Again, the process of this amazes me to this day. Specifically, that people are so entrenched by what other people have to say and then swayed by their opinion, after assuming that just because they share something on this digital environment that what they have to share is of importance.

Let me tell you something. It's not.

Make up your own mind of what you think is important and real. Stop reading all those blogs out there that spew the same information over and over and over beyond count.

...Opinions of others? Who cares.

...What other people think of the issue or matter of the day or what's at hand? Does that really matter to you? I'll bet not.

So stop reading what amounts to someone else's thoughts and brain signals and wasting your oh-so-precious time doing so.

Cultivate your own thoughts. Think for yourself. Learn to trust what your mind is telling you is right about the situation or matter in front of you. What other people think is meaningless in the scheme of things, or in your life for that matter.

You need to learn what you need for yourself, by yourself, on your own. Don't try to take it from others, it can't be had. Life isn't something that can be taken, or borrowed, or lived symbiotically now that you're grown up.

There's an old saying in the spiritual realm of teachings of higher insights, which I'll badly bastardize so excuse me for that, which states that people don't look at the moon that the master is pointing to with his finger. Instead, they look at his finger.

What does this mean and what esoteric wisdom is it trying to impart? It's saying that the master, the person with the knowing, is pointing to what needs to be seen, what needs to be known, but people are looking at the object doing the pointing. That is not the way to the knowing. That is not the way to learn about the situation Life presents to you each and every moment and what needs to be culled from it to grow and develop with.

Each of us needs to learn for ourselves.

Oh, of course I know you already defiantly think that you are. But, I ask you, why are you reading this blog of mine? Do you think that I actually have something to share with you that is of importance? Yes, it has importance, but the importance is mine and my knowledge and my experience. It's something that I've experienced and have integrated into my knowing and my mental database.

I can only share that with you through description and insights. But the real knowing comes through experience: The seeing of the moon, and not the looking at the finger pointing to it. In this case it's not my finger you need to be focusing on.

There is a lot to know about this world. We're virtual babies in it, and there is so much incredible and beyond description experiences that each of us have that just go by us each and every day because we're wondering where the Life is all around us because we're too busy in our minds to see it.

We want to know what Life is all about but we're waiting for someone else to tell us. That's not the way it works.

I recall hearing on a spiritual podcast series that I listen to about the fish in the ocean asking the other fish where he can get some water to drink because he's thirsty.

To make it out of the ordinary, I always change that example to the analogy of us humans thinking that we're being oxygen-deprived when we're breathing air and have oxygen in virtually every cell of our incredible bodies. It's all around us, it's in us. Literally. But we're having trouble breathing. We can't catch our breath because we're out of breath with Life.

Life is full. Life is filled with wondrous experiences but each of those experiences is truly unique to each of us. No one can truly tell you what you need in Life. No one goes to bed with you and makes you go to sleep. You go to sleep alone. Even if you've been sleeping aside the same other person in that same bed for 50 years. You're alone. You're going to die alone. Do you think you can choose to live alone and therein fill yourself with the wonder of existence? Truly?

Life is an amazing organism. It's in us. It's around us. It sustains us. It's responsible for us. And there we are, waiting for someone else to bring it to us. Wondering when someone else is going to fill our brain with information so we have something to think about when we're bored. It's a truly vicious cycle that we have gotten ourselves into, especially with the consideration of the blessing we've all been given through the creation of this beautiful generator of Life inside of each of our skulls.

I know what I'm saying is rather harsh. But it also needs to be said, or in this case written. Sure, we all need to know certain amounts of practical and in some cases life-saving information that is now all over the Internet. But, really, how much of it truly and genuinely has the ability to change your day, or your life? I'll bet virtually none of it. There is very very little useful information out there that can impart useful learning to us, on a daily basis.

I remember reading in one of the writings from a great spiritual teacher I follow, Vernon Howard, that most people will go to their graves never having an original thought. Pun aside, think about that.

Think about the truth and the weight of that statement. Doesn't it hurt to know that that is probably true? You're thinking right now from a brain that has been filled with information from your parents, teachers, religious leaders, media and friends, spouses, and even children. It's a vicious cycle.

Where are your thoughts in all this? Where are all your original and truly your own to own experiences of life that only you 'know'? I'll bet they're not taking up a whole lot of space in that brain in your skull because you rely too heavily on what others think and have to say and what information they have to share.

Think about that statement.

If most people never have an original thought their entire life, and they're the ones that you're reading about and thinking that they have something useful to share, how is it that you're learning something that is new and original? Is it even possible? Are you learning information and teachings from people who aren't simply just repeating what has been hashed and rehashed over too many times to count through the generations and life cycle of the human race?

It's a thing to consider isn't it? That is, the fact that most people doing this blogging thing really don't even have anything original to say, myself included. There is very little that is really new in this world as far as 'information' goes.

But, oh, give me an opportunity to view the sunrise over the Pacific Ocean on a cool fall day, and I don't want information from anyone telling me about that experience.

I don't want to read about it.

I don't want to see a glossy picture of it.

I don't want to be told about it.

I just want to experience it for myself, clear and free.

And then that experience becomes a true and virgin knowing about Life, for me. No one told me about it. No one shared their description about it, as best they could via some digital e-rag. I was there. I was the witness to it via my own visual orbs and retinal cortexes to my brain, and then my heart, and finally my soul.

Think about that. Do you really need anyone telling you about life and what it is all about? Whether that telling is about the economy, relationships, religion, fitness, the earth, or even spirituality?

Sure there are many who have gone before you, but how many of them can truly and completely share that experience of the sunrise over the Pacific Ocean? They can do all that they humanly can to bring the description of it to you, they can write the most poetic prose and use the most cogent descriptors imaginable, but still, the experience is theirs, not yours.

Am I getting to you?

Am I getting in?

Am I helping you see that the moon is waiting for you to truly see it for yourself?

Am I helping you understand that only you can get yourself to that beach at sunrise, and only you can sit down in the early twilight of the day and wait for that beautiful celestial blazing sphere of life to shine its glowing radiance over the sparkling waters of the ocean and onto and into you? No one can give that to you.

No one can give you that experience, that knowing. It's up to you. It's then going to be an experience that transcends knowing, that transcends words, that can't be described.

It simply, very simply, like Life, has to be experienced. It has to be known.

How much are you willing to know for yourself what Life is all about, not what you're being told it is? How much are you willing to give up reading about what's going on in the world, your world, and instead take in the experience of it yourself?

Your brain can handle it, trust me on that. Remember, you're only using 10 percent of it, if the scientists are right. So, how about you do what you can to fill up as much of the remaining and empty 90 percent before you no longer have a life to live, a brain to fill, or a blog to read.

...Including this one from this blogging dude.

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'