Who is it that is doing what is being done? How can it be that trillions upon trillions of experiences are somehow intricately and sequentially tied together to create what is occurring in the present moment as now, and after now. Is this possible?

The mind boggles at the possibility of this occurring and exactly how it is supposed to occur and be controlled or become manifest. It simply cannot be fathomed how something as complicated as one life can be controlled through the unmanifest, never mind seven billion lives and countless events and precursors to those events.

What is it that is living our lives? Is it us? Is it something else? The vast majority of the population believes that something else is here and it is the one making the choices and defining what it is that we're doing in the present moment. These are the people who follow some sort of religion wherein they are simply the messengers of the intent of the unseen.

Others say that no such relationship and control exists as there is nothing unseen, only what is seen.

Obviously, both ways are right depending upon who is asked. To put two differing views into one perspective simply justifies one perspective at the expense of the other.

Also, to the person holding the opinion and belief, the belief is lived as if true so that is all that matters, especially to the person holding that belief.

Is it a matter of trying to convince a person that what they deem correct and true is the truth of the matter when it comes to existential concepts such as this?

Well, that is why wars occur. People cannot agree and think that agreement is necessary for both perspectives to exist.

We all believe what we believe. We all think that what we think is correct is correct, otherwise we wouldn't be thinking it, and believing it.

Is there something wrong with one belief over another? Well, to many, there is. To some there isn't. It's a matter of allowing and accepting.

Seen, unseen. They're opposite sides of the same coin.

Neither matters, but both do.

Can I assume that the words herein are the right ones? Well, to me, they are, otherwise this page would be blank, or full of other words and text. To you they may also be right, and yet perhaps not. If you resonate with them then they are right to you. If you're aggravated by them then they clash with your innate sense of what is right.

So, even though these words are read, what is it that is reading them? What is it that is perceiving the typing and the letters and comprehending and formulating into words and ideas and concepts what is being put into the brain as the eyes move across the screen or page.

Is it just the action of your reading this page? Or is it you reading this on behalf of something else?

The mere asking as to whether we are being lived or we are living life is something that most don't want to think about if it's a matter of being lived.

We want to think that the life we're living is ours and that we're the one controlling every subtle nuance and factor during our days. That is why we suffer so. We think that it is up to us to control what is occurring and should be occurring, instead of just accepting what is happening as it is happening. To do this would mean to abdicate control to something that we can't control. To do so would mean to acquiesce to the fact that we aren't in control of what is happening.

I remember the scene in The Matrix when Neo was told by the Oracle "Don't worry about (knocking over) the vase.", and he asked "What vase?", and then he knocked over and broke the vase on the stand next to him as he moved to become aware of it. He was told by the Oracle that his mind would really get bent up in a noodle when he thought about the incident later and whether he would've knocked over the vase if he hadn't been told not to worry about knocking over the vase.

This whole idea of being in control of what is is something that is very, very personal to each of us. We each have our own belief system and way of relating to the world innately tied up to the belief that we are in control, or we're being controlled. It's not a matter of reading a few words in an e-rag such as this and then deciding something different one way or the other.

Our entire way of relating to our existence is tied up to a belief that we control our destiny, or we don't. We control, or we're controlled.

We live, or we're being lived.

I used to think one way, now I'm beginning to think another way. I'm realizing that life is meant to be lived, as it is, and as it appears, not as I want it to be lived.

I'm being lived anyway, whether I believe it to be otherwise or not.

And you?

Written by Andre Best
http://www.andrebest.com
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