Is everything an anticlimax?

Is everything an anticlimax? Not quite what you are looking for?

Life is like that! We are satisfied for a while (a moment), and then deflation and disappointment sets in.

So, we keep on looking…but not recognising! We have completed what we intended, but may not have recognised our reactions. We may have thought that completing something was the end, but it is only the beginning of the next moment. If we want to hang on to the previous moment, then we’ll just get a blockage in the pipes! No flow.

Life is a series of anticlimaxes. That’s how we move on. Every time we meditate, we are merely recognising, but if we are looking for something more, then we will miss the recognition.

Meditation is recognising; becoming familiar with our true nature. The moment of recognition doesn’t last long. Just relax. Our true nature is still there. If we hold on, we will become uptight through expectation.

Anticlimax is the sign to let go. To take a rest. Reflect. Take time – or a moment – to assimilate

Having written this, I feel an anticlimax coming on! 😉

Two more points to assimilate.
Firstly, if our deluded consciousness spends its life in constant anticlimaxes and disappointments, we could end up in depression, thinking we need antidepressant pills to numb us. We don’t! Anticlimax and depression is just part of conscious life for humans, and pills, alcohol and other drugs – including lifestyle – create more problems. Although emotions and feelings can appear raw, it is only through fully experiencing this rawness that we can address the problem. Covering it up just…covers it up.

Secondly, this moment-to-moment existence is deluded consciousness hanging onto concepts, which fixes a personality, usually for a lifetime(s). One moment of delusion creates the next moment of delusion. This is conventional thinking, and it is this that keeps us in samsara (the vicious cycle of existence).

Everything is constantly changing, but we do not see this: rather, we see everything as permanent, solid entities. We perceive going up stairs as one action, but in reality, there are many steps: we just hold an idea of ‘being upstairs’ which carries us through the action, and we don’t notice the series of steps. We lose mindfulness because of a projection.

We panic about time, and therefore everything seems to speed up – and therefore, we never seem to have enough time! However, time is an illusion that only relates to things that change. On an absolute level, time does not exist. Our being is timeless: it only exists in time because ‘it’ has identified with a body…for a time 😉 !

We fill our lives with distractions,
creating one anticlimax after another.

We have created speed and indulgence,
when we merely need to slow down
to appreciate and enjoy every moment
through mindfulness and awareness.