Our personal likes and dislikes create veils, through which we look at our lives. These block our direct view, introducing bias and preference, often adding shades of confusion, conflict and misery to our perceptions. Mostly, we do not see the complete truth and wholeness of life as it is.
Many of the flaws and shortcomings that we perceive in life, are blemishes on our own screen, distorting the way we look at everything. Our journey is to clean and remove the illusions interfering with our views, until we can see clearly, and are aligned with the whole truth of life.
The only way to live in harmony and peace with existence as it is- is to discover a sincere appreciation for the whole reality of what is. Not choosing and rejecting parts of it, or viewing it as separate fragments. Not splitting life into opposing elements of good-bad, beautiful-ugly, pleasant-unpleasant, but looking at it as one whole existence.
Living well, means constantly learning, growing, accepting and embracing life. It is living with total awareness. It is dissolving our individual views from an assumed position of separation and isolation- into an appreciation for the cohesive harmony and balance, inherent in the totality of existence. It is really knowing, living and appreciating the wholeness of life, just as it is.
Life is a dynamic flow of events and circumstances. It does not run smoothly on our plans and schedules, not always meeting our hopes and desires. It occasionally takes us through difficult routes, littered with disappointments and despair, sometimes evoking aversion, fear or resistance.
We can see these as problems to complain about, or as opportunities to grow. Life puts us in various situations, but we can learn valuable lessons from them.
Through every experience in life, we uncover a hidden part of ourselves, by finding something new, letting go of something dispensable, or discovering some previously unknown truth. This clears our vision, helping unfold our maturity and wisdom, to understand the whole truth and reality of life.
Facing unpleasantness in undesirable situations, we often discover- that deep within our innermost being, we can always feel calm, safe and whole. Taking refuge in the awareness looking at all our experiences, we can practice remaining peaceful within our inner core, where nothing from outside can disturb us.
Our journey through life is to learn- to see and listen clearly, being open and accepting towards whatever already is. It is about observing, adapting, adjusting and appreciating, until we come upon the right feeling and attitude, towards the totality of life. Meeting every moment directly, letting go of judgements or resistance and saying ‘yes’ to life as it comes- not picking, choosing, or rejecting parts of our whole experience.
We constantly receive opportunities to continue learning from our mistakes. Life is never in a rush and it always teaches us, whatever we need to understand. We are tossed up and down on its waves, until we are thoroughly rinsed clean, of our personal misunderstandings and ignorance.
We are here, to consciously align ourselves, with the complete truth of whatever life really is. Our journey is to be free, from our illusion of separation and isolation as clueless confused personalities, to knowingly live as the constant being-knowing aware presence, that we really are!
When we look at life directly, from the pure awareness of our inner being, without any screen of automatic habits or biased conditioned thinking- we can see the true beauty and perfection, in the wholeness and totality of life! This wholeness, in essence, is our true nature- and living as this wholeness, is to find true meaning, in our lives in this world.
