Possible Verities

Possible Verities.

It's tiresome and boring to talk about oneself even if one thinks he is interesting and unusual. In fact, it is vain to think that one is interesting. Vanity is ego. Ego is really childish because it was born out of ignorance. Only children should be childish. It's pathetic for adults to be childish. It's also far more pathetic to hold oneself as adult and publicly call others as childish in a public forum. True adults don't publicly regard themselves as adults and disdainfully (no matter artfully) clamor that other adults are children. Only pathetic hypocrites and covertly aggressive folks would do that behind a veneer of respectability.

The three obstacles to mental development: greed, anger, and delusion.
The three realms of consciousness: desire, form, and formlessness.
The three time periods: past, present, and future.
The three incarnations which are linked with the three realms of consciousness and the three time periods: pre-birth, birth, and death.

Truth/Dharma vibrates with realities of impermanence/emptiness/and no self. Suffering arises from ignorance of truth.

True Love is the cessation of concern with one's self while cultivating the identification with the Other.

After Love, maybe Knowledge/Truth/Dharma is the only other thing worth pursuing. Power, Fame, and Wealth are concerns of monkeys, not true humans.

Deception of others is understandable, but self-deception is despicable and a sign of weakness and cowardice. Physical bravery is good, emotional and intellectual bravery are even better. Life is not worth living if lived in the shadow of ignorance and cowardice.

Wissai
March 23, 2013