Thursday, May 3, 2012

What is Real?


What is real, in this ever-changing, impermanent world of thoughts, sensations, feelings, emotions, events, and circumstances?
     
The awareness or consciousness that you exist, here and now, is real. It is always real. You’ve been aware of yourself as existing pretty much from the time you were very young. And, if you look back, you’ll realize that this awareness—“Wow! I exist here, now…”—has not changed. It is the one thing that has always been true, constant. It is the one thing that is true right now, even as everything else in your life has changed—your body, your beliefs, your friendships and relationships, your circumstances.
     
That you exist, as an aware, conscious being—a human being—is undeniable. You don’t need any defining belief or story about yourself to know that. This realization of yourself existing right here, right now is the real secret of happiness and inner peace. It is what has been called, in various spiritual traditions, enlightenment, awakening, or self-realization.
     
To feel yourself existing here now—in this very unfolding moment—is to experience an underlying, unchanging current of ease, harmony, and flow. It’s to know and to feel a happiness and inner peace that doesn’t depend on any circumstance, on any “thing,” least of all a thought, belief, or story. It just shines on its own, flows out of your very being.
     
Then, from this place of being very present you use the power of thought consciously to manifest what your heart truly wants in your life, to create more of what you love. It’s brilliant, really. So, so simple, when you see it!
     
Moreover, when you realize that happiness and inner peace is your true nature, it results, over time, in a deep wisdom or knowing, and an ever-flowing feeling of love in your heart. You recognize that this is the natural state of all humanity, of each person, and you want to share the good news with those who are open to it, ready for it.
     
And that’s when the real joy comes to you, the delight you experience when sharing with others …

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