So What!!

An interesting idea came to me regarding this whole idea of happiness as opposed to unhappiness. Do we assume that it is man's/woman's divine right to be happy? Did we pick this idea up from somewhere and assume it to be true? Because my personal experiences of life have taught me that this is not the case. It seems to me that men and women are continuously under the whip in one way or the other. We don't have to look too far to see that the human race has been under extreme pressure from the beginning of time. Whether battling mother nature to find a secure way to live in times gone, by or being made redundant through no fault of our own in our modern consumerist culture, it ain't easy.

It seems to me at this point that the idea of peace in general is a fallacy and it is not without hard work that peace is somehow maintained on a personal and global scale. You may argue with this point, and good I'm glad, but what I am trying to get at is the idea that life somehow 'should' be easier that it actually is and that somehow we all fall below the mark when it comes to 'getting on in life'. We fall below the 'ideals' perpetrated on us from where?

We seem to place high regard on those that 'seem' to have made it in some way, even in the so-called 'spiritual world' we pedestal people and hero worship those that 'seem' to have some answer that us mere mortals do not posses. The fact that these super-heroes allow this 'pedestalising' to continue proves to me that all is not well in the garden.

Ah well what can one do? Oh yea I know sit down and breathe in and out through the nose, sit and breathe and turn the attention to the inside and 'see' what is going on between the ears. 'Hmmm that's a bit disconcerting, that makes me feel uncomfortable, oh I like this and I don't like that, oh yea and what about . . . . . .?' And so it goes, the lovely little thought processes churning through the mind. 'Hmmmm I need to relax a bit here my shoulders are aching, oh my back hurts, ok keep breathing.' And on and on it goes, until the larger mind comes into perspective and 'we' actually 'see' these thoughts for what they are, nothing but outworn software programmes, the programmes are now running the computer, what happened to the 'master programmer'?

It is my experience that if you are looking for something there will always be someone that will be very willing to give it to you and in large doses and, take your hard earned money at the same time, nothing is free after all is it? Well you could always sit down on the floor or wherever else you choose to sit and look into the nature of your own thinking mind, but that definitely is not fun is it? So there's no way we can possibly do that, not when we can go to the local yoga club and give it all to them.

I'm amazed at some of the people that I come across making vast claims of having done this or that workshop and then not being able so sit still for 5 minutes. "Oh yes I've got my little bo-peep diploma from the cranial reflex metamorphic school of shampoo therapy, and I'm a grade three imbecile with honours, I charge £75 per hour." "Oooh that sounds amazing can I book 30 sessions in advance?" " Oh ok in that case I'll give you a 1% discount on that 'cos I'm the generous type my guru told me I was, and he gave me my spiritual name grabitwithbothhandsandrunananda ".

Oops here I go again getting all spiteful . . . . . . .

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