When one FEELS love or peace or joy, where is that feeling?
Is it in the hand or the foot or the elbow? Is it in someone else or the sunset or the dinner or the book?
Or is it in the head - do we just imagine it, think it up? Ask yourself!
When one thinks that one is in love, one is just thinking, not feeling. A thought is not the same as a feeling. And along comes desire and lust, jealousy, frustration, even anger. And how long does that thought that one is in love last?
But when one FEELS love, one KNOWS love - that feeling is unconditional as long as it lasts. And if and when it fades, is it still there, just that one no longer feels it.
Same for peace and joy - one does not have to analyse it or understand it or explain it - the feeling is itself enough, it brings contentment, satisfaction and, one hopes, gratitude.
Whether or not one is religious, books tell us what those that others say were masters or teachers said. Socrates said "Know Thy Self"; Christ said "The Kingdom of Heaven is within"; Buddha said that the whole universe is within; Krishna and Nanak said it is within; Mohammed said peace is within (the word Islam means peace, however the fanatics want to distort it into hatred).
Yet we look outside to find something that will again spark those feelings within.
If only we could learn how to look within and find those feelings without needing anything in the world to be "just right", the way we want it! Those that can and do seem to say that they feel gratitude, thankful for their breath, one of the few things we need no effort to take. And it is between the walls of birth, the first and essential breath we take, and death, the last essential breath we take, that we live. Sad indeed when one does not enjoy.
Almost everything beyond our basic bodily functions that we do not have to think about, is taught to us. Those that teach are the teachers or masters.
So, if we do not KNOW how to tune in to that love and peace and joy that is sitting inside us waiting for us to feel it, could it be that we need to be shown? And if we need to be shown who will show us - and is it worth the effort.
If we lose something within our own house, what is the point of looking outside.
For me, I was and am grateful to my dearest friend and teacher who not only showed me where and how to look almost 50 years ago, but has constantly been here for me; and he made it SO EASY and free - asking only that I give his techniques a chance, don't show them to others and be committed to myself.
By now most of my friends know his name
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