As Donal (an Irish Buddhist teacher) articulated quite beautifully this Friday, most of us are on some quest for the truth (when we are not too busy feeding our habitual patterns). We are looking for something beyond our suffering and discontentment. We have an intimation of something “other” just beyond our grasp. Most of us do not find it. We are looking in the wrong place.
The “truth” is in the ground and background of your life. Looking elsewhere is merely fooling yourself. The meaning of life is right here, and all the while, we seek arrival in a complex web of ideals and fantasies.
Return to where you are.
I may post a mixture of sad and self-revelational experiences to this website. This is the way it is. Somehow, I am sorting through it all, and I’m confident that I’m getting closer to the essence of this paradox that we call existence.
#1 by Jim and Tsungi Makings at March 27th, 2011
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Hi Tom,
I think the meaning of life is staring us in the face.Each of us have the meaning of life in us. So the meaning of life to me is my life because without my life i would have no meaning of life because i would not exist.
Tom i think you are a really cool man,
Much love to you and your lovely wife and children. Jim
#2 by Patch at March 28th, 2011
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I’m trying to get my mind around a book called ‘Buddism made simple’, it all makes so much sense, I’d love to get to grips with it more but I’m thinking it’s not an instant thing, maybe my the end of the decade I might be more enlightened! xxx
#3 by James at March 28th, 2011
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what’s it all about? Not being obtuse; but it’s so difficult I think as short breaks I might start thinking about what it’s not all about… who knows, the second track might lead me some of the way without me knowing it.
#4 by Julian Priestman at April 19th, 2011
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Tom,
You are truly an inspirational man. As a read through the posts that you have made, and the things that you have written, I get a feeling of nothing but utter respect and admiration for you. You are deeply insightful, strong and wise beyond your years. You are, beyond doubt, the epitome of what our school motto, Ex Fide Fiducia, stands for.
Carry on the good fight.
Regards,
Julian