When This Doesn't Feel Like Enough
Cuando esto no se siente como suficiente
A student notices a pattern of feeling that the present moment is insufficient, and the teacher points to the simplicity of recognizing that nothing can be better than what already is.
When This Doesn't Feel Like Enough
A student notices a pattern of feeling that the present moment is insufficient, and the teacher points to the simplicity of recognizing that nothing can be better than what already is.
I want that, but I'm so conditioned to feel otherwise.
You will experience the sense that this isn't enough. That's the thing to look into. I'm not saying you shouldn't engage with life. What I said is: this is what I want the most, and everything else is secondary, but it's also important, also valuable. You can still put energy into all aspects of life, allow movement and effort and work. But from the place where nothing is better than now.
How could it be?
If you see it that way, then that's it.
When I think about it, yes. But I see the pattern that wants to pull away from that.
The obvious nature of this
Because it is obvious. When this is seen, it is simple and obvious. Of course there's nothing better than this, because this is the only thing there is. To want this to be something else is to pull away into a corner of your imagination and fight with what's happening, to try to force something that's just not going to budge. There is a movement that's natural in life, and opposing it only creates suffering. It doesn't help with anything.
This is different from recognizing "this is it" and then feeling like water, feeling like working, feeling like walking. It's still "this is it." But what you mentioned is a very important point: something doesn't feel fulfilling, something seems to be missing. It appears to be not enough. And that's something we can look into, to see what that experience actually is.
Simplicity versus the complicated "I"
It definitely has the energy of something more complicated, versus simplicity.
Yes. And it has the quality of "I know how this should be. I know better." It's I, I, I, I, I. And that "I" is a mental construct.
That sounds like my data.
Thank you for sharing.