The whole process is designed to make you detached. I was in USA had everything around me including alcohol, best LED TV, comfortable hotel, but i had no interest in anything, because inside i was burning with an issue which is i was away from my family. But then everything came my way. New experiences which i had never expected, easy comfortable life.
The people who make you forcefully step outside of your comfort zone are the ones which make you detached / or make you aware of your attachments. Thanks to my wife -- she has played a great role in this. She made me aware of many of my attachments. Sleep, money and parents being some of those.
Showing posts with label tough experiences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tough experiences. Show all posts
Monday, March 24, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Approaching death of the ego
Sometimes god gives our ego a new low. He redefines how much the ego should bend to humility. such an experience lightens the heart but leaves a memory and a mark.
I observe the same fear in people all around the world -- job related insecurity, old age and being single, divorced people who feel people with family are blessed, lonely people who resort to mindfulness and meditation. Happening all over the world. I attended a sangha meditation centre in Milwaukee and saw that a pediatrician was there, an old lawyer was there, a man who was about to get divorced was there, old women who are about to die were there, relative middle aged people who have gone through much sufferings were there.
Sometimes we don't understand why people dislike us -- but go deep inside them and it becomes clear the sufferings that they are going through and what it is which is making them hate us. when someone does something to you which you are not able to understand, it means there is something about you which you don't understand yourself. Why? because the same energy flows in them which is flowing in you. Everyone is behaving out of conditioning and therefore nobody is guilty. Yet nobody is innocent because they have a choice on how to use their energies. Wow -- such an awesome creation of God. He creates the world of opposites and gives a choice to souls.
Looking again at the back of the mind, there is nothing else other than the present moment all the time. memories is what makes the mind interfere. As UG Krishnamurthy says there is no way you can experience anything at all without the knowledge of it. The vicious cycle is such that Knowledge "enables" experiencer to experience and the experiences fortifies the knowledge. In the present moment there is no memory, no knowledge, no experience -- just beingness. Yet there is no word to describe the state. Buddha calls it emptyiness, Jesus called it the fullness of life. Yet they all describe the same thing.
I observe the same fear in people all around the world -- job related insecurity, old age and being single, divorced people who feel people with family are blessed, lonely people who resort to mindfulness and meditation. Happening all over the world. I attended a sangha meditation centre in Milwaukee and saw that a pediatrician was there, an old lawyer was there, a man who was about to get divorced was there, old women who are about to die were there, relative middle aged people who have gone through much sufferings were there.
Sometimes we don't understand why people dislike us -- but go deep inside them and it becomes clear the sufferings that they are going through and what it is which is making them hate us. when someone does something to you which you are not able to understand, it means there is something about you which you don't understand yourself. Why? because the same energy flows in them which is flowing in you. Everyone is behaving out of conditioning and therefore nobody is guilty. Yet nobody is innocent because they have a choice on how to use their energies. Wow -- such an awesome creation of God. He creates the world of opposites and gives a choice to souls.
Looking again at the back of the mind, there is nothing else other than the present moment all the time. memories is what makes the mind interfere. As UG Krishnamurthy says there is no way you can experience anything at all without the knowledge of it. The vicious cycle is such that Knowledge "enables" experiencer to experience and the experiences fortifies the knowledge. In the present moment there is no memory, no knowledge, no experience -- just beingness. Yet there is no word to describe the state. Buddha calls it emptyiness, Jesus called it the fullness of life. Yet they all describe the same thing.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Surrender
Anyatha Saranam Naasthi Tvameva Saranam Mama
Tasmat Karunya Bhavena Raksha Raksho Ganeshwara
Tasmat Karunya Bhavena Raksha Raksho Ganeshwara
I have no refuge but oh Lord. I surrender to you. With mercy and kindness please protect us from the problems
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Tough Experiences this week
Went through lot of tough experiences this week. Many things which I was not aware of myself came into light.
- My Extreme attachment to become rich.
- How anger can lead to insanity in every man, root cause of anger being fear.
- Humility is a strength far greater than any sort of power or ego.
- When you do things by thinking which is against what you know you should be doing, sooner or later there will be consequences
- If you are struggling and reacting over something the root cause of the problem, the sore spot is inside you.
- Both the God and the Satan are inside us, we choose what we want to become or how we want to behave.
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