We must let go of the life we have planned, as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Is Life Suffering or Bliss?
Another serendipitous happening from Life, I suppose. I did this video yesterday, when I randomly opened to the question: Is Life suffering or is Life bliss? And I answered it. Was debating if I should put this one up today or another one waiting on my channel related to Karma. Opening up to this video made the choice for me.
So many of us see Life as a great burden we have to carry. ( I wrote a poem about that once...will see if I can find it.) Life isn't a burden...nor is it misery or even bliss really. Those are just adjectives the mind attaches to something that really cannot be adjectivized. Life just is what it is, a very impersonal but amazing process we get to observe, participate in and experience.
Life becomes a burden or misery when we pick it up and call it ours. We listen to the mind, that really knows nothing, when it tells us Life should be a certain way to accommodate our "little me's" agenda. We decide what is right, good and "should be" in Life and pull that in and we decide what is wrong, bad and shouldn't be and push that away. Our hearts become like selectively permeable membranes on a cell ...allowing only so much in and closing to the rest. We spend more of this limited time in these carnations reflecting and resisting life rather than experiencing it. Instead of just allowing all of Life, which knows a heck of a lot more about what is good for us than we will ever know, to come in we try to manipulate, control and get from it only that which we deem as pleasant. Man we live only slithers of a life when we do that.
Our souls are here to expand, grow and evolve not constrict, regress and hide. Surrendering to Life, accepting and allowing what is to be what it is...takes away the burden. It takes away the misery...so we can live the lives we were meant to live...fully and with truth as our ally not our foe.
Hmmm!
All is well.
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( September 18, 2023) Living Your Life without Burden. https://tou.org/talks/
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