Hi Love,
Without realising, you have included the answer in your question. Just living, is fun. *Just live* is a vast statement. Most hardly live at all, and those that do usually stop when they are twenty-two. Trees live until the moment the dying process sets in. They have all said it. It is so obvious when you are free. “Unless you leave your father and mother, sister and brethren, wives and children. ” “Take no thought of tomorrow. ” “Today for today. ” “It is easier for a camel to pass through…” “They toil not neither do they sew/sow.”
The way most people live is not living, it is just surviving. It is always about the future. When people are born they are programmed, activated and sent out into the world like mechanical dolls — that are very predictable.
”So even, tho, ultimately, “just live” is the truth and freedom of Being, it seems to me that spiritual practice (in the developed, varieties) is the handiest road to the click. It feels that way to me. It also feels the most exciting; the most fun. ”
That would be great if it were true. Out of the thousands of people who are practicing, how many awakened people do you know? If you do find someone who is awake, and some people around them are awake also, then go for it as it is much easier than taking responsibly and doing it for yourself. Of course when I say doing it yourself I do not exclude going to hear and experience others, but I mean you are not relying on someone or some technique to do it for you. The ultimate technique is to free you from all technique. The true spiritual practice is not practice, and it is not spiritual. There is no such thing as spiritual. There is no such thing as anything. Just names to which we attach our own meaning for our own convenience. If you are living, totally, honestly, that is the maximum potential. It is fun as well.
People do their religion, therapy, spiritual practice because they do not want to change. It is just a way of delaying for as long as possible. They do want things to be different, but they do not want to do what is the maximum potential, in each moment. See above: “Unless you leave…” For anything to be practice it has to have been predetermined. It is old already, and not of the moment. You cannot practice the moment. The moment is the moment. Fresh, new, never happened before and will never happen exactly that way again. The so called practice may have worked for someone, sometime, in some situation, but not only will the old not work, it never happens that way again. Krishna Murti had a certain awakening, but he never got really free — because he did it some else’s way. Then he spent the rest of his life trying to tell people not to do it the way he did it. He said that there is no way. True. Living truthfully is not practice, it is just not living a lie.
The few people who have awakened may have started off trying to be aware, but the main motivation was because that was what they wanted to do — attain their maximum potential in each moment. That was their fun. They may have started off trying to run away from who they were, their pain and misery, but eventually they were just doing what they really wanted to be doing the most — whether they awaked or not. And it was their absolute, unconditional priority. Best read that again. “Unless you leave…” This is called: Having Fun.
If you are having to practice the piano because your parents say you have to then it can be very unpleasant, but if you have decided to be a concert pianist, then the practice, although still hard, it is fun as well. When you really, really want to wake up to your maximum potential, UNCONDITIONALLY, then you are awake — and you realise that you have been awake all the time, but have been choosing not to be. Choosing and not realising? Oh yes, it is a choice. When you choose not to choose, choiceless, then you are awake.
Want to check it out? If a centinal being appeared in your meditation and told you leave everything and go to the Himalayas, barefoot…. It happened to me. It worked. It is not the practice, not the process, but the purity of heart. Unconditional. Thank you for setting all that off. Of course there is more… and no more. You are the question, and the answer. And there is no you.
When/if I ever find people who really ready then I will start to share things that cannot be shared! I respect your sincerity dear friend, and keep watching.
Sending lots of love… paul