Glide and soar | Great Middle Way:
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To truly simplify, things are not principally what we can reduce and eliminate from our lives —at most, they are external manifestations. We must simplify our actions.
Are there recurring thoughts, memories, and resentments that have already served their purpose and can be let go? Are there hopes and dreams to which we still cling? Are there fears that have overstayed their welcome in our consciousness? It always comes back to the mind.
Simplifying our lives is difficult, but necessary. When we are young, we have ample supplies of energy —sometimes they may even feel excessive— and we use them without restraint, establishing a pattern of energy expenditure that cannot be sustained later.
Having less energy later in life is natural. It is a physical message to slow down. It is a blessing. We should realize that we have this much to spend, and no more. The consequence of excess, in any of its many forms, is exhaustion. Exhaustion causes stress, stress causes enervation, enervation causes functional disorders, and so forth.
We can live more simply, more deliberately, more mindfully. We can slow the activities of body, speech, and mind; eliminate superfluous movement; glide and soar through life, like birds that take advantage of wind currents, barely flapping their wings.
by Tashi Nyima
by Tashi Nyima
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