A car like life
Each car has four tiers that can’t move anywhere without it. So as life has four main aspects that we can’t move without. Health, Knowledge, Relationships, and Security are the four tiers of life, if you have a problem in any one of them you will start driving slowly, if you don’t fix it you’ll come to a full stop. The reason those are the four tiers of your life is those need a constant gagging. You have to check each and everyone and you have to add to them constantly. If any of them get inflated by an object on the road then this will require your full attention.
A spare tire is a must in your life as well as the skill to change it until you drive to a maintenance shop. The spare is patience that you will need to replace your flat tire with until you fix the problem. The skill that will help you to replace the tire and driving on patience is meditation. meditation is a skill that comes with practice like any other skill and not only will help you with replacing the tire, but will help you down the road with paying attention, enjoying the journey, and keeping the engine heat down so you don’t blow up your life.
The engine of your life is what motivates you to do anything which is your Desires, and Love is the fuel of your life. True, there are biological reasons that motivate us like thirst and hunger, but we also love food and water as we love everything that we want. We should be careful of the grade of this fuel that we pour in our lives, because a low grade of Love (fake one) can destroy our lives. The best Love however, is not that expensive if we learn how to conserve and where to fuel from. Here is where the skill that we learned comes handy, because the grade of love can always be checked by meditation.
The one rule of nature is “survival of the fittest”. The fittest is not necessarily the fastest, the smartest, bravest, or strongest. The fittest is the most adaptable to change. Adaptation is the gear of this car like life that helps you change from one speed to another without breaking down. Luckily adaptation is all automatic in our nature, but manual adaptation can be helpful in difficult situations when you need to adapt quickly in order to survive. it works hand in hand with your desires (the engine) so you can keep your motor running. Both the gear and engine need oil to run smoothly.
The oil that keeps everything running smoothly is prevention. Controlled prevention is what keeps your desires (engine) and adaptation (gear) going smoothly without suffering or breaking down. It provides acceptance to the losses that you might face on the road so better train yourself and accept them rather than it take you in a surprise. Plus prevention that you control is much better than prevention forced upon you by an outside force, like occupation, pandemic, or uncontrolled bad habits. Just like any oil, prevention has to be renewed every once in a while so you keep your edges sharp.
ABZU 