Humans go through constant change
We struggle
We fear the unknown
We live with physical and mental pain
And we conjure unnecessary drama.
Most of us know deep down that our lack of self-control is a symptom of an external reality created by an utterly confused and untamed mind.
And that the unnecessary drama being created in our lives is our ego's attempt to either retain control of the self... or to maintain control over someone else.
We constantly ask the primordial questions...
Who are we?
Why are we here?
We tend to question ourselves ad nauseam and for some,
the lack of knowing the higher self inevitability becomes self-inflicted abject poverty deep within the soul.
It takes away our creativity
and ceaselessly follows us without end... unless we change the way we think and behave.
Once we accept the fact that we are the creators of our reality
And that our fear only feeds the beast.
We are then able to see that the seed of the Omnipotent resides within us all and we are here to learn how to create a better world.
We are here to make our days symphonies of melodic tones, paint our lives with rich colors, sing to others in poetic verse, share our vast differences and our gifts to make a better world.
No matter your situation in this life, by taping into the wonders of you and escaping the unhappiness of a life not being truly lived, you will leap forward.
By using mind over matter, you will create wondrous things and you will ascend into a higher plane of existence,
a place where peace and happiness allows you to thrive as the creator intended.
In turn those around you also thrive because this positive aspect cannot help but take root and grow.
This saying, attributed to the Buddha, tells us how we can manifest a better world...
"We are what we think. All that we are... arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
Enjoy your life moment by moment and remember that your human struggles are surmountable.
I can tell you from experience, that worry makes you lose control of healthy resilient ways of coping and creates a depressive outlook on life in general.
It makes hope look like a foreign concept and you are lost in an unhealthy mind, feeling victimized.... this state of mind allows the negative aspect to suffocate you, making rational thinking next to impossible.
However, expelling fear opens the mind to a better understanding, that change and obstacles are inevitable facts of life that we must face.
By allowing a natural flow of positive thinking into your heart and mind will help in strengthen your resolve, it will help open the door to accepting inevitable challenges in a present, and calm way.
Hope comes to us through an opened heart and through an opened mind, this is how you will gain clarity, and you will begin seeing easier ways around any obstacle.
What is utterly amazing about this open and free way of looking at this human existence is that you will learn that you are not alone
and that help comes when you least expect it, and need it the most.
We are blessed with a strong interconnectedness with all sentient beings,
Our blessings in life come back to us when we do for others without agendas and alterior motives.
Our gifts are passed on, and a cycle of generosity and compassion is generated.
Just be aware, that the negative aspect is our greatest teacher, our struggles and suffering are what we all have in common.
So ride the wave of this knowledge and never lose hope for a brighter tomorrow.
Keep a strong open heart
Learn compassion
Love unconditionally
Tame your ego
Let go of the materialistic world
Step out of confusion, frustration, and fear—and into the space of heartful awareness.
Rae Ronquillo ©
For guidance in this existance look for the Buddha's discourse on the "Three Marks of Existence";
the three characteristics (Pali: tilakkhaṇa; Sanskrit: trilakṣaṇa) shared by all sentient beings, namely "impermanence" (anicca), "dissatisfaction or suffering" (dukkha), and "non-self" (anattā). These three characteristics are mentioned in verses 277, 278 and 279 of the Dhammapada.
Change or impermanence is an essential characteristic of all phenomenal existence. We cannot say of anything, animate or inanimate, organic or inorganic, "this is lasting"; for even while we are saying this, it is undergoing change. All is fleeting; the beauty of flowers, the bird's melody, the bee's hum, and a sunset's glory. (ref.2) There are three types of teachers, the first one teaches that the ego or the self is real now as well as in the future (here and hereafter); the second one teaches that the ego is real only in this life, not in the future; the third one teaches that the concept of an ego is an illusion: it is not real either in this life or in the hereafter. The first one is the eternalist (sassatavaadi); the second one is the annihilationist (ucchedavaadi); the third one is the Buddha who teaches the middle way of avoiding the extremes of eternalism and annihilationism.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
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