Aware,
conscious, cognizant, mindful, alive, apprehensive, regretful – acquiring knowledge
and understanding through experiences and senses.
We are sentient
beings on sparse occasions; mostly we go through our daily routine as androids unaware
of the world around us.
We place
high importance on our cognition, preferring to think of ourselves above and separate
from all other animal species on earth.
We invent gods in our likeness, and refuse to accept the finality of death.
We declare ourselves intelligent and separate above all living things;
when actually, we share 98% of our DNA with our cognizant cousins, chimpanzees.
We are not
special creatures. We are on this earth
through an uncontrolled application of chaos.
If we were to back up evolution to an earlier state there is no reason
to believe that the outcome would follow the same process.
We are each here as a matter of chance. One particular egg of the three hundred that our mother produced happened to drop at a time that she was sexually receptive, in a place and time that allowed for intercourse, with a random male who inseminated her with tens-of-thousands of sperm, and one particular of those tens-of-thousand happened to penetrate the egg fertilizing it with your particular DNA traits, producing an individual you. Total happenstance.
But we are here - sentient - and with the ability to enjoy our brief time.
Unfortunately, we produce chaos in our own life and waste our precious time by not being mindful of the moment.
If you
cannot remember what you ate for breakfast this morning or how it tasted, then you
were not alive in that moment; a waste of the precious time we have on
this chaotic earth.
Our time is relatively short. Like
all other animal species, we will pass and be no more.
Our life is
a gift. We are here as a result of chance. Like the Buddha, we must savor the
stimulations of our senses, bask in the beauty around us, and pause to enjoy
the pleasures of living in the moment, or this gift of life will have been for
naught.
In the legend, the Buddha, near death, became awakened when a beautiful young girl gave him a nourishing bowl of rice and a drink of cool refreshing water.
Wake Up!
the Ol'Buzzard
Mindfulness is where it's at, it's true.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad many in our world do not know how to practice mindfulness. It makes me wonder what would happen if everyone on this planet suddenly woke up. Would it be a matrix moment? Would it be for the better of humanity?
ReplyDeleteI try to be Mindful of my Moments, it's Awesome when you can be.
ReplyDeleteI keep thinking there is another way out.
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