Here is some beautiful wisdom for you humans!
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with NOW is the end of suffering.
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
Unhappiness needs a mind made “me” with a story. It needs time - past and future. When you remove time from your unhappiness, what is is that remains? the “suchness” of this moment remains.
Suffering begins when you mentally name or label a situation as undesireable or bad. You resent a situation and that resentment personalizes it and brings in a reactive “me”.
Watch what happens when you don’t name an experience “bad” and instead bring an inner acceptance, an inner “yes” to it, and let it be as it is.
From Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle
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I already talked about time in one of my recent posts. Well, the more i think about it the more it becomes clear to me that NOW is really all there is. And that the quality of the now and what we do in it really is what determines the quality of our future. Us cats - we understand that, right? we don’t care about our past or our future, but I see how people don’t get it. They completely disregard the present moment by either crying about the past, fantasizing or worrying about the future or numbing themselves out in the present with television and other addictions. They are alway in a hurry to get somewhere or do something. Which I hate because they don’t stop to pick me up and pet me, and to really appreciate me. Now.
Doing one thing at a time means to be total in what you do, to give it your full attention.
Because, wherever you go there you are. You are here. Always. If people only knew how to let the present be as it is by accepting it totally and letting go of any resistance to it…. well, they would be more cat-like, and probably happier.
This morning I felt really hungry so I started following my “owner’ around the house meaouing as loud as I could. She kept on looking at her watch saying “No, Peapod, its not yet TIME for your meal”.
OK I want to talk about this stupid human invention called time. What is time?
The past is just a whole bunch of memories, and the future is no more than fantasies (YES! I fantasize about my next meal!!!), and worries (another useless human invention).
Think about this: if there were no humans in the world. Not one. Just animals and plants and trees…. would anyone be asking what time is it? Would anyone be saying its not yet time for your next meal? What is this crap?? NO! Nature doesn’t care about time. In nature there is no past or future. Only NOW! So, I say - give me food now!!