All We Are Is Energy…

Hello my friends,

I have been pondering the fact that we are energy – at the most subatomic level that is all that we are; everything around us is energy, therefore every action we take can only be energy.  

Shakyamuni, (the Buddha) tolds us this, he said, “subject, object and action are all empty of inherent existence, and at the core resides compassion.” Words of my Perfect Teacher, pp

Presently, I am finding that by relaxing into my body, noticing the chronic tension and softening beyond it, helps me to experience All That Is ‘as energy’. By experiencing myself as energy, has helped me to release my fixation’s, or my attachment to my thinking. For example, we tend to believe that what we think is true (hence right, so acting as if it were real/solid) versus  thinking, this is just a thought and All Is energy, constantly moving and changing.

Being play-full does seem to be a more sane approach to life in terms of change being the one realible factor. It keeps my energy moving and vibrant. Seriousness, worry, doubt, fear of any sort, creates tension, and tension is what pulls me away from experiencing the energy As It Is.

This is where compassion plays it’s essential role. For example, do you ever wake up wondering what the heck you are doing, and what have you been doing with your life? As an experiment watch that thought.  

What I have found in myself is that it brings up tension; my shoulders tighten and my back pulls in. So in response to thinking that thought, instead, I deliberately soften those body parts, and slowly I feel the Chi (energy) moving again. Watching the tension and mental suffering I cause myself, I know I am not alone, most of us self-create such anguish. When we attach to any thinking, and we believe it to be ‘fixed’, ‘true’ or ’real’,  versus just a thought – this is the definition of suffering for a Buddhist. Compassion is essential; it arises from knowing one’s own mental suffering and that others have their own version as well.

Meditation is key to help us stabilize ourselves when we get caught in believing our thoughts to be true. Instead we realize we can be the observer of our thoughts, hence reality comes more into focus as energy – constantly shifting and changing.

But how many people are watching their thoughts, so for the sake of all beings, I must steady myself and go deeper yet, because if not me, then who? Who can change my thinking for me? What am I waiting for? What are any of us waiting for? For our partner, a parent, a friend to do it first?

Be sure, there is no mistake that you are reading this. As one of us frees ourselves, we are all directly affected.  

For the benefit of all beings, let us walk in truth and in laughter…