Do you include the ‘other’?

We seem to have trained ourselves to include only what we like, what we accept, what we know, and what makes us feel good. Do you notice that?! Do you notice that you want to feel good all the time? I’m not saying there is anything wrong with that. I’m simply saying that in this physical life, we witness day and night, four seasons (or less depending on where you live), dark and light, etc. Those changing scenes and experiences are also perceived mentally like happiness and sadness, feeling peaceful or agitated, or even in the new spiritual business terms high energy frequency or low energy frequency, and so on. We even include people and exclude people. We include our children and exclude the neighbours’ children, we include our friends and exclude our enemies, etc.

So, it seems to me that the tendency is to exclude what we don’t want to feel and include only what we want to feel. On a material level, I want comfort or luxury; on a mental level, I want happiness; on a sensual level, I want pleasure; and on a spiritual business level I want high energy frequency (whatever that means) or even enlightenment.

Do you see that this pursuit is to exclude what we don’t want to experience?! But can we witness the day without the night?! Can we experience summer without winter?! Then how come, when it comes to what we say ‘this is my life’ we want to be selective of what we feel or experience?!

Do you think it is possible to include all seasons of the weather as well as all seasons of the life?! Embracing material scarcity as well as material prosperity, embracing sadness as well as happiness, embracing the low mood and the high mood, embrace the enemy and the friend, embrace health and illness, and so on. 

All is welcome, all is home, for That which is, is untouched by the changes, seasons, plays, stories, and dramas.