We Tend To Run Our Whole Life

Enlightenment Is Not Something You Achieve. It Is The Absence Of Something. All Your Life You Have Been Going Forward After Something, Pursuing Some Goal. Enlightenment Is Dropping All That.

My Dog Doesn't Worry About The Meaning Of Life. She May Worry If She Doesn't Get Her Breakfast, But She Doesn't Sit Around Worrying Whether She Will Get Fulfilled Or Liberated Or Enlightened. As Long As She Gets Some Food And A Little Affection, Her Life Is Fine. But We Human Beings Are Not Like Dogs. We Have Self-centered Minds Which Get Us Into Plenty Of Trouble. If We Do Not Come To Understand The Error In The Way We Think, Our Self-awareness, Which Is Our Greatest Blessing, Is Also Our Downfall.

There Are Many People In The World Who Feel That If Only They Had A Bigger Car, A Nicer House, Better Vacations, A More Understanding Boss, Or A More Interesting Partner, Then Their Life Would Work. We All Go Through That One. Slowly We Wear Out Most Of Our 'if Onlies.

We 'rid Ourselves Of Conceptual Thought' When, By Persistent Observation, We Recognize The Unreality Of Our Self-centered Thoughts. Then We Can Remain Dispassionate And Fundamentally Unaffected By Them. That Does Not Mean To Be A Cold Person. Rather, It Means Not To Be Caught And Dragged Around By Circumstances.

If I Were To Tell You That Your Life Is Already Perfect, Whole, And Complete Just As It Is, You Would Think I Was Crazy. Nobody Believes His Or Her Life Is Perfect. And Yet There Is Something Within Each Of Us That Basically Knows We Are Boundless, Limitless.