Experiencing Experience
or
Life in the Matter World
~The 200th Stream~
Many would believe this Matter World doesn't really matter at all... the only reality is that which exists beyond all matter. A tempting thought and one that has been pursued by deep thinkers for centuries. What gives that thought any credibility is whether our lives that we rejoice in and suffer in is only a stepping stone to a life free of emotions... liberated from suffering, liberated from mind, liberated from bodily needs, liberated from constant change without ever knowing where or why or when a destination will be achieved... will our sailing ship of life ever find a final port? ... or is this life nothing more than a temporal journey until we pass to the other side?
Minds can wrestle with those questions, and indeed they do. They've been pondered and discussed as long as thought has existed and time has allowed. But if there ever was a perfect answer that appealed to all of us, that answer would have been embraced long ago. Instead here we are, calling ourselves Homo Sapiens, but hardly in agreement with any answers we ask ourselves regarding our very life which has been estimated to be around 250,000 years... and counting. I would reckon that if our species were to last another 250,000 years we would still not have reached an agreement amongst our kind. Questions far outweigh our answers. We seek answers to our questions not simply to know but 'to experience being alive,' as Mr Campbell had written.
The experience of living, truly feeling alive with all our senses working receptively to 'give us a buzz' that feels like life should feel. When we, the Sapiens, feel our best is when we are liberated from those things that weigh us down. When the hot air balloon sheds it's weight it rises gracefully and majestically into the skies to join with the breeze that take it along on a wonderful journey without true direction or meaning - only to flow serenely with our troubles left far behind. That poetic scenario is but one of so many human experiences that make our life lively... our experiences give us more than just meaning, our experiences give us definition of what is means to be alive.
That experience which awaits us after we have lived should await us after we have lived. There is no need to rush our lives if the hurry does not fulfill our experience of being. We will be without this life far, far longer than the time our life provides us our experiences. If we do not learn how to enjoy our life we are among the walking dead... zombies without emotions to experience this matter world belong not to this world but imagine the silent death of what lies beyond their moribund existence anxiously awaiting it's demise. That is no way to live for it offers negative experiences that add to the dismal slow death of consciousness that barely survives in the imagination-starved mind on it's final breath with a tomorrow exactly like their today.
Those that do not experience the most in their lives will never live a life fully experienced. Stunted and dumb to what this world offers from malnourishment of imagination of a life of dis-ease and joylessness, deprived of 'the rapture of being alive' we may also find ourselves castaways from living if we abandon the true meaning of life.
mtmynd
05 abril 2009
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