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Questions come again and again in our daily life:

Why do I suffer?

Why do I feel sad?

How can I find balance in my life?

Why do I want to run away from my daily life?

Why do things happen in a way that makes me disappointed?

Why am I scared of facing something that happens unexpectedly?

How can I get rid of uncomfortable feelings?

Why should I give up alcohol or cigarettes when they help me forget uncomfortable feelings?

How can I live happier?

How can I have a better life?

How could things go the way I want them to?

How can I achieve everything that I want in my life?

Are these questions familiar to us?

When we look deeply into these questions, what could we find out?

Maybe something like: when I can answer all these questions, I will be a happy person. 

???

When we look insightfully into these questions, we will find onething incommon for all of them. 

It doesn’t matter if they sound negative, sound stuck or sound great; all of these questions have only one purpose. 

THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING THE “I” – the “I” center. 

In daily life, things are mostly divided into such feelings: like and dislike.

I like to do this; I don’t like to do that.

Everyday things repeat again and again. Why is this life so boring with such repetitive work?

Why are people so unsatisfied? I have done everything I could do for them, but they have never appreciated it. 

Yesterday I was so happy because someone told me: 

“You are so pretty; you are such an intelligent person”. 

That person made my day, and I like this person so much.

If we pay attention to all these things that appear in our mind – our questions, our actions, our judgement in daily life – could we see: 

Everything again turns around the big “I”– CHASING HAPPINESS UND REFUSING THE SUFFERING.

So, what should I do?

Again “I” 

Should I refuse myself? Should I live only for others?

???

Let’s think together!

Could we just do things without putting the feeling of like or dislike on them?

Could we just completely concentrate on the things that we are doing? 

Could we see things naturally with full excitement like the first time we ever did them?

Could we see a person as if it was the first time we ever met them without having an image and judgement from our own knowledge? 

Could we break down all our images, our judgments, our experiences, even if they are good or bad, to see things as they really are?

Could we take off those glasses to see real life?

Could we understand our own feelings and their meaning?

Could we face our feelings even if they are bad or good? 

Could we accept ourselves, accept how we really are, even at that moment we are awful or great?

Could we just accept ourselves by simply observing without giving any judgement or trying to run away?

Why can kids come to each other so easily? 

Why can they laugh happily together over small things while adults cannot? What is wrong there?

What creates the barriers between us?

Are they experience, culture, education, politics, ideas …?

Are we not the same?

Could we break all these barriers to return to a true person – a pure child inside us? 

Could we just live from moment to moment without trying to profit from it; without thinking if it is good or not good for ourselves?

Could we just live from moment to moment without expecting: it should be like this or like that?

Could we just live from moment to moment with the full value that life gives to us as a gift????!!!

(Rigi – September night)