Thursday, July 16, 2009

Deep satisfaction 2

Busy and active as we are, our life should be nicer than it is. Who is satisfied?
Even the most beautiful, young, sexy, rich, educated people we see in the television fiction are loaded with problems, disappointments, suffering, deceit, insecurity, violence, abuse and whatever. This is fiction, but it attracts viewers because it shows an underlying reality.
How many of the observations we make are true? Of all the impulses reaching our eyes, only a fraction makes it to our awareness. Most of the information is blocked by different filters, of which some were relevant some 10 000 years ago.
And the impulses we see are just fragments of form and color which our brain puts together into arbitrary structures which are colored by our own moods of fear, revenge, hostility, unrealistic dreams and all of it is evaluated by the question: is this good for me?
Nevertheless, we have the capacity to react very strongly, and often we compensate our lack of knowledge by resolute action. So worse gets worse.
Everything is not bad, of course.
Our basic life and life ambition is not soiled by the everyday difficulties, and we can return to this pure satisfaction by breaking the stream of thoughts just like that!

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