Heroes

 

All the heroes, are they you and me?

He will return. The sun shines again. Bringing new hope.

The birds fly in joy.

Living each day, isn’t it heroic?

All the heroes return, somewhere.

 

All the stories have something to tell.

Each new day brings a new story. Most full of pain.

Can we move away from the pain,

And see the pure beauty hiding?

 

All the people live each day

Hoping that the new day

Will be a new birth.

Its hope that keeps us going.

 

All the songs are so melodious

Each melody has a different story

Each one tugging and touching someone.

 

And we just flow….with the breeze

Through life. Battered and beaten.

But victorious too, like each lotus that blossoms

Somehow.

 

True Happiness

 

True happiness……so difficult to define. In fact, rarely acknowledged as it should be. Happenings rarely get deciphered as true happiness. Look inside your heart and soul. Its right there. Means different things to us all.

 

 

The truest happiness lies in looking at your baby looking up at you smiling. Its the purest joy there can be. The  baby holds your finger with complete trust, saying i won’t ever let you go, i own you now.

The truest happiness lies in the gurgle of your baby’s laughter. Can you hear it? So free and intoxicating. You could die for it. It lies in the hug and kiss of your child.

The truest happiness lies in the feeling of the raindrops on your face. Look up at the sky and see how it blesses the earth and quenches its thirst. See the trees glowing in happiness around you.

The truest happiness lies in the birds flight. The significance of that freedom. To fly anywhere. The beautiful colours of their feathers.

The truest happiness lies in feeling the cool breeze on your face. Touching you gently and moving on. The beautiful waves of the ocean rushing back and forth, so calmly. There is no hurry.

The truest happiness lies in doing something for someone with wanting nothing in return. In giving selflessly and completely.

The truest happiness lies in the state of no thoughts. No tainted. No nothing. Just pure space.

 

It lies right here, inside you. Beside you. Around you. And yet, we can’t see it sometimes. Its heaven on earth.

Everything Went Wrong Today

Everything went wrong today. Everything that is unthinkable happened. Why would one think it anyway? No need to. But sometimes things just happen. Nothing seems right and you wonder when the day will end. You sit wondering what hit you. However strong you may be, there are just some of those days that you don’t know how to cope with it. Don’t understand how to handle the pressure. Have no clue as to how things will ever get fixed. Wonder why you are in the situation you are in. Wonder which road you took, that got you here, anyway and which is the way out.

The understanding that takes months or years or maybe sometimes seconds to build, just goes away…… out the nearest window. All the inner peace and happiness, goes for a toss.
And, is this fine? Is it acceptable sometimes, to let down your guard and let your tears flow?
Is it acceptable sometimes, not to be a super being all the time?
Is it acceptable sometimes, to not have all the answers, to not even know them?
Is it acceptable sometimes, to feel lost?
Is it acceptable sometimes, to want to be with someone, and yet alone?

Yes. The answer to all the questions is YES. Its acceptable. Because you are accepted as you are. Things may not always go the way you hoped they would. But then things change. Times change. The way they find a route in, they find a route out. Tomorrow will be a better day, we can only live in hope.

 

This would probably make sense another day, when perspective will change.
When the situation has changed. And you will understand… the reason why things happen.

Excess Baggage

The energy of the soul is light, pure, free full of love and uncontaminated with thoughts and feelings. That is how it comes back into this world. Somewhere down the line, the soul gathers excess baggage. The baggage of thoughts, ideas,  misconceptions, feelings of anger, fear, guilt, remorse, hatred,  and many more emotions.

The energy of the soul is no longer free and independent. It is bogged down by all this baggage that is tying us down, smothering us, suffocating us and also sometimes making us feel completely overwhelmed. The soul has become dependent on the emotions we fed it, which manoeuvre us into doing deeds. It has become a parasite to these emotions and thoughts.

 

 

Wouldn’t it be great to be free again? To feel the pure love that we are?

 

One way of doing it would be by not ignoring our past. Looking at it objectively in our mind, without over analyzing. Just watching the past events of our lives, and accepting them completely. No blaming, no regrets, no hatred and most importantly no fixed ideas about who we are. Somewhere between coming into this world and now, we lost who we are and that’s what we are looking for. We can’t change the past. We cannot change anyone. But we can change ourselves by accepting what we are today, coming to terms with the past and start forgiving ourselves. It isn’t for us to forgive others. When we are able to forgive ourselves, we have started shedding the excess baggage.  Once we have started this, we have started making new choices. These choices will heal us and make us more joyful. It will only lead us to a better place, it will lead us to ourselves, to purity. It will lead us to inner peace and love and pure happiness we all keep looking for.

