Tag: life

The merry-go-round

Posted on by philipdodson

As a human race, we are stuck in a never-ending merry-go-round.

One of blame and counter-blame.

One bubble not hearing the other bubble above its own noise of hate.

Everyone chasing something just ahead of us, angry at never seeming to catch it.

Riding the ups and downs with pleasure and pain, nothing constant or deep.

The merry-go-round has no meaning, it just keeps repeating the same, turn after turn.

No one realising they have been round and round the same thing before, never learning or changing.

Sometimes we have to be brave to get off the merry-go-round and be lost in the wilderness. Accepting what is about the merry-go-round and its pursuit of the uncatchable enables us to see an alternative.

Dreaming

Posted on by philipdodson

The dreams and nightmares of a lifetime in the mind.

That is where almost all humans spend almost all of their waking moments, not just when they are sleeping. When we believe we have woken up from sleep, well we’ve got out of bed, but we are still in a subconscious or even unconscious state within our mind.

Thought, a continuous stream inside our head, like a tap that is always on, so much so that is it the norm, thinking but never aware of the actual moment.

The constant noise disrupts us from experiencing our real lives, it prohibits us from actually being awake and fully conscious. We rarely experience reality.

We never think about this moment, only the past or the future, two things that do not exist.

Wakening from our dream requires one simple step, become aware of our surroundings, notice things, sense things, see things, smell things, simply witness and listen to our thoughts without judgement or response and the mind goes silent. Even just to listen and feel our own breathing. This will bring us consciousness and into the moment that is our real life.

Then we realise the insanity of constant thought, most of which is destructive and adding no value.

Do we want to continue dreaming our life away or do we actually want to live it?