Don’t worry – Be happy – Be content.

 Of course this is easier said than done, but on analysis the answer is right under our nose. We have a difficult-to-achieve human body with faculties, and we are sitting by a computer, able to read and understand. We have a roof over our head, clothing and food. And, in small ways, we are able to help others. Above all, we are aware of awareness, when it is pointed out. This means we know how it feels to be caught up in the world, and can know our true nature. In our heart of hearts, we have empathy and compassion …although it is not always easy to manifest 😉

 We are facing in the right direction. Be happy, be content with that. Enlightenment takes time and familiarisation.

 Of course, unfortunate things do happen: the body becomes ill, the computer isn’t fast enough, we need more time, corporations keep mucking about with the food, but through all this, we still have that unchanging awareness. Sentient beings are suffering throughout the universes because of the choices they made – we all make mistakes. This is the lot of every sentient creature in samsara.

Of course things are not perfect. Things never will be – they are impermanent. One could say, “Things are perfect in their impermanence, as nothing lasts.” The beauty of a flower is seeing its various stages! If it stayed fixed, we probably would not notice it.

Our spiritual journey is realising happiness within suffering – absolute reality in relative reality. Then, we start to realise that everything is perfect, although it may not be to our taste. It is precisely because things are not to our taste that we suffer. If we hit our finger with a hammer it will hurt…the finger, not the awareness! We want it perfect, when it is perfect already, in realising one taste – pure unconditional awareness.

Some days are smooth, some days are rough. Sometimes the mind is agitated, and sometimes it’s dull – one taste is recognising throughout all this, pure uncontaminated awareness. It is always perfect…in an imperfect world.

Not everyone will agree with us.
Be happy and content in your own understanding.
The more we see, the more we see.
The more we experience, the more we experience.

Due to different capacities
not everyone will see what you see
and experience what you experience.

 Non aggression is recognising
happiness and contentment.
We are not going to change the world.
All we can do is recognise our perfect selves
in our imperfect selves –
and that’s perfect.

This is the unity of the two truths.

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