Recent learnings : Eating, Knowledge

The eating quantity should fit within thev two palms. That'll be just enough for the stomach.

You cannot experience anything without knowledge. Mind is only interested in one thing : self perpetuation. It creates the demand for thoughts and invents various concepts. Most of those Concepts​ are projection of knowledge. Knowledge creates experience, experience fortifies knowledge. Thus resulting in the endless cycle of Maya.

The body somehow knows that it is not going to die. But that is not so for the mind and so it keeps inventing concepts like reincarnation. (According to UG)

His question: if you can not experience life how can you even experience death. Can I experience anything without knowledge ?

The demand for continuity comes from the mind. Mind is an instrument. Once it strikes you that this instrument is not going to help in getting any closer to your Self and there is no other instrument. The entire process of searching stops.

Illusion

The whole world (including me) is in an illusion. The illusion of working to live a livelihood. What is this livelihood that we are seeking - the ability to educate our kids so that they are prepared for the same illusion of setting their livelihood once they grow up, Earning money, making enough money to live a comfortable life, parties, trips over weekends and holidays, the sense of achievement when you make a business problem go away, gaining marketshare at the loss of someone's loss of marketshare, competition.

All I see during weekend and long holidays is this - married friends going out for drives to neighboring towns, villages just to while away the time as there is nothing else to do - sometimes in the excuse that wives are bored with the same work daily.

Coaching Wife

I'm trying to coach wife on how to look at the mind as your roommate rather than identifying herself with it.

She has been through lot of experience and is now ready to turn inward and look for the root cause inside. There is nothing wrong outside

Asked her to start with Vasana Daha Tantra and read the book - the untethered soul.

Visiting the temple once a week also helps in this process which I made it happen for her.

Watch

everyday i watch it, it watches itself. It has nice thoughts, it has bad thoughts. It is the saint, it is the sinner. It is fame and success, it is humiliation and loss. It is stability. It is change. It is creating new relationships and discarding old. Craving for old, discarding new. It is what it is. A self created principle. The great illusion which you dare to think of as real.

It is ambition and willpower, it is peace and being. It is addiction and instinctive. What gives it that power if it were unreal? It is the one which seeks answers for questions. I am Not that. I am ....

Flying in an aeroplane

I was flying in air plane to a different city yesterday. Viewing the city from top from a few thousand feet, I got the mountain view perspective.

Each illuminated light below on earth represented a house or family. There were thousands and thousands of such lights. Some were stationary lights of houses and some were moving vehicles.

But the common thing was, each of those lights represented souls who are in pursuit. Some lights belong to corporations some belong to individual houses and people. Nevertheless all of them were in pursuit. Pursuit of more money, profits, better lifestyle, dealing with their own problems emotional, financial or intellectual. Trying to enjoy life meanwhile with various distractions like movies, drinks etc. Each one had their own attachments, and none of them were satisfied with whatever they had in the present moment.  They were all moving. Always on the move.

That's when I was aware that I too was one of those lights. Doing my own thing. Having my own attachments. I was one such light caught in my own pursuits.

I have decided to live a life free from all these things that make us human and earthlings. Every attachment is a pursuit.

No end

There is no end to the ramifications posed by the mind.  The Romans built the colosseum for entertaining themselves with wild animals & gladiators. Entertainment hasn't changed much. Now there is boxing, Wwe, dance shows, movies, singing competition etc. There are breakthroughs at work followed by failures in some other parts of the software putting you back in square one.

The mind gets elated and depressed and that's it's nature.  Nothing stays constant ever.

The is fear in management at the highest levels, blame game, followed by moments of relief. Thus the wheel of time and karma continue.

Bad experiences come stay and go. Good experiences come stay and go.  We try to only stay with the happy experiences often. Everyone wants only happiness. Yet it's just a pursuit. Lack of contentment kicks in sooner or later and the sense of unfulfilled feeling continues.

Despite being in this illusion we refuse to wake up. There comes a time in a man's life when he has to put an end to it all. When one has enough experiences that the mind will turn into itself and be aware of itself. That It realises that the root cause of all problems is within not outside. I'm going through this phase of life right now