Life.

 

Life is full of experiences.

Actually, this is not true. Life is one continuing experience, and some aspects of this experience are pleasant, and some are not. Some are joyful and some are painful, but whatever they are, their reality is that they are impermanent. Nothing lasts for more than the shortest duration of time and whatever we experience only ever has the power and influence in our lives that we give it.

This is an important truth to realise! Whatever we hold on to will hurt us. Whatever we make important will cause us pain. Whatever we believe becomes our truth.

But the Absolute Truth, the Dhamma, is clear; Anger is only anger, fear is only fear, doubt is only doubt. Everything is arising and passing away, and has only the power we give it.

So look at your life. Look at what you hold on to. Look at what you empower. There is nothing worth fighting for, nothing worth killing for, and nothing worth dying for. There are only ideas. There are only movements of mind, and each one is only what it is, until you take hold of it and make it into your own personal world!

 

May all beings be happy.