292
We can see things beautiful through our eyes and mind. Ugly things can only be seen through our mind....
07 Jun Aristotle
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." In our darkest moments we are dispirited, focusing on ourselves within which there is no visible light. Outside us, visible light is everywhere. Focusing on the light lightens our spirits....