I will continue with the chapter summaries of “Why Buddhism is True…”, but today, I wanted to take a little tangent…
…
WHERE do you LIVE?
The thought that keeps coming back to me is…
We all get a chance to LIVE our LIVES…
We all experience sadness, joy and our own human nature…
We all experience WANTING and WISHING…
It’s like we are all served up a buffet of situations, thoughts, CHOICES…
throughout life - and in ever moment…
And, ultimately the most important question may be
WHERE do you LIVE?
I am not talking about where do you LIVE physically…
What is your address?
I mean, where do you live EMOTIONALLY… with respect to harmony?
It’s almost like there are the “HAVE’s”
and the “HAVE NOT’s”…
The neighborhoods on either side of the “tracks”…
the “tracks” that mark the boundaries of what we can control from what we can’t…
Do you live where it’s dark and dangerous…
Do you live where you feel alone?
Where it’s always cloudy and grey…
Do you feel where you struggle to control your own destiny and
react to the whims of the emotions around you?
Do you live in the fear of UNCERTAINTY?
Do you live…
near ENVY,
in ANXIOUSNESS,
right around CONSTANT COMPARISON,
somewhere around GREED,
or REGRET…
in “WISHING” county?
Where you are always wishing for things… missing things… in deficiency?
OR
do you live
where it’s always sunny,
in transparent truth…
Do you live where acceptance is plentiful,
Where it’s quiet enough that you can hear yourself,
Where the bodies of water are such that you can clearly reflect…
Where you feel at peace and safe?
Do you live near ABUNDANCE,
just around the corner from DESIRE,
right in the heart of GRATITUDE?
in the state of “IS” where you can easily visit “WANT” County?
Do you live where you are inspired by OPPORTUNITY for what you want to achieve…?
What if Harmony and Disharmony,
weren’t these amorphous,
hard to understand states of mind or emotions,
states of being…
but actual, physical locations… STATES if you will?
What would they look like?
How would living in one be different than living in the other?
What would the brochures say?
How DO the residents of each look?
Which would you want to befriend and be neighbors with?
you know…
Human beings, we like to explore….
we are constantly wandering and traveling about…
but,
WHERE is home?
Where
do you
COME HOME TO?
after you’ve spent your days
traveling the highways of time,
occasionally slowing down to enjoy a few moments,
visiting wishes
and passing the buildings of regret…
and trying to avoid the showers of anxiety…
getting lost in “fringy” areas where you locked yourself in your car,
wondering who might approach…
trying to control FEAR.
When it’s all said and done…
WHERE
do
you
LIVE?
Where do you WANT to come home to?
Can you see it from you are now?
…
If you are ever lost,
drive straight,
close your eyes and
breathe deep,
embrace the truth of where you are
with gratitude…
Then open your eyes
and turn right onto WANT
and keep steering knowingly
through the moments.
…
It doesn’t matter how far we travel on any given day…
KNOW where you LIVE!
These conversations…
are me
and
you,
finding
our
way
home…
over and over again…
…
in harmony,
Nestor