We do live in a beautiful world, don’t we? At least those of us who read this do. We have gone beyond the ‘ eat to live’ set and become ‘eat not to live’.
Consider this. We carefully chose the type of food we eat, not simply to stay alive but so that we can stay well. We go to great lengths, driving those extra miles to the organic store. Ordinary apples are not enough. They are best organic. They cost more but that is no issue. Yes.. we live as the gods do.
Ajahn Brahm told the humorous tale of a couple who ended up in heaven resplendent with all goodness and fringe benefits that only heaven can offer. After realizing the goodness that was theirs, the hubby gave the wifey a good whack on the head for delaying his entry to heaven. She had been feeding him all those health food all those years!
Really. Our body health is important but at the same time our mental health is also important, maybe more so. Looking around, we see many grim faces. Too many are on a mission to destroy themselves. Maybe we should learn to lift those emotional burdens off our shoulders.
We live too much by stomping to the beat of society and worse, our own expectations. We want too much of the chocolate pie. We create our own conditions which by and large are hardly attainable. Maybe it is not that they are unattainable but simply that we keep changing them for higher ones, just like upgrading to a better car. In the end those stomps become stomps of inner tantrums.
Maybe heaven is reachable by being just where we are. Dealing with our inner self could be the starting point of getting there.
