Is There Anything Else You'd Like to Tell Me

Billy asked himself, ''is there anything that holds my mental and physical scars that is unscarred?''

Wherever you go, there you are, he once read. Billy couldn't run away from his problems anymore than he could run away from himself. Consciousness is a prior condition that gets papered over by identification with thoughts, we are always here whether or not we know it. Billy often failed to take notice or take responsibility for his own health or well being. He got so absorbed with negative thoughts, instead of being here now, noticing the present moment with its challenges, instead of using them to transform himself. He thought if he was somewhere else or on vacation thoughts would go away too. Unlikely he told himself. If he can sit, be with himself simply, quietly, he thought perhaps he could heal, this moment, wherever or whatever the situation, certainly not running away. 

So perhaps the answer to all the above is meditation, attentive to the moment of my ordinary life, he told himself.  

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