Unfinished business

Unattained goals continue to bother me as time flies day after day ... My focus after marriage has been my family completely .... All the prana is invested in family during weekends & work/intellect during weekdays. Yes, this is necessary as I need to learn to live with Siva before I can merge with Him.

And the concern over the non-attaining of career & material goals & hence their delaying is on the increase everyday.


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How we breathe is how we live

Off late I'm experiencing a state occasionally where I'm observing that the objects present themselves in their fullness, it just comes, when this happens there are only the objects showing up and no me (ego). A moment later contemplation jumps in & I observe that the objects do not exist for me if I wasn't there. In other words the life energy in me is responsible for the powering of my eyes, Ears, nose, skin etc which makes these objects appear and present themselves. If I were to withdraw this energy from my body, the objects really do not exist. So the whole world is just a projection of my own self. Would I see it If the energy didn't power my senses? No. To summarize light & sound constitutes all form and is a creation of the mind. The mind is nothing but form, creation, preserving, destroying forms & the cycles continue.

Also learning this beautiful lesson from tantra that How we breathe is how we live in life ... Breath has a direct connection to thought patterns. There must be a math equation to prove it, someone will surely prove it in future.

There are some more updates which must come shortly to this blog post.

The Triple Filter Test

My Gurudeva often mentioned that we should always speak what is Kind, Useful & Necessary. Recently got an email which mentions the same in a nice way.


In ancient Greece , Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said, "Do you know what I just heard about your friend?" 

"Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything, I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."  

"Triple filter?" 

"That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what you're going to say. That's why I call it the triple filter test." 

"The first filter is TRUTH. Have you made absolutely sure that what you  are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..." 

'All right," said Socrates . "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of GOODNESS. Is what you are about to tell me about my friend something good?" 

"No, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but  you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test though, because there's one filter left: the filter of USEFULNESS. Is what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?" 

"No, not really."

"Well," concluded Socrates , "if what you want to tell me is neither true  nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?" 

USE this triple filter each time you hear loose talk about any of your near & dear friends.

Utilizing the Ajna Chakra

Over the past few days, I have started learning the power of Ajna Chakra (the command centre) also known as the third eye. Was able to visualize a complex problem in meditation and solve the same. The solution came in just a few seconds in meditation, but translating to the the physical solution after I came out from Meditation and started working on the solution – took approximately 4 –5 hours.

The Visualization using the third eye functions at a higher rate that the conscious mind, hence the difference in timing. Complex solutions can come in an intuitive flash in seconds, but the same may take many hours of work when translated to actual work which of-course requires again channelizing the willpower on the specified work (without getting affected if distractions do come and bother).

Need to continue the use of the Ajna chakra more often for contributing to mankind in a better way ever day ! Thanks to my Gurudeva for teaching me its existence & use.

Zen

1. Learning a lot of things from my Italian friend - I myself get to learn lot of things while we communicate. Thanks Mirko.

2. Thanks to Mitti for casually introducing me to zen meditation. I am able to get more contemplative by practicing their koans (koan is a question - which can't be solved by the intellect and may not make sense but can be only answered through intuition) - example: what's the sound of left hand? Who am I now? To whom is this thought? Who is the non thinker? Etc

When in zen state - "now" is experienced. I'm not planning anything - the Objects are just showing up in their fullness. Its possible for me to easily be in that state for short durations - but being there for longer durations is a challenge - or that's what my mind opines. Daily i observe that i don't take my own mind and its opinions seriously anymore. Dear mind, you are losing hold of me. I'm getting free and one day u will just be my tool who will come only when i will.

Shifu in kungfu panda says - give up the illusion that you are the doer. I applied this at work and was amazed by the results. Mind is no more in an urgency or fear of failure. There is just pure persistence and i was able to solve a really complex problem at work. Thanks shifu. Yes, all are teachers in this life. Some teach what to do, some teach what not to do.

Anbe siva mayam satyame parasivam