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.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Inner room mate
Excerpt from the book "the untethered soul"
You're ready to grow when you finally realise that the"I" who is always talking inside will never be content. It always has a problem with something.
Before you had your current problem, there was a different problem. And if you're wise you will realise that after this one's gone,there will be another one.
The bottom line is, you'll never be free of problems until you're free from the part within that has so many problems.
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
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Decisions
We only give importance to our decisions. We only responsible for justifying a decision's validity. We are only responsible to trying to detect patterns in nature assuming that an extrernal force is helping us to arrive at a decision.
I have been going through tough decision making situations off late w.r.t work,home,career etc which could affect the lives of myself and the people I love both positively and negatively. There is no one decision which is clearly right or clearly wrong. And there isn't any external help from God though it appears that he is helping.
One alone is responsible for his thoughts, decisions and their consequences. Sometimes there are consequences for not making any decision too.
Life is complex and I'm experiencing the highest ramifications off late. Is there anything like intuition or is it my own mind throwing subconscious ideas ? I'll never know.
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