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Wasting Life is Impossible

Thanks to

and everyone's contributions in yesterday's weekly session, I felt free from one of my core assumptions about life: 'This life is the only life I have, and I mustn't waste it.'

I've had this one since childhood. I realise how some of my core suffering has stemmed from it. I've pressed myself to do something great, to sacrifice my life for a greater cause, etc. I realise I still can carry on with the work I consider meaningful, but simply because I find it joyful, and that's it.

And it dawned on me: Life Can't Be Wasted. Wasting life is impossible! What I thought of as Life before is a great Something that is ever-continuing, ever-flowing. It is Real and ever-present and a mystery that sustains itself irrespective of what I happen to assume about it.

Great session yesterday! Thanks, everyone.

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