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The perfect teaching


Embracing impermanence in full consciousness, we let ourselves
fall "into" the Buddha's teaching, for every second of life is
precious, no moment comes back, we should, according to the
teacher of all teachers, simply not waste time on trivial
distractions, but keep focusing on the essential. Who am I? Where
do I come from? Where am I going? Questions upon questions!


How do you prepare for your death, can you use every moment,
everything that exists is never mine anyway, a permanent I does
not exist either, so "one" could already think about these
things.


In addition, it is aggravating that "everything" is impermanent,
"it" comes and goes, rises and falls, like a stream, like the
water, just now a calm ocean, in the next moment a deadly
tsunami, nevertheless every drop of water is connected with the
next one.


Risk, uncertainty, at the moment of birth our death is also
determined, destiny is written, powerfully the elements absorb
the energy, pass it on, dissolve it.


The Exalted One said that the body is made of the four elements,
but the mind, where does it come from? And anyway, the ego and
one's personality, do they belong together, or are they separate?
The personality comes from the depths of the universe, follows
completely different signals, the body is only a vehicle.


The Perfect One advised us to become free of our desires, to stop
being driven by desires, but to look behind the scenes, to
rearrange the connections.


In doing so, get rid of the ego, because it causes so much
suffering, but what will become of me if I give it up, will I
still be alive, or will I die immediately? The ego, what a
strange construction, always wavering between doubt and
arrogance, always without direction.


Who is ready to think about it, to strain the mind palace, to
give room to uncomfortable insights, to accept the answers, not
to suppress them?


The perfect teaching of Buddha says that everything is based on
suffering, to which we, as simple human beings, are at the mercy,
because we cannot keep anything, we will lose everything,
therefore we suffer. We will lose ourselves, but also everyone
from our surroundings, all beings and things, nothing lasts
forever, and we think about that without stopping. Why am I here,
how can all this be, I don't understand. So (or so similarly) the
thought scraps blow through the thinking of every human being, it
occupies us heavily, the question of all questions pushes forward
again and again.


The way is the goal!





As from a heap of sweepings in the street lazy airs, a lotus
rises freely full of beauty, full of fragrances, so among the
people of the blind, which the sins deeply surround, bright in
the light of knowledge, shines the disciple of the Awakened One


- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama





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