Student Questions: How to Just Live?

Today's question from a student is this  

How do I just live sometimes it is hard.

 

Over the years I have answered this many times. Sometimes we have to answer the same question from many angles, becuase the issues come in from many angles... I have been getting many variations to this question of late from emails, as a result many of my blog entries have been writing about this. If this answer repeats parts of recent previous blog entries, I must apologize, but at times it's worth repeating the better answers to remind students how to live well. 

Ironically living is hard becuase: Human nature requires challenge. Look at how many people live. No matter how well people have it, you discover people often still find some complaint, to purposefully (but most often unconsciously) do things in a way to make their life harder. If you do this, catch yourself and flip it around with acceptance of the good parts also to balance out life.

The Meaning of life is how you live, not the destination, to live well is a question of style. We each have a manner which fits to our core being.

Body: To be young, is to explore life, try things out , test and poke about. Make sure you have an exercise routine, martial arts, walking, jogging, yoga, qi gong... something just to keep a person in shape and exploring your body.

Mind: We need something for our mind to explore.... poetry, writing, reading, play, art, music...

Spirit: Take mind, body mix it up, and then in motion we discover our spirit to be alive and invigorated .... Mixing the mind with body together to understand then accept what it is to be our nature.

This isn't about answers ... but people seek "an answer" thinking that the answer is what fills life... Discover it is connection that fills life, a smile shared, laughter joined, friendship explored...

Don't make life hard, that's honestly optional... Society makes life hard to keep people running so they don't notice that society is a rigged game...

Take the time to discover what life is ... from your eyes, not from what society or others tell you it should be.. but to simply what feels right. This is how the smile leads you to explore heart.

Play with this a bit as you have time, don't worry about getting it right, It's not about what is right, it's about what fits inside and you can only figure that out in playing the role of You... in due course you will be a star and it's simply enough to be, not to shine for others but to bask in the warmth of your own heart, connections and whimsy of what may happen... Then in a few decades you take all of that experience and merge it into something new... but that's for later... right now take the time to experience play of being you.

Even when being a Master, when you have peace and calmness of being, being human doesn't go away.

And that's good since...

that harder edge is a safe place to climb as it keeps us ...

Human

Namaste