Wheel Of Life

I was reading an interesting article about the "wheel of samsara".

The article made me think about how some days we feel like we are like mice on a wheel, we just keep going, and going. We go round and round and never find the missing link.

Most importantly our egotistical ways have us convinced that we are spiritual. If we attend a worship service or share spiritual wisdom, and memes we feel that we are spiritual. We need to understand how the forces of our own nature are designed and flawed to make a change.

Our physical and psychological aspects need to be in play, and the nature of this will determine the end result.

Our egos believe we can modify what needs to be done, if we just do one small thing like a sacrifice of trying to be nice to everyone today. Then the next day we jump of the wheel and say "to hell with that". Today I think of self. We convince ourselves that our happiness comes from doing what we want. True happiness comes from the sacrifice of helping others, helping humanity. We have this constant struggle within ourselves when it comes to the euphoric feeling of happiness. Like waking up feeling depressed and then heading to the mall to buy everything you see, you get what you feel is immediate gratification, you feel happy. The issue is that is a momentary fix. I think a better understanding of how to feel happiness would be to let go, a death of your ego, then a sacrifice of your time serving someone else aside from your ego. Head down to the local food pantry, nursing home, and just be their help for the day. That will bring you closer to a true happiness. We have to have a death of our ego and the issues that cause our discomforts, we need to renew by birth bringing new life into our soul. We need to make sacrifices by serving others. Each day we need to think of emulating the divine light. Contribute to your spiritual temple through sacrifice. The sadness comes from filling the egos desires. 

“All whosoever who are happy in the world Are (so) through the wish for the happiness of others; While all whosoever who are miserable in the world Are (so) through the wish for the happiness of themselves. But what need is there to elaborate more? Just look at the difference between the two: An infantile person acting for his own self-aims And the Sage (Buddha) acting for the aims of others." -Bodhisattvacharyavatara

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Gnostic teachings