Breaking through the daydreams and fantasy of being unaware.
When we lack knowledge, understanding & awareness we make mistakes. We mistake what appears to be real and true and get ourselves caught in the ever-changing world. Apparent reality is impermanent. Look at your own body. It appeared in the world as an infant. From the very beginning, apparent reality changes.
Even when we make great effort to STOP change, change is inevitable. Our biggest delusion is we do not believe that “ME. MY. MINE. I” actualizes aging, sickness and death. These three signs begin at conception and carry through until the body dies.
Fiha Ma Fiha. It is what it is.
We must remind ourselves that, it is what it is, gives us a succinct understanding of being embodied. We make all sorts of effort to stay alive, to look young, to be strong…yet, in time aging, sickness, and death is inevitable.
In the meantime, what do we do between birth, aging, sickness and death?
There is a wonderful poem by Rumi which is strong medicine and a line that is worth contemplation.
WHO EVER BROUGHT ME HERE WILL HAVE TO TAKE ME HOME.
Short, sweet, clear, and real. Although there are those who make an effort to kill themselves, some succeed, still they have not seen the clarity of Rumi’s statement. They suffer from being frightened of life of living & death of dying.
Most of us want to ignore our situation. Of course, there are those sages who time and time again give us medicine that helps us know, understand & awareness of reality.
Rumi offers us knowledge, understanding and awareness of the human condition. His statement gives us a strong clue. It asks us to rely on THAT which brought us life and THAT which will take us home. Rumi is clear in declaring this life of living is NOT our home. We, however, are conditioned again and again to think, believe and act as though this life is home.
This life is subject to impermanence. All things, persons, objects change and with time and circumstances vanish.
We must remember that even parents are not what brought us to life; they were vessels, vehicles that carried us into the world. It is a temporary gig.
Rumi clarifies his cry by explaining the nature of humankind. We have a form, we taste this existence, we think and intellectualize, we explain our lives through incidents and stories and are forever interested in fulfilling a great variety of desires.
Desire make us drunk, confused, hurt, longing, in an endless seeking for them to pay off fulfilling our wanting.
We get lucky when we begin to clear away the desires, when we recognize our foolish ignorance which led us to wanting to get what we desire.
Desire is the root of suffering. Acceptance of reality is freedom from suffering. Not the reality of dreams, wishes and desires but the reality of acceptance of what comes into the life of living, comes to awaken us.
We feel aimless and lost, we feel fear and lack direction, we fall down again and again. Don’t give up. Aimless, fear, lack of direction, falling down again and again are part of the path to awakening. We are not alone, although we believe we are.
We are ONE, TRUE, SELF. We came from ONE Source which has many names and we will return to ONE Source.
DON’T BE AFRAID. Continue to trust the ONE that brought YOU here - the ONE that will take YOU home. None of us can explain our birth…or our death. We can, however, know, understand and have awareness of suffering which we can change.
It requires we breakthrough ignorance!
Don’t give up. Keep going.
OM
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