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The perfect teaching

Embracing impermanence in full consciousness, we let ourselves fall "into" the Buddha's teaching, for every second of life is precious, no moment comes back, we should, according to the teacher of all teachers, simply not waste time on trivial distractions, but keep focusing on the essential. Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? Questions upon questions!

How do you prepare for your death, can you use every moment, everything that exists is never mine anyway, a permanent I does not exist either, so "one" could already think about these things.

In addition, it is aggravating that "everything" is impermanent, "it" comes and goes, rises and falls, like a stream, like the water, just now a calm ocean, in the next moment a deadly tsunami, nevertheless every drop of water is connected with the next one.

Risk, uncertainty, at the moment of birth our death is also determined, destiny is written, powerfully the elements absorb the energy, pass it on, dissolve it.

The Exalted One said that the body is made of the four elements, but the mind, where does it come from? And anyway, the ego and one's personality, do they belong together, or are they separate? The personality comes from the depths of the universe, follows completely different signals, the body is only a vehicle.

The Perfect One advised us to become free of our desires, to stop being driven by desires, but to look behind the scenes, to rearrange the connections.

In doing so, get rid of the ego, because it causes so much suffering, but what will become of me if I give it up, will I still be alive, or will I die immediately? The ego, what a strange construction, always wavering between doubt and arrogance, always without direction.

Who is ready to think about it, to strain the mind palace, to give room to uncomfortable insights, to accept the answers, not to suppress them?

The perfect teaching of Buddha says that everything is based on suffering, to which we, as simple human beings, are at the mercy, because we cannot keep anything, we will lose everything, therefore we suffer. We will lose ourselves, but also everyone from our surroundings, all beings and things, nothing lasts forever, and we think about that without stopping. Why am I here, how can all this be, I don't understand. So (or so similarly) the thought scraps blow through the thinking of every human being, it occupies us heavily, the question of all questions pushes forward again and again.

The way is the goal!

As from a heap of sweepings in the street lazy airs, a lotus rises freely full of beauty, full of fragrances, so among the people of the blind, which the sins deeply surround, bright in the light of knowledge, shines the disciple of the Awakened One

- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama

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