Our experience of life is directly proportional to the depth of our awareness or understanding. Awareness is Unlimited and can be accessed more with a calm mind (we all know how to calm our minds). Calmer it is, the more we’re aware of the source of happenings. To raise awareness is the only way to a more fulfilling, blissful, knowledge-filled life. And, we humans are extremely privileged to be able to do that on our own. We are directly in charge of our suffering (or lack of it). The lessening of suffering happens gradually but surely if we work consistently towards exploring ourselves within.
Imagine this, a cat or a dog has no way to lessen it’s suffering on its own. It can only do so if we lend them a helping hand. Can this be said about us? Some will say yes, most of us are like cats and dogs at the mercy of others like family members, society, government, situation etc. But some humans are free of all those mental constructs, though the same cannot be said about cats and dogs.
Now, most would say, leaving the social structure is not possible. Well, nobody needs to leave it to be free. One can stay within and still remain free. Here’s the thing, what I said sounds alien, this talk. No way one can be free amidst this chaos, that is the normal thought that comes out when we hear this. This is because most of us consider our physical and emotional understanding to be our only reality, our experiences are based out of those parameters. Those two parameters occassionally do provide tremendous amount of positives. But in doing so it deludes us into believing that they are the only parameters of reality so much so that we refuse to even acknowledge, let alone explore if there’s anything beyond them. Thus, slowly as we hold on to only the two parameters that I just mentioned, we start forming more and more experiences of suffering.
Now, why do we form more experiences of suffering and not joy? Well, it is because we go chasing joy like a dog chasing a bone instead of acknowledging/feeling it all around us. But this chase and the reason behind forming of experience is another vast topic which I will try to cover some other time.
Today though, I’d just say one thing before I conclude this, otherwise this write-up will become long and boring. We are a being with Infinite amount of depth within us. That is our strength. That also gives us the chance to explore the different realities within us as we go deeper beyond our emotional and visual constructs of reality. Our day to day life also becomes easier as a result because it gives us more awareness to understand the various causes of challenges we face. 🙏