Floating requires a balance...
Posted on Aug 13th, 2007
by 
*Benjamin
*Benjamin
Hello whover is out there and stumbles upon this...Today's blog is all about letting go on the inside and at the same time playing the game on the outside in this world. First, one has to realize that it is just a game, and in that realization, one is free. When you let go of all of those ambitions and dreams that you thought would somehow fulfill you, you realize that you already are that which you had been after. It is funny how it works...your ego just bows down and out...Only egoists can take life seriously...Once you discover that it is a game, you become playful about everything...Everything becomes a game..."Work" becomes a game - everything...But you still have to appear in this world and abide by some of these societal rules and norms that have been laid out...You have to know how to blend and still be free...Don't invest in this world, don't be attached, just grow in awareness and Love and it will spill out into this world...It can be hard to do at first, and your ego will say "No, look at what you can accomplish if you just do it this way and you are aggressive and go after what it is that you desire..." It is not that you cannot have goals and you cannot go after things, it is just that once you are aware that whatever you "achieve" won't fulfill you as a being, you will not be so serious. You will see the ridiculousness of desire, of the wheel that we all have been treading on for lifetime after lifetime after lifetime. Once you are aware of this, of how desire works, once it really hits, you will move in a different way....You will be blissful wherever you go because you have stepped out of this desiring nonsense...With no desire you will float in life, and only in this floating, in this melting into life is there freedom. It requires a deep let-go on the inside. Your ego will not like this at all, but your ego is the barrier to freedom...Your ego holds you in chains...Stupid ego...So you just have to be aware that no desire can be fulfilled, and then you let go and float...and everything becomes a play. This doesn't mean that you won't "accomplish" anything, it just means that you are now no longer concerned with accomplishments or goals. You are just playing, just a part of the play...That is all this world is...I know if I ever had a daughter, I would name her Leela, which means "play". I don't think that will ever happen, but you never know....Okay, that is enough, now go have fun and play....
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July 2008 
Dear Benjamin,
Yes, it is good to play, and to have a healthy detachment. YES, YES, YES!!! People take their silly little meaningless lives WAY too serious, it's true. And fun is good. I like to poke fun at things people take too seriously. EVEN death. Check this funny video of me making fun of a pretend friend's death. (Yea, I'm old – can't be helped. Time did that to me!)
http://loveishere.gaia.com/blog/2007/12/celebrating_death
But then there IS a right KIND of seriousness, and a place for it. For example, in a previous blog, you said how the world is in bad shape, and if it's going to get better, we are all going to have to really DO things for it. Now THAT, I believe was a very serious statement, and a serious call to action. And, it takes not JUST a playful attitude, but also, as you know, a HUGE, SERIOUS commitment.
And there is another way in which life is NOT a game. Its NOT a game, because if every heart stays heartbroken, and if the whole world goes on as it is, and dies, that's REAL heartbreak, and REAL death. And so there is nothing fun or funny about that. It's like how fun and funny is it when a person dies an agonizing death of bone cancer, or a child starves to death who caught aids from its mom during pregancy? And every single physcial body is bound to die. It is very serious.
So I believe that YES, we should not be serious about the kind of silly things the WORLD gets all too serious about. BUT, we should be much MORE serious about the things that the world doesn't take seriously when it should. Like the huge destruction and heartache of humanity, for example. People ignore that, when they had better be very serious (in a GOOD and SINCERE way, not a negative way) about it. Otherwise, this might be a game, all right, but its the kind of game where you can really end up genuinely DEAD. So I made fun of it in my video, but I know what's SERIOUS about it, too.
So Ben, it's true that people NEED to lighten up in many ways. BUT, I wouldn't encourage people TOO MUCH in the fun direction. Cause at the same time, most people are already so casual, they are ignoring almost everything important, and watching TV, or playing games on the internet, when they should be more serious about REAL LIFE! ANd not be like the little big with the straw house, who skipped around playing his flute, and ignoring his need for good strong shelter. And then the wolf came.
So we're playing this game for a lot of marble – for all the marbles, as they say. And that ame this a game that's worth taking serious. It's a very serious game on that reality level.
IMHO. – am
PS: Watch out for TM – it's a damned addiction. I know, because I was a TMer for many years! Self serving yoga of any kind is NOT the way. Love is best. IMHO.
Aloha Benjamin-
I thought your post was quite brilliant and expressed an attitude that I recognize brewing in my own life. And I agree with Amadon's comments that some things must be taken seriously because there is nothing less than our collective soul on the line at this point in the game.
Thus the balance becomes the key, between coming across as a harbringer of doom while simultaneously letting go of the horror to embrace the wonderment of it all. I wish us all luck in the endeavor!
Aloha-
Lela (with just one 'e'…)
Amadon,I think you and I are operating on the same wave length, as they say. (although I am not sure who they are.) People seem to be serious about things that, in the larger picture are very irrelevant. If people could step back and look and how they have been so serious, they might laugh, loosen up, and then start asking what really is important in life. What matters? LOVE!!! I have come to this conclusion based on personal experience with LOVE: If you have at all felt LOVE, and I mean the explosion in your heart that happens, then death no longer concerns you because you have truly touched LIFE at the deepest level in all its glory, and deep down you know that there really is no death. The tragedy of life on this planet is not that we die, or leave the body, but that most never truly live because they never truly LOVE…On another note: I know what you mean about TM and yoga. TM may be able to give you awareness of that which is deathless, the eternal self, but without LOVE, what is eternity. It is just like several experiences that I have had detaching from my body. While it is exhilarating to know that we are all eternal, there was no great fulfillment, only relief. My best experiences in life have been falling asleep next to someone that I truly LOVE, feeding orphans, and hugging people. Would you want eternity without LOVE? No!! Who would? As I have heard and now know it to be true, “Love is food for the soul.” Without Love, you live but you are not alive.