Self discovery It is a process of self-discovery, a participatory investigation in which you observe your own experiences while participating in them, and as they occur. The practice must be approached with this attitude. From the Buddhist point of view, human beings live in a very peculiar fashion. We view impermanent things as permanent, although everything is changing all around us. The process of change is constant and eternal. As you read these words, your body is ageing. But you pay no attention to that. The newspaper in your hand is decaying. The print is fading and the pages are becoming brittle. The walls around you are ageing. The molecules within those walls are vibrating at an enormous rate, and everything is shifting, going to pieces and dissolving slowly. You pay no attention to that, either. Then one day you look around you. Your body is wrinkled and squeaky and you are hurt. So, you pine for lost youth and you cry when the possessions are gone. Where does this pain come from? It comes from your own inattention. You failed to look closely at life. You failed to observe the constantly shifting flow of the world as it went by…
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:56:18 +0000
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