Living vs. continuing existence

I found a new park yesterday on the coast, it is very close of my apartment but I never noticed it before, I like that park very much you can ear the chants of many sort of birds, it is like being in a forest, I also noticed snails , snails are creature I haven’t seen since childhood.
When I was there yesterday there was also a little girl with her parent, the little girl was fascinated with the park she wanted to come in explore and play. But her father was shouting “It is only a park, let continue”. I looked at him and he looked at me like I was wasting my time in there.

The little girl didn’t listen to his father, she ran into the park and she took something there from the trees.
It is very interesting to look at your world with different eyes everyday because it is not the same. I found that park and then when I left I went to another park that I knew the feeling you get in there are different than in the first park, this is one has a lot more grass, the chants of the birds are different.

Now, I went to those two parks today and the experience was different everything is so different on the coast you can see some mountains on the horizon over the sea, what I didn’t know is that there is a small town on one of those mountains, I noticed this only last week, when no clouds were present over the sea, the mountains were so clear and beautiful I noticed that town, I also saw it at night when the light are on in that town.
I also notice new things everyday, I do not know a day similar to another. Routine, I have no idea what it is anymore. Back when I was living in Belgium I liked to read architecture magazines to look at the design houses, a few weeks ago, I found out that we have many such houses here, I just didn’t notice them before, they are great it is nice to see them.

They are so many things to see and experience. I believe that this one of the major difference between LIVING and continuing existence.

The more a person know about the world the more that individual feels safe in it and love it. People constantly ask me if I know this or that teacher may be yes, may be not, It doesn’t matter, I can’t learn much from so-called “spiritual teacher”, two great learning tools for me are ‘observation’ and ‘creating new experiences’.
People talk about enlightenment, you will not get “illuminated” if you keep repeating the same thing over and over again.
Try new foods, walk on streets you don’t go, watch and read things you usually don’t. You will see it will open your mind. There is not much interest in simply continuing existence, the people continuing existence are the ones that live the dreams of others.

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