We all want to live with ease. When you think about it we all have challenges, distractions, dramas and al these little bumps along the road to life that cause us dis-ease. So as soon as we feel discomfort we want relief, we want the externals to change or some outer influence to change our world.
Yet within us peace already exists. O it’s so easy to chase another toy- and when we grow up we have fancier toys, but toys they are.
If I buy a house i need to be given a key – once I own the house the keys is mine. I can choose not to use the key – I can bury it in the back yard if I like. Yet to get inside i need a key unique to the locks. If I want to seek my own place within I also must find a key unique to my soul. A key that allows me to know what it is I am truly looking for.
If I lack this access can I be truly happy? Without, I still exist – but do I have a happiness that is beyond the pure animal existence of life. Nearly every choice we make is part of our predetermined neurological patternings of life. So we try to stabilize our circumstances to calm our reflexive impulses. Yet there is one small part within that we can draw from within us whilst the world around us is changing.
It is this part within us that seeks by nature to be at peace, fulfilled and content. Yet it is as if a second soul within us is driving us like an animal driven by instincts. Perhaps we are driven to have things and we want more and soon we are trapped in the illusion that to be happy I must be rich.
Yet that yearning of the Divine, what in Hebrew may call the neshama or divine Soul, seeks more, a need to know, a certainty, a truth - not more endless questions. It seeks ‘truth vs. False’ which transcends ‘feels good vs. feels bad’.
In our digital world we have learned that we are energy and if our brains are triggered in certain ways our neurology can trigger physical responses as if we are experiencing a reality. Perhaps it is intellectually possible to reach a point where the virtual world could fill our needs. Or could it? Is it possible to electronically replace every one of the billions of neurological signals that feed our senses? Even if it were who wants to be linked to a supercomputer as in the movie the Matrix?
It is simpler to look within and to touch the soul already within us. To learn to refine our senses so that we can reach our inner soul and experience the reaity of the world around us without our emotional distortions.
A deep inner yearning must propel us forward to seek the world within. Where the labels of our societies must cease and our inner feelings take priority. In this the calm objective analyses of our subjective world. The feelings are not denied yet their truth is rationally assessed and refined.
This is not a passing fling into the world of escape, but for those who truly want it. It is not for all – we each must seek our own path. The discipline and the joyful experience of inner peace go hand in hand. You don’t just do it once and expect the world to change. Rather, like an air conditioner, the thermostat constantly readjusts according to the outer environment. The same is true of our inner world. This is not a matter of control – if we try to control our mind it naturally fights back and refuses to yield. Rather, we need to calmly monitor our responses.
Objective science rightly points out that a kiss does not heal a hurt. Yet any child knows that a kiss from mummy makes it all better. It works. The power of that subjective, psychosomatic, reality has made a change in our life. Hence it is a reality. There is great power in love and gratitude. Most however, grab at these phenomena piecemeal and never develop them to their full realised potential.
It is only possible if deep inside of me there is a thirst, a yearning , a craving to know what it is that I want to understand. What is my truth? What is my yearning?
It is to see the world entirely as a human. I can try to imagine it, however, I cannot experience the world as would a bat or a man from mars. Even if I tie webbing to my arms and hang upside down I only experience the world as a human trying to understand a bats world. Objective science in a similar way is forced to see the world from pre formulated scales and concepts. For it we of course are very grateful that the constant re classification of our world has made technology possible.
Yet to the soul within, to the divine neshama, this does not cut it. It does not satisfy my deep seeking for meaning. It is only if I have this need to seek that I am propelled to seek for the true meaning of my inner world.
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