 

Spaces

Clearing our space, at work and home, is such an ongoing process. We clean and before we know it, its a mess again. And we clean again. Why? Why is this important? Its important because this is what reflects who we are, who we want to be. This is what makes us what we are.




Clutter only attracts more clutter. Clutter in front of us, that we keep looking at, will attract more and that too in our mind. The more we organize and clear our spaces, the more relaxed and focused we become internally. Open spaces will open up our minds. Constantly try to stay free of messes, and its not just the space around us, its our cupboard, desk, garage, store room, bedroom, kitchen. Even our email inbox, our mobiles, accumulated newspapers and magazines, de weeding of plants… everything we can think of.

We are energy and there is energy all around us. When we clean up the space around us, we are allowing the energy to flow. Hoarding, stocking old things, broken things won’t help us at all. Clear it out. Get rid of it. We are blocking energy from flowing into those spaces. When the energy flows, prosperity does too. Remove things that don’t matter, thus allowing the positive energies to flow into your home and life.



The way we clean our clutter outside, its important to clean it up inside too. Detoxify. Eat right. Exercise. Stay healthy and have good thoughts. Don’t let the unwanted thoughts to linger on in your mind. Force them out.



Do all this systematically. One at a time, no need to rush. But do it. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Once you do it, its amazing how energized and happy you feel. How productive you become. Totally rejuvenated . Inside and outside.

The Chattering Monkey

The mind is constantly in movement . We may be sitting doing nothing, but the mind is moving at 200 kms per hour. Racing away .

A lot of our energy goes into this thought association and reliving our memories. The repeated thoughts keep representing themselves again and again often offering no solution instead only re strengthening our unhappiness / grief / sadness towards that particular incident.

 

This untrained mind , is compared to a Chattering Monkey in Buddhism which is constantly jumping  from branch to branch . While this doesn't sound flattering at all , it IS a pretty accurate observation.  Sadly this is happening all the time , so it would be good to train your chattering monkey .

We are constantly thinking , worrying , agitating over things . And in that process , forget to live and enjoy now. We clean our homes and the same way we can clean our minds . The way we have to switch off a running motor , the same way we can learn how to switch off our minds . Negative feeling and thoughts will do us no good . Positive feelings and internal co ordination will bring us joy , peace and happiness .  How do we then get rid of unwanted thoughts ?

 

While there are probably many ways you can do it , and maybe you discover your own way , you can try this also . Sit still and relax.

Let the awareness roam through your body , gently relaxing each part and come to the center of your being . All the while , contacting and connecting all  parts , breathing deeply and steadily . Its also called centering . Focusing your complete awareness in the center .

 

Slowly and steadily , the training of the mind will help you control the Chattering Monkey . . . . .   At least a bit . . . 

 

10 Minutes of Nirvana…. maybe?

Osho said -  If you are looking for a certain meaning , you will not find it . Don’t move with any fixed idea . Go open  and empty and you will find – not only one meaning – you will find a thousand and one meanings .

What is Nirvana ?  So many have described this as the experience of ultimate freedom in life  , but rarely the Masters . The Masters know that there is no description to Nirvana . Nirvana happens . It is a lock  , which opens without a key . Because a key was never made . It could not be made . Everyone has a different way to it and it holds a different meaning for everyone, a different key for each one of us. Totally unique . So , it cannot be explained , only experienced . To feel what the Buddha felt , you would have to become the Buddha .

 

Learning to breathe correctly , takes us  a long way in making us calm , aware , focussed and productive . That’s what Nirvana is about .  It isn’t about running away some place  for it , its about doing it right here and right now , within the confines of your spaces . Whether home or office.

 

Just try setting a timer for 10 minutes . Close your eyes . And appreciate the darkness . The sheer nothingness .  Appreciate that you will always go back to seeing when you do open your eyes .  Feel the air around you  . Feel each breath coming into and leaving your body . When you breathe in , let the focus of thoughts be on  the new ,  the fresh , the positive . When you breathe out , let the flow of thoughts be on the old , the stale , the negative  in your body  , which are flowing out of your body now .  Visualize it .  Be creative . Leave all your ideas and the things you may have heard behind . Find your own way . The way will find you too .

 

When your timer sounds , just calmly come back to the world .  You will feel a lot more serene and conscious . . .  but as i said . . . . maybe . . . . . .