What is the use of running when we are on the wrong path? (Gandhi)

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Gandhi says, ask yourself what you're doing and why? And then could you get sometimes surprising answers. Why surprising? Because the issues of the day are still powerful, even in these times where people are educated, hear the world news and seem to have a choice.
But this is not often the case, having a choice.

Much of what modern man does is more defined by the ads, by the compulsion to enjoy a lot and the feeling that is forced upon everyone that your present life really is not satisfactory, actually is boring. The suggestion is supreme, that life really is not as dynamic without bungie jumping, without an exotic trip or without the latest smartphone.

And by wondering why you do the things you do, an honest answer is: because it has to, because everyone is doing it, because you would lack otherwise.

And if you wonder quietly why you do the things you do, why you are running, why you're in such a hurry, it turns out to be because you are expecting a big job, a nice car, a long journey to make you happy.

Because getting the object of your desire will make you happy.
And it is not true, simply not true.

Oh world of longing, with its ever-receding horizon.

Oh world of longing, which causes you can only be happy when you pursue the desire, you can only be happy if you can finally satisfy the desire.
And that is certainly a big moment.
But shortly after a new desire is starting to come up.

Why? Because the habit of chasing desires is bigger than the habit not to.

Because the ego has started to believe (a new religion!) that the pursuit of desires gives happiness. But it does not give happiness only temporary relief. And the relief has become manifest only because one is one moment in the here and one has one moment no desire anymore, for one moment just being is the case. Because for a short moment there is nothing to do. Because for a short moment one can relax.

But then it starts all over again.

And that is why Gandhi says: stop running on a path that does not comply.
And I say, take another path, that of peace, of silence, of the here and now, of the inner self,  that of God. Because that's where desires have come to rest, that’s were one has stopped the pursuit of desire. That’s where one can discover and experience, that happiness is more dependent from letting go than from grabbing, more from being than from having, more from inner peace than from outer experiences.
Gandhi is blessed.

My blessings to you all

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