It Takes A Contemplative Life To Realise The Truth

We cannot realise our true essence or compassion from a book or a chat. 

Realisation is difficult to talk about as people usually want an immediate answer. Much depends on the quality of personal experience; it takes time to contemplate what is real, and what isn’t.

A contemplative life is beneficial to be able to realise and rest in pure awareness where life is no longer frantic, panicked, or intellectual. A contemplative life is one where everything goes at a natural pace, and we’re no longer excited by gossip, personal theories or intellectualisations – the creators of illusion.

Everything in the world is exaggerated, so there’s no time or space to truly reflect. We get lost in the acquisition of groupthink. Spiritual communities are just the start of our journey, but then we must go alone before we become caught up in conformity and cannot change – and probably don’t want to, as we feel safer in a group.

Spontaneity is a matter of trusting in the moment for inspiration; if there is none, it’s probably not needed. Everything is okay within world madness. It’s all cause and effect. We know why things happen and how, and we cannot change this – even a Buddha can’t do that.

In a contemplative life, there isn’t much talking. 

The disappointing aspect of talking is that the other person has usually switched off halfway through a sentence as their mind’s gone into referral mode and they’ve stopped listening. Talking to others is like talking to a memory box. 🙂

The contemplative aspect of writing
is that people have to take time to consider whether they agree or not.
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