The type of awareness you speak of is overwhelming for most people. I wonder sometimes if that is a pre-disposition of the human brain or one of 'newer' soul. Or it it is just that opening eyes to the wonders of the universe or endless possibilities means opening eyes to the less than pretty or pleasant as well. Things once seen cannot be unseen.
We are told we are both the inheritors of physical destiny and the creators of such; we are told people get sick and die and that this is the natural order and we are told that we can use our minds to overcome illness and suffering. Both are true. And yet overcoming is harder than submitting.
And we do take it all for granted, until it has been systematically stripped away. For example, pain can take away even the mannerisms people use to express or define themselves. What is left when all the 'habits' and collections of ideas we have chosen are taken away, when we cannot access them anymore? Who is left behind...and how does who is left behind overcome anything?
These are mysteries still, answers only in the individual, patterns unpredictable. But it does seem that gathering seeds of wisdom, compassion, understanding, knowledge, awareness (and so on) is like gathering loved ones to a feast. It fosters warmth, well-being and the continuation of life.
Sometimes it seems the greatest thing we can do in any moment is love. Love something, anything; a blade of grass, the way light refracts across the ceiling, the skin between your toes, the way a word rolls through the mouth, the marvel of touch, another being, all beings, just love...wholly simply with acceptance with compassion calmly fiercely LOVE
It is sometimes a choice to love, and love is something that cannot be taken away (oh the objects of affection can be, but not the capacity or the emotion itself). And some people think we are but addicted to our emotions and habits, so what better to be addicted to than love or its aggregate forms (compassion mercy wisdom and so on)?
Just what came to mind. I know suffering is innate but oh how I want to eradicate and ease it. Let us all just breathe easy and be happy...
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