Maya

I've been thinking about this word a lot over the last few weeks.  The sense of the word that I am thinking about has nothing to do with an ancient people who lived in South America.  The meaning that I have been thinking about is the Hindi definition - the concept of illusion.  It's full meaning is in essence that the physical world is all fake and that the real spiritual world behind it is the truth.

Pretty deep I know, but what I have noticed is that people who I come into contact with in my day to day life all have different opinions about things.  In particular the new health care bill that is being debated.  I have not met one person who likes all of it.  For one reason or other no one seems to be all that thrilled about it.  It seems to me that no one knows the whole truth about it.  One side claims that it will save us billions of money, the other side the opposite.  One side says the government will do a poor job running the whole system and the other the opposite.  So on and so forth to infinity.

Who is right, who is wrong or is it all just an illusion?

The same is true of another subject I was reading about ADHD - what is the real cause of this disorder.  Is it a disease, behavioral problem, the lack of good parenting, or something completely unrelated and unknown.

Illusion.

Behind all of the arguing and possibilities that are "right" according to those people who give the opinion.  Due to the circumstances that have lead me to the point in my life that I find myself at now I have been extremely disillusioned.  This has probably been the most important thing to happen to me.  I don't know how to explain in the proper words how these negative events have been a driving force in my life, but that is how it has worked out.

If the world had not turned on me I would have never been able to see what I do when I examine something and never been lead down the path I am on.

So back to the illusion side of things.  I was recently asked why I didn't share more of my insights and spiritual   thoughts and discoveries.  Well to some point I think to get to the point of understanding you have to seek it out for yourself.  It's something that can't be just given to you without effort and if you aren't ready to hear it, then it's probably not something that will be helpful or even make much sense.

So bottom line start looking at things around you and question even the things you hold most dear.  What is most concerning to me is those things that tend to divide people, like health care, politics, global warming or gay marriage just to name a few.  Is one side more right than another or is there truth in what both sides say?  Do the things people say resonate down to your very soul or do they just cause emotions to well up inside you?  Emotions like anger or fear tend to solidify the illusion that you are seeing even more.  At least they do for me, the calmer and more serene I am able to keep myself the more I am able to see all of this.

I would be a fool if I walked around this world looking at things and saying this is all illusion and it doesn't matter.  That would not be responsible either - after all I still need to earn money, put bread on the table and keep a roof over my head!  What I am trying to say through all of this is that your life can be a lot more enjoyable if you remember that much of what consumes your day is illusion and that for the most part it really doesn't matter.  I'm speaking here more of the things that cause distress because even though at the time they may seem like big problems it is highly unlikely that you will even care about them a month from now.

Try to look beneath the surface of what you experience in this world and if you look at things in the right way many times you will find as I have found more and more that much of life is illusion and the reality that lies beneath the surface illusion is more interesting and makes a whole lot more sense than what you first see.

Sorry again to those who thought this was going to be about the Maya people, 2012 or something like that.  Perhaps that will be a subject for future writing...