I just want to express that being human is incredibly hard.
And for myself,
Sometimes I feel like it's too hard.
It's too much to handle.
Going down rabbit holes,
Knowing things,
Seems like the logical thing to do.
To figure out what this life is,
So that you can then find some type of relief.
What no one ever told me is that knowing more,
Or thinking that you know more,
Is not necessarily a blessing.
Sometimes it's the most simple people,
Or the people who live the most simple lives,
And who don't engage with life like an academic,
That are the happiest.
And you can probably verify that for yourself.
People you know in your life,
Are they the people who are happiest in your life?
Are they the people who read tons and tons of books,
And spend hours watching videos?
Or are they the people who just live in the moment,
And don't think too much about stuff?
I'm not trying to say we shouldn't contemplate and think about this stuff,
Because I think some of us have that in their nature,
That we want to get to the bottom of things.
And that's quite noble,
And there's something to that I feel.
It's just sometimes it's a very heavy load to handle,
And we're much better off just being in this moment,
Being present with everything.
Letting go of the chatura in the mind,
Letting go of trying to solve everything,
Figuring out why this world is here,
Figuring out why this body is here,
Figuring out all these deeper existential questions,
To the extent that we get to celebrate this unique expression,
This unique existence,
This gift that it is to wake up in the morning.
We don't know how many more moments we have.
All we have is this moment right here.
Still we act like we have so many more.
But we just never know.
And for me sometimes that helps me to think,
Well,
Who says I have even another moment?
So given that I don't know if I will have another moment,
Why don't I live this moment like it's the last?
And then I realize a lot of the stuff that I thought mattered,
That I thought I had to fight and resist and be sad about,
Health issues,
They just fall away.
So I wonder why can't that be our default more of the time?
Why is that not my default more of the time?
And the solution or the answer often of course is the mind,
But I'm not saying this like,
Oh,
The evil mind is making us suffer,
Because the mind is doing exactly what it's supposed to do,
Given what we're feeling it,
Giving the circumstances,
Giving the environment that it's in.
It's not necessarily malfunctioning.
It's just responding in a way that is normal for it to do.
So maybe it's more about arranging our environment in a way where our mind doesn't have to go down these paths of suffering.
Maybe it's just about living a simpler life without so much desire,
Being more present in the moment,
Loving people,
Even if we're filled with their enemies,
Not to make it okay what they do,
But just not to hold on to that grudge,
Because that slowly eats us up.
We slowly die.
They don't suffer from the grudge that we hold.
It's us,
Right?
But anyway,
I don't really know what the point of this video is,
Apart from just some reflections,
Some intentions of being in this moment more.
And we hear this so much,
The power of now,
Be present in the moment,
And all of that,
But still we always think,
Yeah,
I'll do that.
Or maybe we even make an identity,
Oh,
I'm now this person that's always present in the moment.
But what does that really mean?
What does it really mean to live in the moment?
As far as I can tell,
It can mean doing the things that you love.
You don't need to get rid of everything and just live in a robe on a mountain.
But just being here,
Not always living in the past,
Not always living in the future,
Because this moment is all that we have and all we will ever have.
I feel like I've said this a million times in videos,
But I'm just reading the Tao Te Ching right now as a recommendation from a friend.
And it makes you reflect,
Of where our priorities are and where they should be.
We always have to remember that only light can drive out darkness,
But at the same time,
The light and the darkness are not separate.
They are different spectrums,
But they're still part of one whole.
Without the light,
There could be no darkness,
Without the darkness,
There could be no light.
Does that make sense?
Without darkness,
We wouldn't know the light,
Without darkness,
We wouldn't know the light,
Without light,
We wouldn't know the darkness.
So,
It's all part of one which is really hard to accept,
Because that means it's also in us.
In each and every one of us,
There's a wild monster that feeds on the darkness.
And that can be hard to accept.
If that is the truest source of what we are,
That's another question,
But it's definitely part of the whole.
But yes,
Thank you so much for watching.
I don't know if I will ever publish this video,
I just want to reflect this camera because it felt like the right thing to do.
Much love to you.
And just recording this on my phone because I felt it's a really nice addition,
And I only just woke up so my voice is still a bit raspy.
But one of the greatest things I feel that we have in this life is each other.
And as cheesy as that sounds,
I think it's really true because we can help each other make this experience easier when we reflect to each other,
When we provide an open space,
When we give insight to each other.
I feel that's one of the biggest blessings in life,
That we can guide each other.
And there's a saying,
I think it was Ram Dass,
I'm not quite sure,
But someone said,
We're all just walking each other home.
I'm a looper there.
