All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -- The Buddha
I reread The Buddha's truth this morning and recalled my recent thoughts on dementia...how it seems to be rampant today...why? Why now? Is the chaotic state of the world the source?
We, the people of the world, have all gotten more afraid...maybe since WWII and The Bomb. We have sought outside sources to protect ourselves, seldom looking within and rarely believing when we do. We've looked outside, seeking ways to defeat our fear rather than ways to surrender to love.
Unknowing, our minds have lived under strain...always looking outside for a fix, a cure. The medical field and Big Pharma have produced meds, drugs, or any panacea to sell to us to relieve the anxiety, alleviate the fear.
We gobbled up the promises, usually seeking bigger, more powerful drugs to stem the fear...many of the drugs with side effects that led to worse ails and ills. Until, with or without drugs, the strain has brought us to the "incurable" diagnosis...dementia.
I believe in an ancient but ever-new way to treat this incurable disease. Note, to treat not cure. Go within. Seek the Father, the Power greater than our self that lives within us. Lives there, always ready to do for us what we cannot do for our self.
The Power is Love, the handmaiden of nonresistance. Resist not fear. Resist not incurable disease. Resist not evil.
Nonresistance will not take away the incurable disease...it will take away the fear of it. Love takes away the fear, we live peaceably with the incurable. We worrit not for now the incurable is God's opportunity to shine...and shine he can, will and does.
Thank you.
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