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I need to reorient myself. The way I feel right now, I could just disappear if the opportunity presented itself. I'm not saying I want to 'die'. No. Just saying that if some glowing white angel came to me in a dream and gave me the choice to continue life on earth or move on to the next reality, I might not come back.
In learning about Buddhism, I can see the entire evolution of my thought process, right from the moment of realizing the suffering, the understanding of why the suffering happens, that there must be a way out of the suffering, and the way out is the path. It's just that when I got to the 'path' part, I took the path to the right.
It's sort of amazing to think about. From my interpretation, the Buddha never meant to establish a religion of it's own...the four noble truths on their own are more like an outline of a thought process. Yes, there is much more detail and many more teachings, and today it is practiced in a spectrum far beyond what the Buddha ever intended, but I think at it's core it is a commentary on the way we think and the pathway to lead us out of our own misery.
I bring this all up because, if that white angel came to me with those options, the only thing that holds me back is attachment. The source of suffering. The wanting to keep the things I love. But none of those things are mine. They are just temporary gifts from the Universe [Allah swt], none of this was ever ours to keep.
Most of the turning points in my life [and as I've witnessed in other's lives as well] come at the moment when we are truly and honestly ready to just let go. Cut the cords, no matter how hard it might be. If we never get to that point, then change never comes, and our lives grow stale.
In learning about Buddhism, I can see the entire evolution of my thought process, right from the moment of realizing the suffering, the understanding of why the suffering happens, that there must be a way out of the suffering, and the way out is the path. It's just that when I got to the 'path' part, I took the path to the right.
It's sort of amazing to think about. From my interpretation, the Buddha never meant to establish a religion of it's own...the four noble truths on their own are more like an outline of a thought process. Yes, there is much more detail and many more teachings, and today it is practiced in a spectrum far beyond what the Buddha ever intended, but I think at it's core it is a commentary on the way we think and the pathway to lead us out of our own misery.
I bring this all up because, if that white angel came to me with those options, the only thing that holds me back is attachment. The source of suffering. The wanting to keep the things I love. But none of those things are mine. They are just temporary gifts from the Universe [Allah swt], none of this was ever ours to keep.
Most of the turning points in my life [and as I've witnessed in other's lives as well] come at the moment when we are truly and honestly ready to just let go. Cut the cords, no matter how hard it might be. If we never get to that point, then change never comes, and our lives grow stale.