Pleasure and Pain: The Two Sides of The Same Coin

It's funny and ironic to me that we, as human beings are always trying to accept only one side of this dualistic principle.
     The perpetual search for greater and higher pleasures only brings more pain when we Demand them. The same seems to be true for the Demand of avoiding pain itself...more pain.
     There is a fine road, a line, a way, if you will of navigating the pleasure/pain principle. It seems to require
an inner state of neutrality, and since nothing is constant and 'effort' is also another snare in which to get caught one finds that that it requires a light hearted vigilance that does not sleep. An acceptance and a love that breathes with your surroundings and circumstances, and the ability to allow yourself to fall asleep and wake up a thousand times a day without remorse, and love it for what it is, with a smile on your face is paramount to gleaning any understanding of self.
     I think it's not the 'end' result, as if there was one, that's important, but just the moment to moment, day to day Journey that is crucial. There is only now. The future will come of it's own. "Sufficient unto the day are the concerns thereof..." -Bible (paraphrased).
     "We hold reality in the palm of our hands...not too lose, and not too tight." --Some Zen Somebody

     Some piece to this perplexing aspect of the human experience may lie in the acceptance of reality As It Is, rather than the constant knee jerk reaction of having to change every little thing that we do not like in this or that moment. How much energy is spent on that? How much energy is spent on trying, at great lengths, to avoid pain? What would happen to a person's inner evolution if they came to a Full Stop on manipulating their external reality? What would action then look like? Do we actually Know true Action apart from reaction?


 
Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.

Keeping Our Mine-itis in Check

Sesame Street is an amazing childrens' show. I am astounded at the basic behavioral mores that they are actually able to pass along to our youngsters. Mores that, a lot of the time we 'adults' are Still learning!
     Today, for example, they are teaching the dangers of selfishness and overbearance as an analogical comparison to the behavior of viruses. Genius. A mental virus that takes over and affects behavior in a negative way. That are very successfully showing the limitations that this creates in human behavior! Excellent and so artfully done that it puts an entirely new spin on selfish, controlling behavior! Good Job SS writers!

 Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.

Differing Facets of Oneness

Facets we are on the same Diamond.
     Is it okay that we are not the Same Facet?
     Should we try to become the same as another Facet?
     How long does it take us to realize that we are perfect in our differences? As children we mimicked those around us, seeing others as role models laid out before us. As adults we make our own way having been conditioned by our past. With this conditioning are interwoven our own personal idiosyncratic traits that were imprinted upon our DNA that would be what they have become today regardless of whatever past they would've been strained through.
     So we are what we have become and no, God, or whatever name you want to give to that Force of forces, is not finished with us yet, nor ever will be as long as protons and neutrons are in motion around the nuclei of the atoms of All things. We are in constant motion as Beings within and without, just as is all in our Galaxy that we call Home.
     We are each singing the different notes of the chords of the same song----as it should be.
     "You are the Dancing Molecules of the Light and Music of God, The One of The All That Is" -Ova

 Age comes naturally. You have to work for Wisdom.