Start honoring and respecting that the moment in front of you has the right to be the way it is.
Michael A. Singer
You having a good time in your life? Are you experiencing the thrill of being alive on this planet that Singer often refers to as "God's idea of Disney World". Some would answer, "Not really." and others might say, "Yeah sure...I enjoy it sometimes...when things work out the way I want them to." And most of us would agree that that is perfectly normal and okay: to live by a state of conditional happiness depending on what Life dishes out. If we get what we have decided is what we want and remain free of those things or experiences we decided we don't want...Life is a magical ride. Right? If, however, we don't get what we want (or get it and lose it)...or if we are bombarded by all the things we don't want...it is expected and normal that we "can't" enjoy being alive and that we get pretty P &^%$ ed off that Life is being such a jerk? Right?
That is how most of us operate. Yet, it is also why most of us are so miserable or at least not enjoying every moment we are alive. It isn't Life that is the problem. Life is just doing what Life does...based on the milion moments and million events and forces that lead it exactly where it is as it unfolds in front of us. Few or any of the reasons things are the way they are, have anything to do with us. (Life isn't designed to please us.) It is our preferences, our desires, our aversions, our ideas of how it should be that is the problem. You get that right?
Wanting this moment right here and right now to be anything other than what it is...is a waste of precious life energy. First of all, it isn't going to be anything other than what it is. Secondly, denying its reality by attempting to push away or grasp at other moments is resistance. Resistance leads to suppression and repression which leads to more samskaras and blockages( stuffing) that prevent the joy inside you from flowing. It isn't what Life is giving you that is the problem...it is your resistance of it, that is.
Instead of resisting and demanding Life be something other than what it is, ( believe me...it won't be quick to oblige lol) we need to start finding our joy right here and right now, with whatever is unfolding. We need to let go of our desires and aversions and see the magic and beauty in all of it: 10,000 joys as well as the 10,000 sorrows.
Joy comes from within...we need to open up to it by not closing to what Life is giving us to observe and experience.
Hmm! I don't know about you but I want to enjoy, not suffer through, the remaining years I have on this planet!
All is well.
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( July 27, 2023) Enjoying Your Time on Earth. https://tou.org/talks/
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