The Big Question

Some of us are dealing with fear.
Some of us are dealing with anger.
Some of us are dealing with hurt.

The big question is:
Can I hold presence in the face of this?
Can I watch it without reacting to it?

Who is the watcher?

The Key

We are born.
We live.
We die.
We never possess anything.
We live in a material illusion.
If we believe the illusion, we suffer.
If we realize the nature of the illusion,
We are free.

A Human Life

There is a strong desire to fill every moment with something significant.
I think especially in this culture there is this need to do something important.
But life is mostly a mere matter of simply perceiving.
What if that was enough?
What is a human life?
What is a human life supposed to look like?
What if every life wasn’t measured on some kind of moral or value-driven scale?
What if every life simply was left alone to be what it was?
No more pressure. No more fakery. No more unease. No more anxiety.
Can the mind be free of the one who wants more?
Can the mind be free of the judge who condemns and measures?
Can the mind be free?

Letting Go

A good deal of anxiety comes from internal conflict and contradiction within myself.
When I stop and take a good look within, I find that there is this push-pull taking place—go this way, go that way. Do this, do that.

I'm trying to accomplish multiple thing at once and not doing any of them.
I'm looking to someone to give me advice or direction. Some authority will tell me. Someone else knows better than I do.
This cycle has to be broken to come back to balance.
There's freedom in letting go. 

To do that, first I become aware of the insane pattern. Then I discard it.
The key is in seeing the madness of that pattern. If I think that there's some validity to it, some value to it, then I won't let it go and my mind continuously chews on it and tries to solve the problem.

Letting go doesn't mean giving up.
Letting go is like preparing a garden for planting only the seeds of what you want to flourish.