Subject #22: On the old and the new

Everything changes - always has, always will. In our life, people come and go, things happen, conditions change and we change. Our vision is very limited. We don’t usually see anything new in our daily life. Nothing really amazes us because we are blind to reality. We don’t really see things, we see just ideas. Everything that we see at the moment is new, fresh, but we see it as old.

It’s same with thoughts. New becomes old and old becomes new. I do not know how accurate the following statement is, but even if it’s somewhat exaggarated it certainly has lots of truth in it as well:

We have approximately 50,000 - 60,000 thoughts per day. Unfortunately 95% of those thoughts we had today are the same ones we had yesterday!

Whatever problems, worries, fears, doubts and desires we have, they are like a circle, which we deal with every day. Every day same stuff. Every now and then we escape from that circle for a moment – and then fall into it again. We feed that circle by putting more and more energy into that. That constant circle of realizing and forgetting is another way to understand term reincarnation. We escape (”die”) from concept of ”me” for a short moment and then immediately born again into that circle. When one starts to recognize the pattern, stepping out of it becomes easier.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
~Tuli Kupferberg