Saturday, January 07, 2006

Suffering

Ultimatly it is when we become concerned with the concept of ourselves is it that we start suffering. Though you may have this image of what "you" are, in reality you is only the collaborative fiction of your past that you have created for yourself, and is a convient label for such matters. To imagine yourself as a single entity rather than a peice of the entire universe is when you will start the suffering.

Suffering, pain, hate and anger are all the same as drugs and can be used accordingly. It is easier to feel sorry for yourself for being alone in this world than it is to seek out someone to be with. But of course today, the self pity might in fact bring you the attention of a girl seeking to mend some broken hearted boy or vise versa, but this is completely counter productive. No one can play a card of suffering forever, less you find more and more to suffer about. It is only our desires that cause such suffering.

For example, it is normal to desire a life mate, or a car, or a new baseball glove, whatever, and most people will be able to achieve the mans to procur most of these items through work and dedication, but once we achieve the desired means we ultimatly become unhappy with what we have as that we compare it to those that have a better looking life mate, or a faster car or a shiney autographed glove, it is the eternal unrest with material possesions and lifestyles that will ultimatly cause suffering. Thusly it is important to recognize that this is reality, and this is the one life you are given and you are not given a past or a future for these are only ideas or stories and ideas, only a rapidly changing series of moments in which to live in.

We spend most of our lives trying to live in fast forward, cut through all the boring parts so we can get to the end of the movie that is our life, but at the end, you miss all the character building, plot building, and your left with and ending that makes no sense and your unfufilled. So it is important to stop trying to fast forward our lives and take it slow through what may seem unimportant, as that when it comes down to it, when its your time to leave this world once and for all (some of you may have been fooled into believeing theres an afterlife) your going to wish you hadnt spend so many years staring at a TV or drowning in a bottle of booze with awesome nights of love and comrodery, that you cant remeber so well, or just high sitting there useless ok with all that is wrong with your life.

On another similar note, we often think that if we help OTHERS our own life will be complete, and this is partly true, granted when we have attained a state which we feel fufilled then all that should be left is a desire to help others achive your status, but it is important to take note of your own life first, you can try saving the gorilla mutant bush loving nazi's from burning the rainforest but first, try and just keep your toilet running and your fridge full of sustiance.

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