The place of ego is where we get caught in our everyday wants and desires... "I want a cupcake. I want more chocolate. I want a nice day outside." Our superego passes judgement: "What no cupcakes!!!! What kind of bakery is this anyway? No cupcakes...." Together they form our dance between what we want and what we believe "should" happen in our lives or how our lives "should go." We end up talking and talking to ourselves as though we have numerous different personalities that all have some antiquated value. "Well, a bakery without a cupcake is like a tire shop without tires!" We laugh or suffer based on how we attach to these beliefs. When we identify strongly with our thoughts we suffer the consequences. The consequences most often come in strong or persistent emotion, such as anxiety, fear, sadness, stress and despair. Worse off when we start behaving based on these attachment we can destroy relationships, stay stuck in despair and relinquish ourselves to a life of self declared mediocrity. Worse than that we can just be dead to life and experience tremendous suffering, pain and turmoil and on and on and on.
We can see through our own belief that we hold some sort of ultimate truth in our thoughts. It does not seem to be true that all the answers to how life should be are contained in the mind. There is no perfect bakery that bakes everything everyone wants. There is no perfect way to live our life. There is only life itself and that is where perfection lies. How we engage in it determines the direction it will go. Peace comes from the wisdom to engage in what is already here from the stance of "this is it!" What is in front of me right NOW is reality. What happens in my head is mostly ego, superego and is technically unreal. What happens emotionally is most often tied to what's happening in the head. When we let go of the chatter of the mind and focus on the truth of the moment, the mind tends to be more silent and more helpful. In this state the mind becomes an important tool for creating solutions and seeing through problems. It's the process of discernment... What is real vs what is unreal.
See life as it is moment to moment to moment and embrace it. Go into the moment with your mind, heart and gut free of attachment. See what happens... Oh yes, this is simple and as complicated as you want to make it. This took me 7 years to experience and I have more to go...
We can see through our own belief that we hold some sort of ultimate truth in our thoughts. It does not seem to be true that all the answers to how life should be are contained in the mind. There is no perfect bakery that bakes everything everyone wants. There is no perfect way to live our life. There is only life itself and that is where perfection lies. How we engage in it determines the direction it will go. Peace comes from the wisdom to engage in what is already here from the stance of "this is it!" What is in front of me right NOW is reality. What happens in my head is mostly ego, superego and is technically unreal. What happens emotionally is most often tied to what's happening in the head. When we let go of the chatter of the mind and focus on the truth of the moment, the mind tends to be more silent and more helpful. In this state the mind becomes an important tool for creating solutions and seeing through problems. It's the process of discernment... What is real vs what is unreal.
See life as it is moment to moment to moment and embrace it. Go into the moment with your mind, heart and gut free of attachment. See what happens... Oh yes, this is simple and as complicated as you want to make it. This took me 7 years to experience and I have more to go...
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