Consistency, is it so?

What is really consistent? Is it a pain that's consistent? Is it sadness that's consistent? Is it worry that's consistent? Is there anything that is in focus 100% of the time? For example, you have some pain in your body, and, of course, you simply don't like it. But the question is, does the focus on the pain go in and out, or is it completely consistent? Do you feel the pain without any gaps of not feeling it, or do you feel it and then your attention goes off of it and then comes back on it? Another example is when you are watching television. Is the watching completely consistent, or does it go in and out? An even further example is about how thoughts always come in and then go. Has there ever been a thought that just comes into your head and just remains there?

Nothing remains the same: feelings in the body change, emotions change, thoughts change, sights, sounds, relationships, age, and so on.They all change. If everything changes, what are you but something that is constantly changing. Your sense of self is mostly based on thoughts and emotions that have a permanent sort of feeling to them. You feel like someone consistent with a past, present and future. But the truth is, as a matter of fact, all of those thoughts and emotions about yourself are all changing all the time, without any exceptions. 

Is consistency true? Check it out for yourself by watching and seeing if things are always changing, or if at some point things cease to change.

Brian Eric Cohen

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