Adversity and the Moment

It is interesting, how that catastrophic adversity brings people together. People who would not ordinarily talk to each other, establish an immediate friendship. Individuals care for each other, and give of themselves freely without condition. Of course there a still those who seek advantage in a situation that may represent monetary gain. But by enlarge people are accepting and forgiving.

One is not concerned about the past or the future, but only present need. They are in the moment and put away there differences. They may actually see the stupidity of there opinions and prejudiced. Adversity with all its destruction can actually give one a sense of joy and happiness. It is the release of conflict, of staid resistance. The realization of the simplicity of just living life.


Adversity in one's personal life can be an awakening. One can come face to face with what one actually is. Adversity can be a catalyst to understanding the illusion and futility of the accumulation of the material and psychological. But for it to represent a true transformation one must stay with the moment and have a deep understanding of the nature of self. Otherwise one will fall back into the conditioning of the past. Most will experience a subtle change in life. A change that makes one a little more tolerant, but by enlarge one will simply replace one type of conditioning with another which may seem a little less divisive.


Adversity can set one free. If one can realize the intelligence of maintaining that freedom in the moment, then one's life can be transformed. One can move away from the prison of attachment and identification. When one is transformed one lives in the truth of the moment, which is the outcome of freedom. This freedom is not freedom from something, which is the mind that is seeking a result. It is freedom that is not an acquisition, but a negation of the image of that which makes up the illusion of individuality. As long as there is consciousness of individuality there is the promotion of self interest and the desire to manipulate. Individuality is the movement of one's conditioned consciousness, from past through present to future. It is the illusion of the existence of time through the psychological and made manifest in the materiality of the me and the not me. The non-dual is the uncondititoned, that which is when all else is not.