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18. I'm A Buddha

Well look at it this way: I have the belly for it and I sit down a lot. I'm the right age (70) and my experience is varied. I meditate daily. I've got enough formal education and a fair amount of the self-variety. I've been a teacher and I like to talk and explain things. Enough? Well, how about if I promise to teach you to be happy? I mean happy no matter what happens to you or what you bring on yourself. Still not enough? Even if there's no charge and no experience necessary?

The only prerequisite is for you to think and you're already doing that all the time. I do the pointing out and offer the demonstrations and you do the thinking and you get the experience. Sound fair? I think it's the deal of your life and 'an offer you can't refuse'. But, of course, you will always do, as you already have been doing, exactly what you want. I don't have any problem with that at because that's exactly what I do.

Let's get the big stuff out of the way first. You are an immensely powerful, immortal being with a fun job to do. You have been directed both externally from others and internally from yourself to be aware of what you are. You have been specifically advised to be relaxed and happy in your job and your job is to experience Life.

The first thing this Buddha says is 'SLOW DOWN'. You should be experiencing more and deeper what you are doing and you're not. Sorry, but there it is. Please do not misquote or mis-hear the Buddha or get any other implication beyond exactly what I said. (I didn't say 'Don't' or 'Stop' or anything like that.) There's a great deal going on in your life and to see the myriad connections of your actions you simply have to slow down.

The second thing Buddha says is 'APPRECIATE'. You should be appreciating the hell out of every single minute of your life. The good stuff, the bad, the warm, the cold, the wet, the dry, the boring, the exciting all of it. You simply are not getting all the juice that, as Experiencors, you could be getting.

The third thing Buddha says is 'DREAM MORE'. The paltry level of dreaming you are doing is very, very far from your capacity. Take yours cue from books in the 'Alice In Wonderland' genre. Try more things, for heaven's sake. Learn to tango, speak Spanish, cook a soufflé, make love in a hammock. If you can't manage that, do a Walter Mitty routine and imagine you're a stockbroker, plumber, warehouseman, nurse, anything other than what you're doing. Because when you daydream you vastly increase your reality-based options.

With you thinking and bearing in mind the Big-3 just mentioned Buddha will now tell you specifically how to do what you are already doing.

Whatever you decide to do, do it as best you can. Take the time to do it right. You can't ever complete the whole job of your life but you can take-to-completion whatever aspect of whatever job interests you. There's a phrase in the insurance business that describes the cash value of your policy at any given time. It's called 'the surrender-value', i.e., what it's worth whenever you decide to cash it in. Buddha says think of the surrender-value of every aspect of every job so that if you can complete it, wonderful, and if you can't finish it, what is it worth when you stop? What is the surrender-value of your partially completed jobs? Leave any job 'in a good place' is another way of saying this.
Never fear to find out. Find out what? Find out about anything at all. Find out how much the vacation, the new car, the computer course actually costs in time and money. Then, and only then, decide if you want to make the commitment. Avoid presuming like the plague. It doesn't hold up in the law-courts and it doesn't hold up in Life.
Appreciate mistakes for what they are: teaching-cues that are of inestimable value for they teach, instantly and correctly, to do something else. And they're free!

The 'happy' promise I made you in the first paragraph was a lie. I can't teach you anything. The result(s) you are experiencing you discovered by yourself. Now, let me get back on my dais.

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