In Life there is really only One ‘family’.
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They were all exactly who they ARE.
Unfortunately though they were never listened to, heard, recognised, and accepted for they REALLY ARE.
There was and is no ‘what one wants to be’. That is until adults enforced a False sense of ‘being’.
Just because you may well of ‘lost meaning’ does not meant it has.
The best way to master and live in ‘the present’ is to know ‘what future’ is really wanted.
After all this is actually how ‘Reality’ is created, and comes to exist. There is no real use nor purpose in creating what you/we did not really want anyway.
So much for ‘free will’.
That ‘spark’ is ‘life’, itself, which for some ‘sparked’ at conception.
Obviously you cannot back up and support ‘your claim’ here, which is why you have, once again, resorted to this type of ‘rhetoric’.
you speak as though you are being honest here, which is really quite funny to observe.
Also, please do not be ‘sorry’ for being ignorant of what is being pointed out and shown here. you wanting to not listen and wanting to “run away” and hide is ‘normal’ for people like “yourself”.
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In the United States most banks in terms of saving accounts have less than 1% rates near zero.
So, compound interest is a great thing for financial institutions but not so much for the general common people anymore. Has been that way since 2008.
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In Buddhism we refer to that as finding your own Buddha nature within yourself.
Shed your ego and free yourself from all illusions or attachments finding your inner Buddha.
When you observe and listen to new borns properly and Correctly, or fully, then they tech ‘elders’ what is Truly needed in Life.
Everything else are just wants. Wanting more than you need, is greed. Which, as I claimed, is the third root to all evil.
All children want is to be listened to and heard, and recognised and seen for who they Truly are. If adults just did this, instead of believing they children need disciple and need to listen to adults, then we all would be living in actual Peace and Harmony already.
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The word “yourself” is a misnomer and oxymoron. But anyway, finding, and coming to know thy Self, was a far simpler and easier process than was every previously imagined.
Just about all ‘religions’, if not all, have the very basic same fundamental things at their core. And, this is just because of where thy True Self lies and lives.
Also, and by the way, claiming that ‘It’ is “your” Buddha does not help anyone in learning how to come to know thy Self.
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On a ‘narrowed perspective’. But, for now, it will suffice
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I already knew.
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Great thread.
As I am statistically in the second half of my life, I can describe discoveries that helped me through my early years. But the path I took to get where I am no longer seems viable, and I have no idea where I’m going from here, so my wisdom is at best incomplete.
And I hope it won’t be one-way. The world changes, and the youth can often see things the olds can’t. As the zen master said when asked, as he left the monastery, if he would continue to teach, “If I meet an old man who I can teach, I will teach him. And if I meet a three-year-old who can teach me, I will sit at her feet and listen.”
I got a lot from studying a little bit of psychology in my late teen years. Knowing how minds and brains work helps you notice parts of your own mind you might have missed, and noticing is indispensable to knowing.
I’m pretty asocial, and I’ve gotten a lot from making space for solitude in my day-to-day, but I was completely turned off to this mentality by Thoreau himself. Even in his most isolated, he was dependent upon others, and his writing made his solitude into a labor for others.
I actually wish I’d spent more time learning how to be with others.
I’ve found it very useful to forgive myself. Not in the sense that I stop trying to make amends to others, but in the sense that I stopped hating myself for it.
You did wrong, you can’t change that. But the very fact of your remorse shows you’re better than what you did. Forgive yourself, and try to be better.
As for practical advice: get your GED if you haven’t already. I doubt it’s beyond your capabilities, it could open some doors, and it would make you feel better about yourself.
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I don’t know that I fit in this category, but I know what I’d say to myself 20 years ago:
Don’t lose your playfulness.
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