It often feels as if the world is falling apart.
News, conflicts, instability, uncertainty. Wherever the mind turns, it finds disorder.
News, conflicts, instability, uncertainty. Wherever the mind turns, it finds disorder.
So a question arises.
What should be done. How do we fix this world.
Look more closely.
The sense of a disordered world appears as a feeling, an image, a stream of thoughts in awareness. It feels real and urgent. Yet it is still something seen.
The world you are troubled by is not standing here.
What stands here is a thought about it.
What stands here is a thought about it.
Even the one who sees the world as broken is an appearance.
This “me” who worries and searches for answers is part of the same movement.
This “me” who worries and searches for answers is part of the same movement.
Waiting for a bad scene in a movie to change and feeling sad because of it is ignorance. The scene is only a play. It does not ask to be corrected. In the same way, the world that appears in awareness is a play.
People spend enormous energy watching what might happen.
War, lack of resources, unstable governments, loss of work.
The mind keeps scanning the horizon. This outward attention strengthens fear and keeps it alive.
War, lack of resources, unstable governments, loss of work.
The mind keeps scanning the horizon. This outward attention strengthens fear and keeps it alive.
Yet what is actually here is simple.
This breath. This seeing. This being.
When attention returns to what is present, imagined futures lose their power. The body relaxes. The mind stops running ahead of life.
This breath. This seeing. This being.
When attention returns to what is present, imagined futures lose their power. The body relaxes. The mind stops running ahead of life.
The only movement needed now is for the mind to fall back into the heart, by resting in what is here and letting thoughts pass without being followed.
If any action is truly required, it does not depend on personal will. It does not wait for permission. What needs to happen will happen through a greater movement.
If any action is truly required, it does not depend on personal will. It does not wait for permission. What needs to happen will happen through a greater movement.
The sense of “I must decide” is part of the play.
Life does not pause for approval.
Life does not pause for approval.
When this is seen, the urge to repair the illusion weakens. Not from indifference, but from clarity. The world may still appear chaotic, but it no longer governs the inner space.
You do not escape the world.
You stop being overwhelmed by the image of it.
You stop being overwhelmed by the image of it.
Peace is not produced by order.
It remains when resistance falls away.
It remains when resistance falls away.
From this quiet clarity, action, if it arises, is no longer driven by fear.
It moves as life itself.
It moves as life itself.
Nothing essential is missed.
Nothing real is delayed.
Nothing real is delayed.