that's life...

[Guest guest]

Noticed?:.. As kids, taking a ride on the roller-coaster, though at

times screaming due to being scared, one somehow enjoyed it all.

 

It seems to me that life is such a ride.

The `headache' comes in with resistance to `what is' in the form of:

-I Like and I dislike. Good(for me). Bad. (for me).

-I WANT that but not this. I do NOT WANT this, but that.

Which is all the same.

 

After getting tired after this strategy of life, one might bump into

another possibility:

LOVING the WHOLE ride.

 

And I can hear a complaint: `What Nonsense! HOW the heck can I `Love'

this whole wretched business and pain and confusion and fear?'

Of course, one cannot, unless one is a masochist.

But I would add that I did not say " Like " . I said `love'.

What's the difference?

 

One cannot `try' to love, or " accept " (they all talk about this one).

For Why would one Do `accept' if it's not because one does -Not-

accept and desires to get rid of/change what-is?

 

The true answer might be available only in finding it out for oneself.

The moment that happens, the struggle of the dualistic mind is not.

Then, there is only the move of the what-is-roller-coaster, the

sensations on the body/psyche,

and the energy of life, burning out every impediment (the false) in

its way.

 

Conscious flowing on the roller-coaster of life... and loving it,

eats way the energy of conflict... and out of that comes Fiery

ecstasy!

 

And this ride is 'free'. But it might cost " your " life(-story).

 

To put it another way:

THIS… this one, is the Only life one has!

Right? (unless one wants to wait for `the next' better one)

So _why_ maim it so much by resisting it, and

using `brakes'/'shoulds/should-nots' of all kinds… - willful,

conceptual, philosophical, strategic, religious,

moralistic, `spiritual', etc.

WHY?

 

When one gets tired of that, THEN…

WHAT is the only alternative left?

 

I would say:

Madly, and un-`reasonably' Loving it ALL.

(which is not the same as self-indulging flipping out irresponsibly)

 

 

But we have all sought psychological security and control via all

kinds of avoidance of what-is strategies…

And at some moment, it might happen that one sees…

`I have tried to Do something About my life for X years…

and I missed all those Living moments! What a Horror of

Mediocrity !', and

Then…

One might hear and Be the all

permeating Roaring song of

Being Life.

…

 

(All this, is not some poetic/speculative indulgence.

It's been Seen, if only for a few moments.)

 

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Regards,

Jb