Elements of Presence – Within
A wise man knows that peace is every person’s greatest personal achievement. From what is now known about life, biology, inner experience and the nature of the universe, I can assert and confirm that all of you can live your lives lit up from within. The light of life is in all of you, and when you look deeply enough into that light, you embody it. The master you seek is the life within you. Look! The internal master’s sole agenda is to unconditionally care for you through all your dramas and traumas. That master never steers you wrong.
Live in harmony with the inner master. It’s the best way to live. You radiate light and peace all at the same time. Feeling whole, fulfilled and cared for comes from living lit up from within. You feel so real and rich that it becomes easy to live in harmony with other people. Feeling cared for by life, you’re free to make sure that the basic needs of all are met. If you’re like me, you can hardly wait to make your contribution to manifest that world.
Beyond Health is what’s formless, indestructible, everywhere present and self-aware. Beyond Health cannot sicken, get old or perish. What has no form to begin with cannot be destroyed.
Indestructible is solid and thus without fear. Your body has form and is subject to breakdown. It can be repaired but will one day break down beyond repair. Your thoughts have form, but continue to change as you think about things in the face of changing contexts. You change your mind a lot. The world you live in has form, and everything constantly changes. Seasons and vegetation change, the weather is different every day, and tides ebb and flow. Night follows day. The moon waxes and wanes. Waterways dry up at times and flood at times. Earth moves under your feet.
Because they have form, your body, mind and nature can break down. This makes their charm short-lived. Subject to breakdown, creatures are subject to fear. You fear loss of your form, and you also fear losing something or someone that has a form to which you have become emotionally attached. You know that you must lose it eventually, but you don’t want to lose it. You fight the inevitable.
Wise people don’t fight but accept what is, as it is. Your expectation that nature should run its course in a way that suits your delusions detracts from you. Enjoy life as it is. Try not to fear the inevitable death of the physical body. Live in your temporary body aware of the permanent peace that is its foundation.
The indestructible is present within your temporary breakdown-prone body and mind. You can choose to focus on the future of your body, which creates anxiety. You can try to rigidly hold to ideas without changing them in the light of new facts and contexts, but this kind of stubborn resistance is tedious to be around. Or you can, while living in a changing body and with a changing mind, keep your focus also on what is changeless and indestructible in your being.
Aware of the indestructible foundation of your being, you can navigate the changing world with equanimity. Don’t get lost in changes by giving them more importance than they merit.
I talk more about changes in my book Total Sexy Health.
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