The notion that wellbeing is free of pain and suffering is inaccurate. How we sense endlessly changes. There is always the possibility that what might be seen as favorable is sensed as painful. This means that as we negotiate our lives, we ought to give equal credence to pain as well as the absence of …
That we view ourselves and everything within and around as marks amenable to modification need not be the sole abstraction to take recourse in. If we consider the absence of delineation when it comes to matters of origin and dissolution, we might be pressed to reevaluate the notions of substance or cause and effect. Cause could …
Certainty isn’t all it’s made out to be. Developing the knack to inhabit the psyche without parameters is more useful than relying on what is familiar. However, heading into the unknown is fueled by what is known. That being said, what is unfamiliar is more information laden than usually apparent. In dealing with uncertainty, we get the …
How we are meant to be is always open to question. However, it is important to remember that affairs never end. What we need to occupy ourselves with ought not to affect our freedom. This freedom includes the willingness to cease and relinquish. To be grateful for our run and to not ask for more. …
Knowing something is often enough. For all our security mongering activities, it might even be appropriate. For instance, when we have hunger, it is proper to know which foodstuff will not harm us. However, when it comes to understanding the effects of our knowledge, mere knowing is probably not enough. The effects of knowledge and …
If we can chart the path of relinquishing grasping at the self, we might be set free. Along this course, it is likely important to see that sense-awareness does not cease. These impressions are the fuel for continual movement. No matter how jarring, disturbing or calming they might be, they are there. The addition into …
In moving towards emancipation, we have to chance beyond the self. It is likely that unpleasant or even aversive happenstance leave a more lasting imprint than what is deemed pleasant. This could be, because with the experience of difficulty, the ‘me’ is identified, recalled and re-established. The elements that constitute the self such as form, …
In the movement from confinement to freedom, we have to learn to let go of all fixedness.
While we cannot know how much insecurity will be thrust upon us, we can take heart in the fact that each one of us suffers and each one of us wants to be happy. It might be important to see this clearly. How we will be and where we will end up is really always …
We choose to assume that the objects we chance upon will fulfill some want or desire. It is doubtful that such a mental state is very wholesome. That is because with expectancy, there is the development of the hope for gain or reward. We might question why such a thing is detrimental to our wellbeing. …
