Attending to Attar, Day 11
You feel that you have it all. So why journey? There is no one as happy as you. Life has given you pleasure. Pain and sorrow are rare and easily overcome. What more could you want than to have things as they are. After all, you have what you want. What use would it be to give up this world when it suits your needs so well. You choose not to leave the comforts of home to journey elsewhere. You think the journey inward offers nothing that you do not have now.
However, your world is an illusion. It exists without reality. It is a puddle that will dry when fire encircles it. What you worship in the world is not stable. Your existence is transitory. It all comes and goes in cycles of time. You have been lulled into sleeping. Your dream can become a nightmare. Awaken to your true reality. You are the ocean, not the puddle. Your frivolous attachments to the me of the body and its needs are fantasies of happiness. Joy is your true nature. Release yourself from the puddle. Seek the ocean of consciousness within. That is the way of the path.
