Paul Lowe writes:
A real-life experience of the Eastern classical story:
'Searching for Ones' Self'  Thank for sharing this Martinchen.

Those that wake up usually say there is nothing to do, it happens on its
own. Maybe, but most of them, like Martinchen, were total in their searching
- before it happened 'on its own.'

There is the classical story of a young man starting out to search for The
Tree of Life. On his way out of the village he saw a man sitting under a
tree. He asked the man if he knew the direction to go to look for the tree.
The pointed ahead.

Years later the now much older young man came back to his village -
unsuccessful in finding The Tree.
Just before he came to the village he saw the same man - sitting under The
Tree of Life! And he understood. Even if the man had told him he would not
have recognised it.

It is here. It is now. We just have to slow down and experience this very
moment - unconditionally. 

To see Paul's blog in NewRealities go to:  http://www.newrealities.com/index.

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Martinchen wrote:

I am a school teacher and I was travelling around for about twenty years
in order to search for myself. I tried all kinds of stuff. One day, I
realized that there is nothing to search for or to find. Just breathing
in and out and to laugh about the ridiculousness of life is enough. All
these years, I was looking for change, but the only thing I did was to
escape from myself by not wanting to feel the helplessness of each
single moment.

It was my own greed that wanted me to be different. Without the
advertisers who made me believe in a goal and in this way gave me a
goal, I would have never started the search. It was kind of tricky – but
it worked.

Each day, when I wake up views change. I do not do anything about them,
they just change all by themselves. Now, I am married. I am teaching
children to earn money and I live in Southern Germany. After such a long
time, I am starting to live the adventure of life. I am learning not to
run away from what life is giving me or to reject it, since I know that
it was all created by my words, thoughts, actions and feelings. It is my
responsibility.