I’ve been experiencing a lot of mental agitation, frustration, anger, and despair. I am rather idealistic, which means I am attached to an idealized view of what I project reality should be. Wanting reality, conditions, and life to be other than it actuality is sets me up straight away for suffering!
Understanding how seriously I believe in and value opening (my) consciousness to universal true real actual existence, is it possible for me to let go of my relative limitations and reorient my lifestyle relative, personal living acknowledgement of conditionality, function, and actuality? Seriously. May I seek refuge in non-separation, impermanence, and emptiness while managing the conditionality and relativity of daily human social economic survival? And moreover, how can I embrace my wholehearted and mindful intentional orientation toward exposing the universal truth and way of existence in my livelihood? A functional question may be to figure out what my skills, competencies, and deep interests are so that I can embrace, practice, and manifest the natural Way within my work, life, relationships, and survival.
If I could/would take on Gandhi’s challenge to “be the change you want to see in the world” seriously and realistically, then I would choose to elevate universal truth to the collective borrowed consciousness of humanity. There’s some relativistic, subjective David purpose!
September 6, 2011 at 6:01 pm |
Note to self (& others), referencing the Faith in Mind sutra about the smallest being the same as the largest, universality & relativity are too!
September 7, 2011 at 5:49 pm |
Correction: universal truth already exists in collective borrowed consciousness of humanity and has been for millennia! I think it is egotistic of me to think that I would be elevating universal truth in any way at all!
Human life is so confounding to manage with conscious mindful thought-based understanding.
All things are changing, unified, and empty always!