So, what are we seeking?
A dialogue with the self.
This is an observation.
As you become more aware, you slowly start understanding the world around you, the hollowness of different things, and momentarily experiences. The day goes by just collecting experiences and working on the better ones. It is all about experiences!
But after a while, our minds are challenged by the satisfaction level of different experiences. For example, for a millionaire, a luxurious lifestyle is the norm, so the mind challenges it. The luxury is no longer satisfactory, and he seeks out other things. By meditating and the awareness it brings, a person can trace a pathway of every experience one wants to seek and understand that what he is seeking is transitory and is already there.
So, what we are seeking is
EXPERIENCES, the beautiful ones.
But in the Yin and yang of life, with pleasure comes pain. The unbearable pain leads us to seek what is more in life.
With that, we understand that every experience we have waited for and have gone through holds no place. Ultimately, after all the dreamful travelling and meeting my favourite people, I am still at this desk writing about how I feel hollow.
Similarly, every writer, artist, and person tries to find meaning in whatever they are doing. But if we could sit with ourselves, we can trace this pattern and realise this is the wrong way!
The Outside world was never meant to fulfil us, and the sooner we realise this, the more detached we become, and with that comes freedom and, ultimately, the satisfaction we seek. There is no satisfaction, no seeking and just being!
The wise understand the pattern of the world and are brave enough to unplug themselves from this engaging drama. Only they can realise the inner world and reach stages in which there are no experiences, only awareness, consciousness and union with the self.
I can only hope that we all find the strength to overcome the transitory experiences and find our inner Shambhala :)
