This world (RL) invites us, quite surreptitiously, to become mundane, archaic, numb, blind and deaf as a way to survive all the glamour and promises it has to offer. Without knowing, most of us have accepted the invitation. Without awareness, conscious awareness of our senses, moments fly by, days melt from one to the other and one night follows another without any sense of meaning or satisfaction. We spend our time in front of televisions, game boys, sports events, filling our minds with a craziness that feeds on itself and sucks the blood from our numb bodies and minds.
Just as a bank account has a balance, so does the number of our days and spending them in useless, non-conscious ways is the ultimate waste. Our time is precious. What we choose to be aware of matters.
TV programs, soaps, commercials, offers of free trips are not real. They are not life. They don't feed our soul nor do they deepen our relationship to authenticity. Our birthright is wakeful purpose and wonder. The only way to inner satisfaction is conscious awareness...valuable, wakeful experiences.
I wish you wakefulness, conscious awareness of your choices and a deeper sense of self and satisfaction.
Nemaste my friends. I have missed being here. Consciously or unconsiously, life seems to happen while I'm doing other things.
About Me
- Dulcinea
- I am young at heart and become younger with each day that I become less concerned with who the world at large thinks I am or should be and more interested in the inner self, which is very young indeed. There are no taboo subjects in my life. As Walt Whitman said..."I am large and contain many things."
2 comments:
It is with all due respect,that I would like to respond to this entry with an opinion, one that is not meant to incite or cause conflict.
I find it confusing that someone would (assuming unintentionally), dictate how another person or the whole world should find peace and awareness in their own life. It seems to be judgmental that one would insinuate that their own personal experience of finding balance in life should be the rule and measure of how all should live. If a person finds peace in a Gameboy or a television program is it fair or truly possible for someone to say they have not? If a person finds peace and awareness by food deprivation and meditating in a steam lodge, is it fair or possible for anyone else to say they have not? The world I want to live in lets all find peace and balance and the freedom to entertain themselves (without harm to others) in the way that is uniquely their own, without the judgments and criticisms of someone who may not necessarily understand or agree with the methods that work for them.
I must agree with anonymous to a large degree. It is true that people are capable of greater consciousness, but is it right to say that they are wrong or wasting their time if they do not pursue that? Not many are capable of the levels of consciousness employed by those in power, and sometimes understanding that just makes life more difficult. I, personally, seek a greater and greater level of consciousness for my self, but I cannot see that it is wrong for someone to find peace and joy in a gameboy or television, and from my perspective on reality I sometimes wish that I _could_ find peace in those things.
Your thoughts and words ring very true with me personally - to me television is a great waste of potential and time - but I cannot say that it is wrong for everyone.
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