Extend Your Dash

To live your life to the fullest is to be aware of each moment as it is. In each moment you can at least relinquish some control of the Conditioned Mind by being aware of what is truly occurring...

It’s amazing how quickly the days go by. It seems like it’s the morning and before you know it it’s nighttime. All the stuff that goes on in between just seems like a blur, and one day just like that when some condition happens which doesn't support life anymore, it’s over. On most gravestones there’s usually the date life begins and the date life ends, in between those dates there’s a dash; the dash is our life. Much occurs in between those dates, but it goes so fast; the dash is the sum total of what occurs.

The question is how can we slow down life? I don't really think this is possible, but there can be more awareness of what is truly going on. The more awareness there is the better chance there is of living it to the fullest. Maybe we can extend our dash to be more in line with something like this ---------- instead of this - lol. To me it seems the more awareness I have of my emotional state the less life controls me and the less I think about how fast it goes by. Emotions are tied into the state of being and the state of being is tied into how quickly it seems life goes by. When emotions are stable so is one’s state of being and with a stable state of being there’s more awareness of the dash. Life goes by regardless of one’s state of being, but at least it will seem to go a little slower when there’s awareness of what’s occurring as opposed to living in a state of unconsciousness. In a state of unconsciousness, by the time that you awaken it may be to late to extend your dash because the day that life ends my not be far behind...