Once is Enough, Once is Forever (Day 325)

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Rev. Bee will tell y’all that one of the many Rev. Badger soundbytes is: enough is as good as a feast. I use it all the time, really. It reminds me, and others, of the need for a moment to appreciate what we have in that moment without instantly wanting for more. It’s easy for our minds, once they experience moments of pleasure, victory, happiness, or love, to attach to those feelings (or material things). Our undisciplined minds will naturally want another amuse bouche, for example, as if we won't be able to remember what it was like unless we have more and more and more. What we’re doing, essentially, is trying to control the length, frequency, and duration of that singular experience… in other words, we’re trying to control something that’s not within our control. Lust and desire, the offspring of ego, cause us to want more and more and more of those good things. Ego’s machinations cause us to try and control that which isn’t in our control… however, there is something (or someone) we CAN control. 

Ourselves. 

Moderation tempers our ego and trains it, over time, to practice acceptance and not attachment. Practicing being fully in the present moment disciplines our ego to not get lost in the past with longing and sadness, and to not get lost in the future of desire and egoic-hunger.

Accept the moment. Revel in it…

… because even if it never comes again, you can’t take away that you had the experience. 

And that moment, good readers, is enough. 

As are we all. 

(See y’all tomorrow)