Belly, Not Eyes
Beware and Be Aware with Your Eyes
Beware with what you see and be aware with what you are seeing consciously or unconsciously. Eyes are the window of your mind, body and soul, so we need to be peaceful and calm with what our eyes sees and perceives.
Yes, that what our eyes are for, to see everything but it does not mean we have to react to every little things our eyes see. The visions of our eyes see, influences our mind and touches our ego; it deceives. Through the visual beauty or unpleasing things our eyes see, our body begins to respond. But sometimes,
The more we see everything through our eyes, the more we let our mind and ego controls us. Slowly we begin to close our heart and become more judgemental, praising everything based on lusts; a desire, illusion that give us a sense of excitement that will heighten our pride.
As we begin to fill our world with pleasures in life with power and greed, we are pushing ourself further from our trueself. The more we are far from the root, the more we feel superior and arrogant, deceiving others with power and wrong-doings. Our mind, body and soul is no longer aligned with nature; we become a slave of life; amoral. We wouldn’t be able to find peace, freedom or even feel gratitude for ourself.
In the end, it is our freewill to choose to see everything from the eyes of ego or the eyes of love. It is also nature’s freewill to choose themselves on how they want us to evolve in life; whether we take our experiences in life as blessings or curses.
Magister Liu, Liu Yi Ming, said “ It is the Eyes that cause greatest Harm. When eyes see, then Ears, Mouth, Heart-and-Mind, Limbs are all affected by that stimulus. But if the eyes are denied sight, then five colours can’t enter. The Taoist Nourishes “Breath-Energy” in the Dark of the Belly, Sees the Inner Marvel within the outer radiance”
Belly, Not Eyes (Tao Te Ching)
The five colours blind the eyes.
The five sounds deafen the ears.
The five tastes deaden the palate.
The hunt for Game,
The heat of the chase,
cause heart and mind to run riot.
Goods that are hard to come by become an Impediment.
The taoist lives through Inner Nourishment of the belly,
Not through the eyes,
Eschews the latter,
Chooses the Former
Belly Not The eyes is simply means your own trueself, the inner power within you, those true power that we were born with ; unconditional love, compassion, freedom and peace. The power of being enough and secure; the power of being attached and detached; the will of letting go, and the state of being in harmony.
“The hunt for game, The heat of the chase cause heart and mind to run riot” is about our desires and those actions we take to chase that; how far are we willing to scarifies our true-self for that momentary pleasure although our heart understand those much scarifies are not necessaries to make. In the end, we are not against anything or anyone in life, we are our own worst enemy and best friend.
