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Most precious treasures

My desire to share what is in me has burst open for a while now. I’ll somehow verbalize it. Some of the lessons that I apply most frequently or the experiences that opened me up the most are: 1) Whatever situation I may face, it can feel as normal, expected or unavoidable that I react in a certain manner to it (sadness, anger, fear, guilt, lust, envy, shame, superiority). Or I may not even be aware a different response is possible. What helps is to, without any expectation, start opening myself to ways of being that defy what my limited logic can grasp. Or to start noticing that thinking might be interesting and engaging, but it can get tiring to use it to determine something complex or it may even mislead me. When I react a certain way it’s as if I am telling the world I'm certain that I’ve analyzed the situation and that’s the proper response. But I notice more and more than my capacities (to, for example, analyze how to react) are extremely limited. 2) Living each moment as if i...