Living life to the best of our ability

One goal of this blog is to examine how best to live our lives. What is the best possible way to conduct ourselves so that we are really alive and live life to the best of our ability? Note that this is a different question than what to do in our lives. What to do is a personal decision and different people can choose to do different things in life and set different goals according to their liking and preferences. Of course, some people might change the what once they understand the how because their priorities and goals might change.

So far, in the previous posts, we have been just examining the basics of how we normally live our lives without being fully alive, how life passes by while we are busy with 'other' things, how our mind is constantly chattering and how thoughts consume our existence.

In future posts we will examine the nature of mind and thoughts and how they influence our day to day existence, how besides diverting our attention and not allowing us to be aware and alive, they also influence our actions, reactions and future train of thought.

The short answer obviously is that we should live our lives fully, we should be alive, we should be aware, we should be attentive and mindful of what is happening around us - and we should do this at each and every moment of our life. Note that it does not mean that this will lead to riches, success and fame. You can have those without living your life with awareness - that is the reason why people who have those may still be unsatisfied. Regardless of whether you have riches, fame and success, you will have lived your life fully if you live with awareness.

Besides allowing you you to experience every moment fully, awareness allows you to take the best action at each moment. It allows you to make conscious decisions based on the current situation - it allows you to act and not just react all the time. Once again, this does not mean that you will never make mistakes. It is human to make mistakes and you will probably not be aware all the time. As long as we try our best to live with awareness, we will be really alive and live life to its fullest.

We might glimpse the truth in what is being said above but how do we really understand this deeply? How do we internalize this and put it in practice? We will keep exploring.