If you doubt what I said about us being more like water then rock think what Deepak Chopra says, “Our skin is new every month, our liver every six weeks, and even our brain, with all those valuable cells storing acquired knowledge, changes its content of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen about every twelve months. Day after day, as we inhale and exhale, we give off what were our cells, and take in elements from other organisms to create new cells. All of us are much more like a river than anything frozen in time and space.”
So why do we pretend that everything is a certain way. Why do we pretend that everything is stuck and unchanging?
My way or the highway. Unchecked and without honest feedback from those who know us we tend to be so rigid, so needing to be right, to fight for our limitations, to be boring, defensive, shut down, small, afraid, dead, passionless, heartless, hollow, shallow, fake, does any of this hit home?
No, think again. Think of those who experience you – if they were choosing to be brutally honest wouldn’t they say you’re arrogant, superficial, rigid, traditional, boring, afraid, closed down, dead… what else would they say?
Those are the qualities of buying into the nightmare – not the dream. Getting caught up and forgetting who you truly are… most of us are more afraid of being alive then being dead. We get in our own truest way – feeling strangely superior hiding and defending who we we think we are vs. who we truly are under the layers of masks that seem to be acceptable to ourselves and the people around us.
So today please contemplate what Deepak says – it is profound. You are new. Do you embrace the new? Are you pretending that everything has to be a certain way? Where are you rigid? Where are you in ruts or stuck?
Are you more afraid of being alive then dead? What masks are you wearing? Why?
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Wendy Robbins
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1 Comments:
Hi Wendy,
couldn't agree more with you.
Buddha knew that everything was constantly changing, in fact the only thing that is permanent in our universe/existence is the fact that things will constantly change, every thing else is inpermanent - nothing can be counted on to exist, except all beings on earth are afflicted with the opposite belief, and thus the cycle of suffering, rebirth and searching continutes.
Having the experience to be truly alive without fear, and to understand is what I believe is the message of my life is about - to be.
To experience and understand the hand that life deals you, to take action, to create you destiny, to love and help others and to meditate upon the meaning of true self is of the highest order.
......that being said, lets have a stack of fun as well!!
peace and love,
Pai
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