As I mentioned, our (my) suffering is making contact with a truth in Life that seems to destroy our illusions or the assumptions we cling to for a sense of security or wholeness. It’s very much like thinking a relationship is secure and will last forever; only to discover the impermanence in all things, and that relationship becomes what you feared (not what you wanted).
Naturally, we can become resentful toward life and other people, for not doing what we want so that we can hold on to how we want things to be. However, the Truth of Life isn’t interested in rearranging itself so that I can avoid what I’m afraid of. Life will be Life, so that Life can be Life.
The Journey of spirituality, or embodiment, is more about me coming into alignment with the truth of things, rather than trying to control things to conform to how I think they should be.
It’s like… Making peace with the unknown, rather than trying to conquer the unknown. Every moment beyond right now, forever, will be wrapped in some flavor of uncertainty; whether we want it that way or not.
What makes this super challenging, is our lifetime of conditioning that has been convinced, in some way, that Life doesn’t know what it’s doing, so it’s up to you to control something or force things into your box. When really, the invitation is to unravel the conditioning, over time, to allow for a relaxation into a Life (the Truth) that knows exactly what it’s doing.
Is Life Meaningless? Well, let’s look at it this way… What does something, anything, mean beyond the meaning you give it?
For me, right now, I’m sitting in a café looking out the window and it’s raining. I can ask, “What does that mean, that it’s raining?”
Do you see that there are literally an infinite number of meanings that could be created? Yet, in the most simple way, the rain just IS. Furthermore, I could say that it’s not even the rain that’s raining, it’s Life being Life. Why? `So that Life can be Life.
Beyond this IS’ness of the rain, I’m the one that gives it meaning. I’m the one who tells a story about it. AND, I experience the meaning I create, I don’t experience the rain (which is empty of meaning), I experience “how I see the rain.”
The rain is meaningless, it just IS, and it couldn’t be any other way.
Soooo badly, we want life to have a meaning, when actually, in the most beautiful way… Life says…
“my dear, Meaning? That’s up to you. I’m a blank canvas that allows for all meaning. I’m a blank canvas that allows for you to paint whatever resonates most with your precious heart.”
In our conditioning, we have taken on so many false meanings and projections from others and the world. So much, in fact, getting in touch with the sincerity of meaning in your heart (your most authentic painting) just seems… wrong, like it’s not allowed. This can only happen if we are convinced there is a meaning “out there” that imposes itself onto us. There is not. You are Free.
In the pain of feeling like life is meaningless, we are encountering the truth of Life being meaningless, and it’s destroying our illusion of finding meaning in the world. We were hoping to find meaning ‘out there’ as something to cling to or hold on to, and we find out that it all just slips through our fingers.
There’s an invitation to meet this truth, head-on, and heart first. We can release the hope of finding meaning in the world, dig deep into your most profound sincerity, and get in touch with the real YOU.
Drop the world’s meanings being projected onto you, which only weigh you down like a heavy outfit you have no interest in wearing. Imagine that, 🙊, having to wear clothes that don’t resonate with you at all; it’s like being forced to dress like a cheerleader when you really want to dress as a painter. I think this is how a lot of people feel.
BIG HUG TO YOU!
-Tiger 🐯
