Live the Essenz

One of the great puzzles in life is the belief that the secret to life and the truth about our existence is a complex riddle, an intellectual workout for the brain akin to solving a dizzying mathematical formula.

The truth is - life is simple. So simple that it’s easy to doubt its authenticity.

Read those words again - life is simple.

Why then are our current lifestyles so complicated? And how is it possible to return to a simple life?

This is the aim of this course. To walk the path back to a simple life.

I’m not talking about living in a hut deep in the woods with no running water, electricity or toilet. Well, it could be - if that’s what you want. But living a simple life starts first in your mind. Actually, everything starts here.

What the Essenz does is put us in touch with our inherent deepest nature. Something that we rarely encounter in the superficial busyness of ‘life’.

Coming face to face with our inherent nature and being, can be a pretty confronting thing. Mostly because we’re reminded of how unsimple our lives have become, and how far away we are from being and expressing our inherent nature.

But don’t despair. This first step of confrontation is the all important one. It pays to stand face to face with ourselves and really let the shock sink in. It helps with initiating the next two steps - acceptance and action.

Our deepest nature is an integration and harmony of who we are - body, mind and soul. Basically this means smooth running. Yet it is also so much more.

The notion of a smooth running life tends to go against everything we have been taught and experience on a daily basis. We have been led to believe that life is about toil, effort and battling our way through.

But what are we really battling and toiling against? The harsh reality of life? Or the way we have been taught to use our mind?

To know the answer, let’s have a look at what smooth running means. To have smooth running, our lives have to be pretty loose, relaxed, calm and free. For most people out there, these qualities belong to some mythical Utopia that exists on top of a mountain far from the realities of normal life.

But they are qualities instantly accessible the moment we step aside from the illusion created by our mind. The illusion of difficulty, toil, hardship, battles and so on. In other words, the concept of dualism.

We are engineered from birth to believe in a dualistic world. This is done by developing an ego, and an individual will, mind and self identity. Every institution in life is geared towards reinforcing these constructs.

Yes, you guessed it - neither our individuality nor our ego, mind, will or self identity truly exist.

Now you may be thinking, then what on earth is there? What am I? Panic may set in. Don’t worry, that’s a pretty normal response from our ego. It doesn’t like to be threatened, but it will need to be brought under control. While we cannot eliminate our ego in this world, we can definitely learn to make it work for us and not against.

The emotional and mental aches, pains, turmoil and chaos each of us endures can all be traced back to dualism or ego dominance.

So, if you starting to feel a bit peeved by how your ego has free reign to run amok in your life, then let’s get to work on it.

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