Feb 14 in Insights
Everything Comes and Goes
One of the biggest realizations for spiritual growth is that absolutely everything comes and goes.
Well, not everything....
There is one thing that never comes and goes, and that is consciousness itself — our true nature. The only thing in our life that is permanent.
However, thoughts, sensations, emotions, all come and go. They are impermanent. But yet we seem to always get lost in these and identify with them as soon as they arise.
Deep down we know that nothing is ever permanent. We have suffered countless times in our lives, and yet everytime suffering arises, we tend to think that "this time it's special! I've never felt this way before... Maybe it'll go away if I resist or wish it away even more!"
The circumstances to why we suffer might be completely new, and the narrative and scenarios that we play out in our mind might not have happened to us before. That's true.
But the SENSATION it causes in our body i.e. stress, worry, anxiety, unease, etc. have been present in our bodymind countless times before. We forget that everytime we've suffered, it's always gone away after a while. So the question is: Why are we always resisting these sensations as if we've never felt them before?
When we can learn to not resist pain or grasp on to joy, but rather realize that we've felt the exact same sensations before — to learn to accept the arising and falling of sensations without resentment or clinging — we have cracked a massive code to self-realization.
If we can learn this absolute truth, if we can realize that everything is impermanent, and that that in us which is able to see that everything is impermanent IS what is permanent, we'll be on to something really great.
If we can learn to identify with what IS permanent in us — that which never comes and goes — we'll be realizing a new sense of peace.
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