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I sure wish I knew what the next world would be like. I’ve heard all kinds of things! My friend Charley says that we are nothing! Imagine that! He says that we are only accidents of nature, and we simply fall into a dreamless sleep—for eternity! I can’t even imagine eternity! My other friend says that we will always remain who we are, but in a heavenly realm. That sounds nice!My uncles insists that because of our Wanting Bugs, we will come back to earth many times to live life over and get it right! Wow. With all of these different ideas, and without believing something just because my friends or my mom tells me to, how will I ever know for sure which one of these are true? Boy, is this ever a problem! Will I have to go to heaven first to find out?But . . . what if what I do here means where I end up? I guess I better count on my Wanting Bugs, because that’s all I am, it seems. Maybe I should hold them off by following some kind of rules or commandments or something. Maybe that will help. But . . . if I follow rules, will I really change? I don’t think so! I mean, what part of me changes? I don’t even know. Sometimes I want to pretend that I have changed into a really cool person, but shoot, I’m a lousy play actor. I can only do it for a little while before the real me shows up!Sometimes I dream of a secret key that opens a treasure chest of light, a magical light that frees me from not only my Wanting Bugs, but from all the things, I want to hide from. What can this magical key be? Where could I find it? I’ll bet my Wanting Bugs hide it very cleverly; they are so smart! Maybe my key is hidden just below the stuff I use to get by every day, maybe it’s like falling in love, maybe it will just appear out of nowhere one day. Then I couldn’t rush finding my key to my treasure chest of light, my treasure beyond my pesky Wanting Bugs.Maybe my key will arrive as an unexpected flash, hitting me between the eyes so that I could never mistake it as a clever Wanting Bug. But my Wanting Bugs buzz around in my head all the time, never giving me any peace at all!Wait a minute! Maybe this is the secret to finding my magic key! . . .Hmmm. If I could only stop the buzzing. . . . Hmmm. How could I do that?
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E. Raymond Rock of Fort Myers, Florida is cofounder and principal teacher at the Southwest Florida Insight Center (www.southwestfloridainsightcenter.com/). His twenty-eight years of meditation experience has taken him across four continents, including two stopovers in Thailand where he practiced in the remote northeast forests as an ordained Theravada Buddhist monk. His book, A Year to Enlightenment (Career Press/New Page Books) is now available at major bookstores and online retailers
Copyright © E. Raymond Rock 2007. All rights reserved
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