20/11/2025
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Joy is spontaneous.
It is of the moment.
How is your joy? Do you look at things with awe, reverence and gratitude?
Completely absorbed; immersed with a flower, a tree, a river, a waterfall, the sun on your face, or even the rain on you, or the soft silence of falling snow?
Do you see rays of sunshine pierce through windows, to shine on walls in a room? Do you feel the in and out breath, the source of life, each moment, keeping your body and consciousness within you?
When you look around at the world in this pure way, you become joy.
Everything is here to guide you to this realisation: that you are one with everything. You are not separate. This is not about a you versus something/someone, and if it is, you've lost the magic. You are fighting existence itself, which is really you, so you are fighting yourself! This creates a lot of suffering for you, your body and your mental fitness.
Growling at the weather is fighting the weather.
Moaning at yourself or your body's failings is fighting you and your body.
Judging or criticising others is merely projecting out your own inner judgment about life onto someone else. It's easier to blame others than look at your own reactions.
The shift into awareness, the movement into and of the present moment, drops all of these growls/moans/judgments, and you simply exist, in gratitude and love for everything - not because you're trying to look at things with positivity (another thought) - but because that is what you ARE.
Sit right now, close your eyes, and BREATHE. Feel that delicious air entering your body, nourishing you, giving you life, giving you movement and energy.
Smile, and then open your eyes and LOOK. Really look. Look at the amazingness of forms around you.
At some wondrous moment of insight, you will become joy, and you will understand that all these thoughts are momentary; all these emotions and fears are momentary; all the problems in your life are momentary.
It all starts with being where you are, in total, complete acceptance of your life, with full awareness of it. All the woe, all the angst, all the judgments...watch them without using them...just allow them to roar up, scream, then die down. What remains is the real you, the real joy, the complete silent and unmoving, luminous beingness: this is health, vitality, peace and joy looking back at itself.