People spend thousands of dollars to go on vacation and at the time it seems to be a great idea, and in a way it is because when you are there everything seems like paradise, but the first thing to understand is wherever you go there you are which could be scary and second because of the Conditioned Mind, not only is the fantasy better than the reality, but before you know you are back home. This is not to say don’t go on vacation, but the stark reality is you can always be on vacation if your mind finds your place of peace. I’m talking from experience here because for forty nine years my life was exactly how I wanted it to be and yet I had to always reach for something to fill in a gap I didn’t understand. This gap equates to always needing to be on vacation (reaching for something), but I didn’t understand the part of wherever I went there I was. My own mind was an enemy not an ally and I had no idea this was occurring, so basically to my conditioned mind, I always needed to be planning a vacation because life was never good enough in the moment I was in; regardless of how it was there was always a gap.
Here’s the real irony in this, I was trying to fill a gap of emptiness that is still there today, but what I have come to understand is it doesn’t need filling, in its emptiness there’s fulfillment. And this is the issue with most people, they’re trying to fill a gap that doesn’t need filling because the nature of it is emptiness. That’s what a gap is, empty. So regardless of what’s used to fill it, it never gets filled, it can’t because it doesn’t need filling. Today I understand this gap is not my enemy nor does it need filling and although there are times when I do go on vacation, it’s not because I’m trying to escape to paradise, I’m in paradise everyday that I’m alive and it’s the gap of emptiness that provides this.
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