That is exactly what I felt when I looked up at the Big Buddha in Ko Samui, as he looked down upon me… ‘Where have you been, I have been waiting for you…’

15 years since I saw this Golden Face, & I will be honest it was rather emotional. It reminded me of all the things that I said I would do to make my life about life & not about what I wanted in life.

It was here in Thailand where my fascination with the Buddha & in turn Philosophy all stemmed from. It was here that I developed my ever changing Philosophy of being & existing today. Sound a little blissed out, but maybe I am, maybe I needed this again to remind me of how fickle we all can be, myself included.

Seeing all this again reminds me how some of the things that we hold as important, really have no meaning in the scheme of things, & the things that we hold on to at times only tend to bring us down.

Searching, Wanting, Needing…things, things that we wish to aspire to…in turn they make you forget the most important thing…right now. What you have now is important, not what you want tomorrow…yeah I know I say this all the time, but it is true…& the more we can live like this the better for us.

Now I am not saying I have sat under a Bhodi Tree & am enlightened, far from it but in the words of one on the greatest sages that ever lived, J Krishnamurti,

‘We seek happiness through things, through relationship, through thoughts, ideas. So things, relationship, and ideas become all important and not happiness. When we seek happiness through something, then the thing becomes of greater value than happiness itself……Things are impermanent, they wear out and are lost; relationship is constant friction & death awaits; ideas and beliefs have no stability, no permanency . We seek happiness in them and yet do not realize their impermanency. So sorrow becomes our constant companion & overcoming it our problem…To find out the true meaning of happiness, we must explore the river of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is not an end in itself. Is there a source to a stream? Every drop of water from the beginning to the end makes the river. To imagine that we will find happiness at the source is to be mistaken. It is to be found where you are on the river of self-knowledge’ (from The Book of Life - J Krishnamurti)

Be Well.

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