Two Questions For THE PATH

Today I read a Zen Buddhist book that mentioned three great life questions: where did I come from, who am I, where am I going?  If you are doing any kind of spiritual or meditative work, then you recognize these questions as Seeker questions, questions that cause a person to start seeking the answers to her or himself. When a person seeks, he or she begins to walk upon THE PATH, which leads them inwards towards True Self, the one that doesn't die and has always been here. When one finds true self,  the three great questions are answered, and one becomes self realized, or enlightened.

The amazing thing is that no one can do this for you except for yourself, no one can tell you or show you exactly what this ultimate truth is, so you must practice and discover this truth all by yourself!  After all, I can talk all day long about what its like to swim in the ocean but until you do it, you won't experience the truth of ocean swimming. Before actual experience is a lot of talk, borrowed knowledge, and projection, but after actual experience comes self knowledge, which leads to self truth.

For example, one of the pieces to my self truth is what makes me happy, and my answer is certainly not the same for all people - it is my perspective and my truth and even if there are loved ones and close friends, they are NOT me since every person is a unique expression of universal energies.  And if I don't know the answer this piece of my self truth, it certainly would help me to SEEK out that answer by myself!!

So this Seeking takes the form of methods and Paths. I must experience different methods until I find what works for me and then I know I am on The Path.  It doesn't mean that these methods and beliefs and energies are forever, it just means that in the present time, they are my truth.  And as I find out my truths, I begin to go deeper to discover universal truths within myself.  Thus comes self understanding and realization.  And perhaps even enlightenment.

There is always a right path just for YOU.  It is located in the present moment and can be found by asking two simple questions and being aware of where that answer is coming from, mind or heart or both.

These questions are:
1. What can I do NOW?
2.  How can I feel better NOW?

The point of power in life is always the present moment.  That past moment is gone, and you can't change it.
You can sit there for lifetimes repeating the the stories and feeling regret or guilt or something negative, but face it, the unlimited potential of life is NOW!

But the future looks so promising and better!  Maybe I should worry about that, bringing past energy into the future, and maybe I should put all my energy there so that I can miss out on all that is happening now.  And if it takes ten steps to reach that future and if I don't take that first step now, how can I progress forward in life?  The present is NOW, the opportunity is NOW, the miracle of life is NOW!

So ask WHAT CAN I DO NOW?   Memorize, practice, repeat this in your mind - for this is how you move up The Path.  Even if the answer is nothing, accept it and move on.   If you know that the best you can do now is nothing then so be it, let go and let your energy move towards the answer to the second question.  When you are NOW, you escape the blame and negative energies from the past and let go of  worry and concern about the future.  You become aware and focused on NOW, which means you might actually manifest a miracle!

The second question is directed towards your heart: How can I feel better NOW?  All of our suffering comes from our mind.  Suffering is looping energy, continually replaying or arguing about negative stuff that happened in the past, and creating stress chemicals in the body. Worry is also looping energy, casting our negative patterns towards the future and becoming paralyzed or indecisive.  The key to escaping negative loops and negative patterns is to FEEL GOOD RIGHT NOW!

By asking the question, how can I feel better NOW, we open the google search engine of the mind and start listing more positive options.  And once we begin to focus on those positive options, we drop negativity and move to higher energies.  And then when we FEEL GOOD, we bring ourselves into NOW, the loop is broken and we are one step further on The Path, giving ourselves an opportunity to attract better and better energies and options.  We are feeling from the heart, too busy experiencing NOW to analyze, and thus we open the door to unlimited possibility, even Divine Truth.

These two simple questions CAN change your life and move you higher up The PATH!

So start practicing and applying these questions to your daily life 24/7.   After a month or so, it will become a new habit, a new pattern, a new belief, a new method.  And when it is so, then you will be happier and at a higher state of being!