Strive

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While meditating today morning, I heard the sounds of so many different things. It made me wonder ,
🔥Why do I strive to live out the various aspects of life?
🔥Why do we strive?
🔥Isn’t the act of striving, the effort we make to change “what is” into something else?
At strive level, we try to make who we are into someone we aren’t.
🔥Isn’t there some sort of unacceptance present in the act of striving?
We seem to be constantly escaping what is.  The deliberate transformation of “what is” into something different is marketed to us each day.  We’re also being told that other people must be more like us. Because we are convinced that others should uphold similar “values” that we do.
I have observed that it is largely psychological.  We might have developed social structures and institutions to focus or channel our mental striving.  However, as long as mental discord and darkness are present, those institutions and structures are ineffective.
Striving signals non-acceptance.  When we strive, we’re dissatisfied in some way. striving is largely springs from the desire to change “what is”.
We constantly seek and strive to “improve” things. We look to find peace of mind, we strive to maintain control of our lives and those of others.  Striving obliterates inate understanding of “what is”. Through comparison, dogma, and conflict, we attempt to make “what is” conform to our personal opinions of what “should be”. The perception of satisfaction we seek is sterile, artificial, and a temporary escape from reality.
🔥What if we simply put an hiatus on striving?
🔥How about a simple analysis of “what is”?
🔥What about an experiment in accepting “what is”.
🔥Why haven’t we tried to curb striving for awhile?
Acceptance of “what is” will likely help us understand the solutions.🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️
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Location: Chandigarh, India

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