What Really Matters in Life?
What really matters in life?
In a moment of enlighten listening, this occurred during my period of personal journal writing, I was drawn to concepts that I had uncovered from the history and philosophy research I had done for my cultural history class. Ideas from the Buddhist (eastern) and Stoic (western) philosophies, pass through my mind in their explanation of the pursuit of happiness.
People think happiness is getting away from their troubles, traumas, or discontent, and that this will lead to happiness. What I learned in my study from the Prosperos and its core classes, were the keys or instruction in ways to use Eastern and Western philosophical thought - to understand which parts of your life to value and thus to develop a wisdom that allows you to shed your attachment to the parts that don’t enhance your well-being.
I found that Life is engagement, and the ancient philosophies were not really about having an empty slate for a mind, that shuts out all stimuli, but about recreating, and reusing that stimuli to bring you back into a higher consciousness with its wholeness and perfection, to see it, even in the mist of chaos. To practice, practice, practice the ‘Sight’ of Wholeness, Completeness, and the connectedness of the Oneness that is All there Is.
I am looking forward to working with many of you in classes and workshops in 2024.
Aloha,
Calvin