Tuesday, September 9, 2008

letting life flow

What does it mean to let life flow? Why does it take effort when the point of life is to be effortless? Effortlessness is not to be confused with laziness of course. In that state there is much awareness and there is not exercise of choice or preference of one set of experiences over another. There is acceptance of pain and pleasure with equanimity alike. There is living at the level of intuition and looking peripherally for cues of what feels like the right thing to do, devoid of self interest, for choices we must make. There is awareness that anything that is born out of mind and reasoning can never be fresh since it is born of learned conditioning. When we live life effortlessly we do not strive to repeat experiences to relive pleasures once experienced. We do not have an expectation of what the future should be since all our expectations are born out of images that we conjure up in our limited brains. Lets open up the possibilities…

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