The other day I met a man who was in the planning stages of organizing a group for children who had dropped out of grade school and high school; a support group more or less; a commonplace for these children to meet to propel themselves forward despite the struggles of life.
And I was thinking that in many ways we have never learned how to properly cope with our emotions. Think about it: our whole lives we are only really ever taught how to find things and verify things in the external world. No one ever teacher us how to look within or how to verify within.
Even our education system is one which institutionalizes us from the very start. Our education is partial, for it only teaches us to assess the external and the physical, under a very guided and narrow curriculum some source separate from ourselves has deemed valuable and interesting.
So from the very start we are robbed of our identities, robbed of our innate curiosity, and we continue along the path which we are told is the "right" way to happiness. Quickly we become strangers to ourselves, and the more we continue to look for outside verification; to allow people the right to call us "intelligent," "average," or "stupid" and the moment we start believing these external assessments of ourselves to be valid, then we have strayed from our cosmic intelligence.
So, we take all the steps in the game that society claims are the progressive steps towards happiness and success, but we find these steps don't actually lead us to success at all and we become confused and depressed when we can't understand why we are so unhappy even after we have done everything they told us to and played the game so well.
And that is because the whole time we have avoided looking within. We have become so estranged from our own physical existence, and all of these anxieties and fears have been harvesting. Each time we ignore them they just come back stronger. But if we acknowledge them and sit with them long enough, we can actually get to know ourselves again and know what it is we are actually interested in; we can see that our cosmic intelligence was there all along; and we can see that there is a place in us that no one can ever touch. We take up space; we matter, and we don't need anyone else to validate that.
The best teacher of the mind is its own experiences, so by meditating and breathing properly and fully, we consequently create good habits for ourselves. The consequences are invaluable as we can learn how to properly deal with our emotions. Our emotions are so closely linked to our breath, that by breathing properly we can actually regulate our emotions and experience a transformation. I think this is a more sincere and honest way towards happiness and success.
The main reason why we can't answer the question "What do you want?" is because usually we already have it. It is a matter of looking within. Meditation is invaluable.
And I was thinking that in many ways we have never learned how to properly cope with our emotions. Think about it: our whole lives we are only really ever taught how to find things and verify things in the external world. No one ever teacher us how to look within or how to verify within.
Even our education system is one which institutionalizes us from the very start. Our education is partial, for it only teaches us to assess the external and the physical, under a very guided and narrow curriculum some source separate from ourselves has deemed valuable and interesting.
So from the very start we are robbed of our identities, robbed of our innate curiosity, and we continue along the path which we are told is the "right" way to happiness. Quickly we become strangers to ourselves, and the more we continue to look for outside verification; to allow people the right to call us "intelligent," "average," or "stupid" and the moment we start believing these external assessments of ourselves to be valid, then we have strayed from our cosmic intelligence.
So, we take all the steps in the game that society claims are the progressive steps towards happiness and success, but we find these steps don't actually lead us to success at all and we become confused and depressed when we can't understand why we are so unhappy even after we have done everything they told us to and played the game so well.
And that is because the whole time we have avoided looking within. We have become so estranged from our own physical existence, and all of these anxieties and fears have been harvesting. Each time we ignore them they just come back stronger. But if we acknowledge them and sit with them long enough, we can actually get to know ourselves again and know what it is we are actually interested in; we can see that our cosmic intelligence was there all along; and we can see that there is a place in us that no one can ever touch. We take up space; we matter, and we don't need anyone else to validate that.
The best teacher of the mind is its own experiences, so by meditating and breathing properly and fully, we consequently create good habits for ourselves. The consequences are invaluable as we can learn how to properly deal with our emotions. Our emotions are so closely linked to our breath, that by breathing properly we can actually regulate our emotions and experience a transformation. I think this is a more sincere and honest way towards happiness and success.
The main reason why we can't answer the question "What do you want?" is because usually we already have it. It is a matter of looking within. Meditation is invaluable.
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