Life.

We talk about life as though we know what it is.

We talk about ‘my life’, and ‘my mind’ and ‘my body’, ‘my family’, ‘my health’, ‘my car’, ‘my country’, my everything, but actually here is the cause of our discontent. The possessive ‘I, me, mine and my’, the manifestation of ego.

Life is just life. This life is not about you, you just make it about you, it’s not personal, you just make it personal. This is a great liberating truth. Life is not about you.

No-one is trying to upset you or cause you pain, it’s just how things are in this moment. No-one is trying to hurt you or destroy what you do. Your ideas and plans are not better than someone else’s, but they’re not worse either. Your thoughts and feelings are not less important than someone else’s, but they’re not more important either. When we truly know this all reasons to argue, fight and kill fall away.

We want our life to mean something, to have value and importance, but actually, it’s just life. Beings are born and beings die, they all do, so relax. Surrender into the beauty and power of the Truth. Enjoy all the beautiful things that will happen for you today, and patiently be with all the others. No reason to be upset, after all, it’s only life.

May all beings be happy.