125-The only place - Buddhism in daily life

The only place

The only place we can be is here, right here, where we are right now, because it is our fate, our karma, our destiny. Only here, and nowhere else, in this very special spot, in a place that is "our" place right now, but that can be "empty" again in the very next moment, or could be the place of another person. Or might cease to exist as a place, break apart, perhaps recompose itself, who knows?

Imagination is a very powerful force. With it we choose the parts that we perceive, that we allow to penetrate our consciousness, that we understand as reality, simply because we close our eyes to the other realities. We make the world as we like it, but it is not like that, it will never be like that. If we understand all people as "bad", then we will also meet "bad" people, constantly and everywhere. But if we cultivate a generally "good" conception, then we will also meet the "good" things, living beings and incidents, just as it pleases us.

But the truth is neither "good" nor "bad", but nothing of what we have made up, nothing of it exists. Because the perception, we have created for ourselves, the reality we do not even know, and there is also clearly more like ONE clarity.

Who still divides everything into "good" or "bad", puts it into the said pigeonholes, does not see how things really are, remains caught in the whirlpool of "wrong" perceptions. It is precisely from this tension that suffering, fear and discord arise. The one who refrains from judging the various illusions, clearly advances on the way to "enlightenment", because the imagination then no longer collides with reality, the disappointments do not occur.

Who remains arrested in his pigeonhole thinking, he is a prisoner of himself, he can only awaken if he recognizes that even the absolute reality is an illusion, like a dream within a dream.

But the one who stops fighting against all the things is very close to awakening, who understands that everything must be an illusion of an illusion, there is no other possibility, nor can there be.

Immediately after the unconditional surrender, the admission of total defeat, the cessation of fighting, we realize that even the prison does not exist, we have only fooled ourselves, rubbed up against our fate.

The way is also the goal, the only place!

If one lives too long in one place, too many things accumulate

- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero

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