You are aware. That’s what you are about. Thinking or, worse, overthinking is not your essential nature. Everything is oriented around your awareness. It is a fact that even the most inattentive should not question.
And what is this awareness? Oddly, it isn’t about what we are aware of. Our awareness is internal, like an internal combustion engine. Only it doesn’t grind or hiss. It is virtually silent as it takes you places.
The noises, the angst, and the unhappiness are all of our own making.
If you are a student of consciousness, you have no excuse to think other than about what is strictly needed for survival.
Our inner talking has convinced us that we are a lot bigger than we are. It is so big, in fact, that we are fit to understand the universe and its purposes.
We ask what the meaning of our lives is. And a thousand voices rise to speak to the angst. Online retreats are sprouting up like mushrooms after a spring rain, as well as healing meditations of all kinds. And the various masters speak endlessly about meaning, purposes, and roadmaps to liberation. It is just more of the same. They all home in on this notion of our having a problem and how we must work to fix it and rid ourselves of it.
But don’t we have a problem?
There is no need to overthink. If you believe that being born, getting old, getting sick, and dying are all natural phenomena, then we really don’t have a problem. Things are as they are; it is natural. On the other hand, if you think you have been singled out unfairly, given undue tasks or tribulations by fate, then we do.
In other words, if there is a problem, it isn’t with reality. It is with our ego.
A funny little observation I made in a previous work:
“The ample heartache, the suffering, the disappointment, and for what? Whatever we may find, they are inconsequential in the long run. They can hurt or harm us for a time. They stay with us only because we let them.
“Suffering is a given. The world can be hard, but it is also a gift because of its transitory nature. Although we cannot dwell forever in this world, it also does not detain us long.”
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