All this (and more) would create the
perfect life. And living the perfectly
delicious life of no suffering, you’d be
the perfect you!!!
Really?
Remember, the King tried this with
young Siddhartha who lived in ultimate
luxury in a pleasure palace with the
most beautiful woman and servants
attending to every want, need and
desire. Didn’t work. He split and
became Buddha.
Creating your reality the way you want
it has obvious appeal for pretty much
everyone. With such omnipotent power
you could control your world and thus
be free from all the nasty surprises that
turn a good day into hell.
But does it really work that way?
My hypothesis is: it does not. Look at
the people who have achieved
everything. Many seem miserable,
often to the point of suicide.
Personally, I can attest to the fact that
scaling the mountain of money and
success is good and all, but at the top,
I’m still me. I still get pissed when
someone cuts me off in traffic. I still get
sad when someone trashes my wife on
Facebook. And furious when I see the
lying, cheating, greed, and stealing that
runs our world.
The statement: If I could create life
according to my wishes, I would not
suffer is simply not true. You will
probably suffer less. But suffering will
still find you. And you’ll have to deal
with it.
28 www.yogicherald.com Oct./Nov. 2019
About Author
William Arntz is a
physicist, software
entrepreneur,
filmmaker and
author. He wrote
simulators for the
early Star Wars
program, created
software that the
Fortune 500 world
runs on, created the
What the BLEEP
Do We Know!?
movie and books
and co-created the
book of visionary
prophesies –The
(not so) Little Book
of Surprises - with
Deirdre Hade .