Historical Significance

I awoke yesterday thinking about the historical significance of events, no, not just events, but the historical significance of everything, life, death, creation, destruction, anything, everything.
Now if I take the human point of view I can see value in historical significance of human events. But if I look further out, than our human significance diminishes, at least from what I am experiencing. What significance is there to our history, distant or close, to the history of say an ancient mountain or ocean, or what significance is there to our history to the planet we share. We are not the first dominant species, and probably not the last. So again our historical significance diminishes. What about our planets historical significance in relation to our sun or our solar system or the universe itself. Now our planets significance diminishes, our suns significance diminishes and so on. It seems to me to be no different than looking for significance in the life of a single fruit fly; its life is diminished from my life point of view.
So what significance is there in all these things we acquire, or things we think we need or all the attitudes we cling to so tightly? In the course of universal history they are all fleeting and insignificant.
My seemingly long life in relation to a fruit fly is small and fleeting in relation to our sun and almost not even measurable in relation to the universe.
What does this leave me with?? I cannot see all the stuff we want and carry as really that important any more. But what I can see, is the one thing we all share, the fruit fly, me, the sun, the solar system, the universe and countless others, we all share this present moment. That is where there is significance. Here and now. What will I want and what will I carry, what will I think, what will I express, when I view all things from this perspective?

Thank You

What's Mine

I start this day in a state of mind that allows me to see myself a bit better. A state that allows me to see my yesterday and yesterdays better. I can see that I have been getting caught up with being possessive. I titled this post "What's Mine" because that is one issue I have been struggling with lately. It doesn't really matter the content of my particular issue, it seems that this is a common experience. I can see as I struggle with this from my view, there are others with counter views that struggle as well, in their own particular ways.

So "What's Mine" anyways. Really this morning, I can't find anything that I can say is really mine! Is the things I have purchased mine, defined by some human made law perhaps. Who made them the possession of the one whom I purchased them from in the first place? Really I can't say that anything is mine. I see today that the best I can say is that I borrow everything. I eat but what goes in comes back out, in one way or another, eventually, so it is returned in one form or another eventually. So all my food or drink, sustenance, is borrowed.

I can't keep anything forever, eventually all of it is returned in some state or another. All of 'my possessions' will eventually leave me. So I just borrow them for limited times, some longer some shorter.

Really even my body will eventually return back to the earth or the universe, I just borrow it for a life time, by the way which is an undetermined length of time.

Is my soul mine, or is my soul? Again I find that I am just borrowing, borrowing everything. Nothing is mine. If nothing is mine why struggle with the possessiveness of anything.

This can perhaps be a challenging concept for some but can be freeing if you let it.

Thank You

Living For the Moment

What is this living for the moment? It seems at first to be a good idea, to me anyways. But as I look deeper I see perhaps a flaw in this expression and idea. We tend to take this idea and start looking, seeking for something. We are looking "for the moment". We will try different activities in an attempt to find the 'moment'. We sometimes become a bit irresponsible and selfish in our search for this ellusive moment. Live for the moment, indeed.

I offer a counter idea, forget living for the moment and instead live in the moment. I challenge us all to live in the moment. If you can achieve this then your search can end. You can find that your every day life, in each moment is the adventure you were seeking all along. There is no where to go to find this, there is no special activity needed to experience this. Everywhere becomes the place to experience this and every activity becomes the vehicle to experience this.

In the moment you become free.

Thank You