Let Life Be

Firstly, the Serious Buddhist...

"People naturally fear misfortune and long for good fortune, but if the distinction is carefully studied, misfortune often turns out to be good fortune and good fortune to be misfortune. The wise man learns to meet the changing circumstances of life with an equitable spirit, being neither elated by success nor depressed by failure.

If you are committed to being present, it will happen.

And even if being present is just a state of mind, so what? It's a good, constructive state of mind.

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Are you so busy fighting against life that you have no time left to live it? Are you so worried about what’s going on in your world that you have no energy left to get things done? Do you put so much of your attention into judgment that you fail to notice the real treasures right in from of you?

Let go. Step back. Detach. Free yourself to live. Free yourself to experience. You don’t have to take a reading every millisecond and then pass judgment on what you see. You don’t have to respond to every little shift in the wind.

Take a deep, relaxing breath and remind yourself of who you are. Look at life as it is, and let go of the need to always do something about it. See the beauty that is in even the smallest things.

And feel. Let the feelings come, and then let those feelings go. Don’t be obsessed with predicting or constructing what will come next. Instead, be fully present so you can see and experience and know and gain permanent value from whatever comes along. Enjoy, without always wondering whether or not you should.

Peacefully let life be. Act from a perspective of acceptance and gratitude rather than from a perspective of need and desperation. All is well with now, for you are here to live it with positive purpose.

The Good Mountain Climber

The good mountain climber is slow, meticulous, and in the moment.

Shadow Work with Teal Scott

In this video Teal Scott explains why it is vital to not reject negative emotions.

Quotes by Teal:

"Negative emotions are like the question, and positive emotions are like the answer. So you cannot condemn the question, without condemning the answer at the same time."

"Your fight or flight response is triggered when you don't get enough sleep."

The sum total of negative emotions can be referred to as THE SHADOW.

Orange Moon

Orange moon
What are your secrets?

Very difficult to believe
that your relationship with earth
and the cosmos
is just cold mathematics


Dear night sky
What lies in your mysterious depths?
is it only atoms and protons

How arrogant it is to say

that you are nothing more
than an endless ocean of matter

How arrogant it is to say

that your wondrous beauty
remains vastly observerless

You have been around for billions of years
perhaps you have existed forever

I came from you
How am I alive
if you are not.


Question for the hard core physicalist:

Humans have written songs, poetry on the moon and the night sky for eons. Are they addressing dead matter? Are they fools?