For many, inner satisfaction is a calmness within one’s being that can be obtain in such things a meditation and/or not being stressed. Some find it in doing enjoyable activities. Some would say inner satisfaction is an inner bliss and joy. However, the inner satisfaction discussed here is something different. It can encompass such ideas but is a feeling and an awareness within one’s being that can be described in a variety of ways. But most importantly it never runs dry or leaves no matter what is happening in our external world or what we are doing in the world.
For example, many sit and meditate and then go into the world only to loose the calmness and peace they had obtained. The solution for many is to use mediation to create the habit of calmness such that calmness is not so easily lost in the every day world and use a preestablished focus, something like focusing on breathing, to return to a calm state. An inner satisfaction is different. The awareness of the inner satisfaction is what leads us in the world such that whatever we do we have a peace and calmness within our being. To sit and meditate when the awareness asks us to do something will cause tension.
Most of us have some idea of what a calmness within our being feels like. Most of us have been sufficiently agitated and know what it feels like to be in an inner peace relative to our agitation. We all have probably observed an agitated pool of water with ripples and a calm pool of water with no ripples. Most of us have probably experienced the equivalent of these two states within our being at some time in our life in one way or another.
In looking at the types and kinds of things which cause us to become agitated, may spiritual, religious and esoteric traditions suggest there is something wrong with the physical experience and encourage detachment if not transcendence from what we physically experience. Although attachment to what is physical is seen as potentially harmful, normally there is no judgment form these traditions about become attached to seeking spiritual experiences. However, relative to obtaining inner satisfaction, what was found in the exploration of our creativity, not can be nothing farther from the truth. Any attachment has the possibility of robbing us of our inner satisfaction as does any detachment.
The inner satisfaction discussed here is something different than what most have experienced and/or are lead to experience. It is not joy or pleasure as mind understands it. It is not found in any attachment of mind or what mind thinks and believes. It is not joy, pleasure or happiness in contrast to pain. One can be in a deep inner bliss and inner satisfaction even when in pain. In fact, the inner satisfaction can make the pain understandable and tolerable.
In seeking to create inner satisfaction, we need to remember or realize, which ever the case may be, we are the awareness of the experience we have. We are not the experience. Our mind only knows what it experience. As such mind is not the awareness and we are not the mind we have. But mind remembers what it has experience and naturally seeks pleasure and avoids that which it considers painful.
The issue we face is engagement not detachment. It is about engaging life and what we experience in a very particular way. It is about engaging the truth of our being and living our truth in all ways in the world in which we find ourselves.
Much of what happens in life leads us to believe that we must somehow detach from what we experience, transcend the physical, achieve some type and kind of spiritual state that we free ourselves from the body, from pain, from suffering and the like. Yet there is an alternative options. It is to realized there is a reason why we would want to be physical and go and achieve that reason. There is great freedom in doing this. In doing this we can come to see much of what we see around us and experience is only vehicle and the journey we ourselves have elected to experience for whatever reason we may have.
Inner satisfaction can be described in several ways and each will have a unique way of experiencing it and describing it. It can bee seen as a calmness within our being and/or an inner satisfaction or contentment which can be characterized as bliss or joy, that never runs dry no matter what is happen in the external world. Some experience this inner satisfaction as: a fullness of being; an expansion of one’s being; an inner freedom; being full of life; a desire to engage life; a passion for life; being in "the flow;" being in the "now," or simply in a state of wonderment and "ah." Wonderment at how and what Creation really is and how it works such that one is in "ah." That is, they are speechless and all one can utter is "ah" at what they perceive.
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For many, inner satisfaction is a calmness within one’s being that can be obtain in such things a meditation and/or not being stressed. Some find it in doing enjoyable activities. Some would say inner satisfaction is an inner bliss and joy. However, the inner satisfaction discussed here is something different. It can encompass such ideas but is a feeling and an awareness within one’s being that can be described in a variety of ways. But most importantly it never runs dry or leaves no matter what is happening in our external world or what we are doing in the world.
For example, many sit and meditate and then go into the world only to loose the calmness and peace they had obtained. The solution for many is to use mediation to create the habit of calmness such that calmness is not so easily lost in the every day world and use a preestablished focus, something like focusing on breathing, to return to a calm state. An inner satisfaction is different. The awareness of the inner satisfaction is what leads us in the world such that whatever we do we have a peace and calmness within our being. To sit and meditate when the awareness asks us to do something will cause tension.
Most of us have some idea of what a calmness within our being feels like. Most of us have been sufficiently agitated and know what it feels like to be in an inner peace relative to our agitation. We all have probably observed an agitated pool of water with ripples and a calm pool of water with no ripples. Most of us have probably experienced the equivalent of these two states within our being at some time in our life in one way or another.
In looking at the types and kinds of things which cause us to become agitated, may spiritual, religious and esoteric traditions suggest there is something wrong with the physical experience and encourage detachment if not transcendence from what we physically experience. Although attachment to what is physical is seen as potentially harmful, normally there is no judgment form these traditions about become attached to seeking spiritual experiences. However, relative to obtaining inner satisfaction, what was found in the exploration of our creativity, not can be nothing farther from the truth. Any attachment has the possibility of robbing us of our inner satisfaction as does any detachment.
The inner satisfaction discussed here is something different than what most have experienced and/or are lead to experience. It is not joy or pleasure as mind understands it. It is not found in any attachment of mind or what mind thinks and believes. It is not joy, pleasure or happiness in contrast to pain. One can be in a deep inner bliss and inner satisfaction even when in pain. In fact, the inner satisfaction can make the pain understandable and tolerable.
In seeking to create inner satisfaction, we need to remember or realize, which ever the case may be, we are the awareness of the experience we have. We are not the experience. Our mind only knows what it experience. As such mind is not the awareness and we are not the mind we have. But mind remembers what it has experience and naturally seeks pleasure and avoids that which it considers painful.
The issue we face is engagement not detachment. It is about engaging life and what we experience in a very particular way. It is about engaging the truth of our being and living our truth in all ways in the world in which we find ourselves.
Much of what happens in life leads us to believe that we must somehow detach from what we experience, transcend the physical, achieve some type and kind of spiritual state that we free ourselves from the body, from pain, from suffering and the like. Yet there is an alternative options. It is to realized there is a reason why we would want to be physical and go and achieve that reason. There is great freedom in doing this. In doing this we can come to see much of what we see around us and experience is only vehicle and the journey we ourselves have elected to experience for whatever reason we may have.
Inner satisfaction can be described in several ways and each will have a unique way of experiencing it and describing it. It can bee seen as a calmness within our being and/or an inner satisfaction or contentment which can be characterized as bliss or joy, that never runs dry no matter what is happen in the external world. Some experience this inner satisfaction as: a fullness of being; an expansion of one’s being; an inner freedom; being full of life; a desire to engage life; a passion for life; being in "the flow;" being in the "now," or simply in a state of wonderment and "ah." Wonderment at how and what Creation really is and how it works such that one is in "ah." That is, they are speechless and all one can utter is "ah" at what they perceive.