The lifestream doesn’t provide a home for ideas of what should and shouldn’t be. Those exist as mental fabrications, but immediate aliveness doesn’t manifest through the concept of should or shouldn’t.
It doesn’t prefer birth over death, growth over decline, or health over disease. Aliveness isn’t an exclusive appearance of heavenly happiness, it encompasses devouring sadness and grief as well.
There are no turning points, coordinates, or edges where one turns into the other. It’s a seamless flow in which all is lost to transience.
This lostness can urge to create an imaginary ground to stand on, rules and laws to rely on, the need for control, understanding, and certainty. Dividing life into what should and shouldn’t be creates belief systems, mindscapes and practices about how this could be achieved or avoided.
And while this might be what it seems for a while or not, life still will break you up, and all of it. The islands of apparent understanding and knowing won’t save you from drowning into oblivion and eventual annihilation.
Despair can create stories that are supposed to comfort, beliefs that carry through the gaping abyss of the unknown, of impermanence, that pretend to offer knowledge and cause, an apparent answer to all the why, me and not.
According to commonly shared beliefs about “right” and “wrong,” “good” and “evil,” a lot of this life should not be as it is. It should be different; it should be better. “Should” and “shouldn’t” lead to a war against what is.
If there’s an emergence of war, this is it.
Living the dream or living in a nightmare – aliveness pulsates through the entire dreamscape and the dreamer who is dreamt.
Awakening should be an escape from this, into liberation.
Shouldn’t it?
