This Fragile Life

Our lives are so fragile. We think that what we think is real, and then we we get around to experiencing it, we find that those were just thoughts, and this here is the experience of reality - two totally different things.

Life is just an illusion of all those thoughts we put together. We think this or we think that, we think this thing will work out, or that thing won't, that this person is close, that that person is on a trip, that this is good and that is bad, that we know one thing, and it's not the other, and they are all just thoughts, our own conjecture, our piece by piece explanation of reality as we would like it.

The more we believe in this illusion, the tougher it gets to experience what is really going on. We want to believe something, therefore we think it basically into existence by creating the whole fantasy around it. Boy - does that crash hard, too. Here we've been thinking everything out - this person is this, that situation is that, everything is this, that or the other, and on it goes that fine painting of the fantasy, and then, pop! A teensy tiny air bubble happens and it all explodes into absolute nothingness.

The bigger question is how to get away from illusion and into the midst of reality. Presence. presence. Presence. presence. Presence. here are some useful tools:

1. Meditate.
2. Learn to be able to suspend thought.
3. Practice suspending thought.
4. Take 3 minutes every hour to:
Stop. Breathe. Suspend your thoughts. Feel what you feel.

And then learn to take that with you into the midst of rockin' and rollin' life, life with its messy spills, and its blissful glances at utter beauty, and its painful moments, and its ROTFLOL moments, and its everything - learn to suspend your thought for at least a part of every moment so that you have the opportunity to actually feel that moment. Then you can take it and dissect it and analyze it and think about it as much as you want - just so that you can separate your thought from the reality of experience, just so that you can remember that the experience was the reality, and your thoughts about it, just illusion.

Life only becomes fragile when we let the thought of it overtake the experience of it.
Carpe diem.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop