Life is short and well know it, one moment were all 13 the next were 30.Most of the time were all caught up with are fast moving life styles to slow down and take a breath and enjoy the simple things in life. In my life I try to slow down and look around as much as I can I believe this is why I have learned to make great desiccation with rational thinking. Life is like music it goes by so fast and if not composed right it will sound like a disaster but if it’s slowed down and enjoyed it will make the most wonderful sound in life. If you don’t do what you want to do now there’s a chance you won’t do it ever so live your life to the fullest and enjoy it. Like I have always wished I would have not given up on playing the viola. So the other day when I held one in my hand I realized that’s what was missing in my life a senses of satisfaction filled me, and now I’m going to be picking it back up. Without living the life you want you will never hear the sound you are looking for. I have always wished without living the life you want you will never hear the sound you are looking for.
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
What would people do to reach true satisfaction or Enlightenment?
People spend their entire life searching for true peace looking for Nirvana. People give up their possessions and life styles to reach this goal, just as Siddhartha did. In my case I would probably not give anything up to reach my nirvana, I strongly believe that a person should be happy with the way they are and should not have to give anything up to reach true enlightenment. Once your able to be happy with the way you are and can accept yourself then you have reached the goal of true enlightenment. In the book Siddhartha falls in love with a goldiging woman and has a child with her. His Kamala dyes later on in the story and his son decides he dos'nt like his dads life style o he leaves, Siddhartha must then be able to let go of his son and come to peace with the idea of his son growing up and choosing his own path in order to truly be happy. This is one of many things that Siddhartha dos to reach his goal.
The other day I went and saw the princess frog a Walt Disney movie in the movie the main character Tiana wants more than anything to be able to open up her own restaurant in the honor of her dad. She is poor black woman in a time were that was a hard goal to achieve but yet she works herself out to save for the restaurant. Tiana miss out on a lot of things girls her age are doing but in her mind she doesn’t care because she believes it will give her true happiness. In the end she finds that it’s true love and care for herself that will give her this sense of peace and freedom. See we all have to search are selves to be able to find what we truly need to be happy and enlightened. Personally I have come to peace wit who I am but I’m not done learning and I don’t plan on giving anything about myself up.
What does it mean to reach true Enlightenment ?
To reach true enlightenment is said to obtain true peace and freddom.Most of us spend are entire life searching for true enlightenment. But what dos it means to reach enlightenment? Well first let’s start with the actual definition of enlighten:
“A blessed state in which the individual transcends desire and suffering and attains Nirvana.” - www.answers.com
In the book “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse the main character Siddhartha searches for Nirvana.Siddharta and his friend Govinda go on a life long journey to ovation true enlightenment learning from any one that’s willing to teach their wisdom. Siddhartha gives up his life style in order to obtain his goal. He gets put trough several test and overcomes them, in the end he dos find his Nirvana thanks to the guidance of a ferryman.
To me reaching true enlightenment dos not take so long as giving up everything to go on a lifelong quest to find Nirvana. Enlightenment means to find inerpeace and love, So in reality all you have to do is search your soul and be able to accept the reality of who you are, what you done ,and were your going. You don’t have to fallow guidelines search the internet or go to church in order to be happy, you just have to accept yourself.
