Roger's BLOG
Life is real and you are the person
Life doesn't need to be seen as unreal, and the person as an illusion, in order for there to be peace and contentment in daily life, in fact, if that peace is to be unbroken you will have happily settled on life being, in practical terms, entirely real and seen that you have no choice but to live the rest of your life, until physical death comes, as the person.
It is more than enough to see that the beliefs in personal doership and the belief in attachment to outcomes are false and misguided and are the root of all suffering.
Life is a happening.
Happy anniversary dear Ramesh
25 May 1917 - 11 September, 2009
Peace for now
Less personal than we may think
How well, how deeply, does your system recognize that whatever thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions and decisions happen, they are all, every small one of them, quite simply an inevitable outcome of the system's present moment design in relation to the particulars of the circumstance it finds itself in, neither of which were ever in the system's control.
The deeper the recognition of this simple fact the more space, silence, stillness and connection there is inside.
Peace for now
Roger
It's a wavy ocean
When all you can see is the waves you need to be reminded that they are all made of ocean.
When all you can see is the ocean you need to be reminded that the ocean turns into waves.
When you understand the ocean well, you will not be concerned with arguments about ocean or waves, the two will be known to not be two, and yet they are not the same. Descriptions of the two will no longer be seen as contradictions but as complementaries.
Peace for now
Happy Easter
An atheist is only an atheist relative to a specific definition of God.
Always take the other into consideration
If you are always trying to please others you will lose touch with an inner authenticity, however, in making your choices why not always keep the other in mind and take their preferences into consideration.
Peace for now
The jewel in the crown
The flow of life is always going to be unpredictable and changing, sometimes pleasurable and sometimes painful. On the other hand, our attitude towards what happens in the flow of life can be something much more consistent. Peace of mind is always attitudinal and not circumstantial, in time we'll realize that unwavering peace of mind has always been the jewel in the crown.
It doesn't just happen
Become familiar with the five broad categories of suffering, and intimately understand the ground on which they all stand.
Only then will you be able to meaningfully call them out for what they are when they come out to play.
The ground on which all suffering stands is misunderstanding. And as this misunderstanding is repeatedly, called out, it inevitably starts to get undermined.
What you are then left with when the undermining is total, is a landscape free of suffering. This is synonymous with peace of mind in daily living, the happiness that wisdom teachings have been pointing at for thousands of years.
Peace for now
Roger
Before and next
What happens immediately before determines what happens next.
Be interested
Be interested, repeatedly, of simply knowing the experience of what it is to be alive.
A result
🔱 You, and your experience, in this moment, and in every moment, are a result 🔱