Thursday, November 17, 2022
There isn’t any more that the world can give you. You’ve cried as hard as you will ever cry. You’ve laughed as hard as you’ll ever laugh. You’ve experienced every peak pleasure. You’ve already had the best sex, the best food, and the best experiences that surface life can offer you. Can you believe it? Your sensory world has already peaked. What’s left? Your emotional world has already been to the extremes too. What’s left? It’s just time to rest. And I’m not referring to dying.
The earthy form needs so little, doesn’t it? Yet we keep trying to give it more and more. The pendulum of surface experience (what is considered your life’s situation) will swing, and it will seem to toss your emotions to extreme pleasure and then to the other side, extreme suffering. At some point, you want that pendulum to stop, but before you die. The key is not to get wound up, let the momentum settle from all of those back-and-forth mood swings. If the pendulum can settle within you, you’ll begin to notice a serenity, a calm, blissfully centering contentment.
Let yourself notice the inner pendulum hanging, motionless. You can find it in the strangest places, a crowded store, a traffic jam, a contentious meeting, a challenge, or in a health scare. If the pendulum starts moving, stop it by gravitating towards the middle. That’s the source of fullness, the place where you’ll make good decisions and solve complexities. The pendulum of mood swings needs to stop, “dead.” That’s where you’ll notice that the earthly form has had enough, and it’s time to experience the joy of being – settled, peaceful, and free from all of that swinging back and forth. If you can notice the pendulum stopping, then you’ll really start living the fullness of life.