What is it that defines you in this existence? Are you searching for something outside of yourself in hope that you will eventually arrive home to the place you have so longed for? - This is the most common misconception that leaves people running around on an endless treadmill in life and constantly falling short of their expectations.
Your expectations are the demands that you impose on the world and are what you expect to receive from anyone or anything outside of yourself. How can you ever be satisfied knowing deep down that you have been searching for so long and yet still the missing piece of the puzzle has not appeared? This missing piece of the puzzle is the illusion that happiness can be found outside of you. How can a Buddhist monk find happiness in solitude, is there really any peace in the confines of the Self? These are all questions that can only be answered by the individual through trial and experience. What we term as an 'error' in this lifetime is simply an unfavourable experience or a failure to reach our expectations and this is what sets us up with the feeling of failure. Without expectation we have no failure we simply see the moment as it is in its truest form.
The search within the self is the long-awaited journey that one finally embarks upon when the realisation comes through awareness that the events outside of us are no longer satisfying our inner calling. The residue of truth resides in all that exists - that is, that the external has never given us complete fulfillment anyway - only temporary. The missing piece of the puzzle is always inside us, waiting for awareness to shine its light over the shadow of its existence. The love that you feel for yourself is the cultivation of inner awareness and it is this awareness that shines the light out into the world in which you live, allowing you to see reality in its true form.
Your expectations are the demands that you impose on the world and are what you expect to receive from anyone or anything outside of yourself. How can you ever be satisfied knowing deep down that you have been searching for so long and yet still the missing piece of the puzzle has not appeared? This missing piece of the puzzle is the illusion that happiness can be found outside of you. How can a Buddhist monk find happiness in solitude, is there really any peace in the confines of the Self? These are all questions that can only be answered by the individual through trial and experience. What we term as an 'error' in this lifetime is simply an unfavourable experience or a failure to reach our expectations and this is what sets us up with the feeling of failure. Without expectation we have no failure we simply see the moment as it is in its truest form.
The search within the self is the long-awaited journey that one finally embarks upon when the realisation comes through awareness that the events outside of us are no longer satisfying our inner calling. The residue of truth resides in all that exists - that is, that the external has never given us complete fulfillment anyway - only temporary. The missing piece of the puzzle is always inside us, waiting for awareness to shine its light over the shadow of its existence. The love that you feel for yourself is the cultivation of inner awareness and it is this awareness that shines the light out into the world in which you live, allowing you to see reality in its true form.
