The choice of choicelessness

 

Freedom

At any given moment of time, either you focus on something or just entertain thoughts as a free flow, there is a chain of thoughts, and every thought is associated with a feeling, emotion and sentiment.

We don't have a control over what thought occupies our mind, at any moment.

Rarely some of us, are capable of consciously looking at the thought that comes to our mind, and still rarely some of us, can change our mind and entertain thought at our will, even if we try to entertain a new thought, that new thought too, is conditioned, meaning, it is not that new.

we go ether-thither with the chain of thoughts and associated feelings most of the times, and go through the mood swings.

Meditation is a process of not allowing external stimuli to interfere with our thoughts, and an attempt is made to control our thoughts. At higher levels, we can silence our mind, and have a zero thought state of mind. Even then, the thought of "I" will still be there, if that is also transcended one goes to samadhi state.

Now let us come back to the workings of the mind, all thoughts are either an experience or a plan or an imagination.

Character is a bundle of our imprints, vasanas and genetic stuff.

Our behavior is suppose to reveal our character, thanks to the social conditioning, we doctor our behavior to reveal ourselves which do not truly represent our character, this creates stress.

True happiness is being without reflecting, being in the flow, but, as we are conditioned, this flow does not happen, as we constantly try to work on the thoughts consciously.

Our desire to achieve something, and our desire to reach a goal, will make us focus on our thoughts, and try to work the chain to our benefit.

so, we are trading our happiness to be happy!!

How then to be happy, unconsciously live with a flow, and as well achieve our goals and desires.

there are two ways to achieve this, the easier way, and the tougher way.

the easier way is to resign to a power above, meaning, believing whatever is happening to us, happens for a reason, and there is an higher power and things happen according to "the plan' so stop thinking and start living.

the tougher way is work on the character, look at ourselves consciously watch the characteristic trait from which the thoughts emerge, look at that imprint or vasana, work on it and change it.

The tougher path needs a lot of help, the other path needs just one thing, to shed our "ego".

 

The True Calling

The True Calling

Be careful little eyes what you see

As what you see, may block your vision

Be careful little ears what you hear

As the noise you hear may silence your listening

Be careful little hands what you touch

As the feel from your touch may make you insensitive

Be careful little mind what you think

As the thoughts that occupy your mind will enslave you.

Pray pray pray

To transcend the bombarding information

And prepare to silence

To listen to the omnipresent message

-          The true calling.

A new, New Year resolve

There are so many questions in life that we are unable to get the right type of answers, when I was a kid, I saw my neighbor smoking and told my dad that he is bad, but, he said he has a bad habit, but not a bad man. But, the type of imprints that we get through the movies are very powerful, many of the movies that had gone in the head kept reiterating, that money is bad, somebody does something for money, we consider that to be bad, we are finding it very difficult to draw a line, what is good and what is bad?

On the one hand, we say lying is bad, but we are sometimes comfortable lying and also seem to get away with it, we also have justification for whatever we do, what looked easily like a bad thing to do, slowly when we grew up starting seeing them in grey, may not be really bad , but ……

Yes, once we grow, we grow with knowledge, and with the increase in knowledge we happen to only become unsure with many things, but still, if we think otherwise, like, only because of fear one needs to be doing things rightfully, then again we go back to the stone age of might is right, like, now it will become smart is right, if I could commit some mistake and getaway from law smartly, then I am right.

Here, let us in this New Year therefore resolve to audit our activities and happening.

We will maintain a sheet of paper and every day evening, right what happened to us, and what we did, let it be the list of all those activities that come closer to our conscience.

Say, if we lie, if we did not pay a tip, or parked in a pay park area and came without paying, or deliberately gave a promise knowingly pretty well that we will not keep the promise up etc.,

And let us also maintain a note of all those things that happened to us, like getting a headache for no reason, unnecessarily wasting money on something. Our valuable or not so valuable things getting lost. If we track such trivial activities and such trivial guilty things also, then over a period of time, there is a possibility that we may get an insight as to whether there is any scientific connection, it may not reveal itself immediately, but let us make a beginning.

By being in this group, one need not disclose everything, but let us be true to our own self, and let us share in a broad conceptual manner at the end of the year as to what had been our learning outcome then.

If you wish to join, please reply to this from the email id to which a yahoo group invitation will be sent to you.

Let us this year, make a new resolution which is going to help us discover something new, may be it will help us or our future generation.

who will fill the vacuum of a super hero?

There is an inherent desire in all of us to see something extraordinary, all of us, at the base of the heart do not want to accept science, we need something beyond science, some miracle, some inexplicable phenomena, which makes us wake up, we want even from science something unexplainable. this want in us is being constantly filled by something or the other, once upon a time it was the mythological figures, then it was the characters in the drama, then it was characters in the cartoons, books and novels, then it was the film stars. Today, all this is over, we have made them humans, we have brought them down from their pedestal. Now, who are what is going to get to the centre stage?

Life and afterlife coaching

It takes two for salsa, goes the saying, Traditioinally India had the strength of the joint family and the rest of the family contributed their might to make somebody successful and an hero. it took a chanakya to make a chandragupta and bring the Nanda dynasty to an end. It took an Aristotle to make an Alexander.

Today, it is all the more important for us to develop a mentor a father figure, who should be wise enough to keep track and show the changeless personality which is behind the changing personality a person lives through.

It takes some EGO to execute things and become a winner, whatever you mean by it, and it takes the strength of a EGO less person to power the ego to execute, so, it is two contradictory characteristics which can team up and should team up to make a greatest hero.

Do you want such a Ego less person to power you to success?

Sundararajan, you're a Green Giant

Can one person make a big difference? Absolutely, and you're doing it! From separating your recyclables to carpooling, you're well on your way to having the green lifestyle all wrapped up (in recycled paper?). But there is room for improvement, you know. Good thing you have the drive and the initiative to keep seeking out more ways to make a difference! You're probably going to be the one to start a clean air initiative in your neighborhood or to install that new low-flow toilet. Can't you see it?

Of course you've still got a few big lifestyle changes to make before you can declare yourself perfectly green, but that's okay. Who doesn't love a little challenge? Keep making your life eco-friendly — the planet needs you!

one more decision making

To take the car or the bike to office, whether to buy a share on the intra day trade in the market, factors influence the first one are, weather, like if it is too hot, take the car, but if it is overcast, then it is good to have a bike drive, but if it rains, then car is better, but, how will we know, whether it will rain or not?

will traffic slow me down? it will depend on the type of route i will take, if i take a certain route then car is faster or else bike is faster, but what about the dust and the pollution, okay, what about addiction, if I start taking car on all days, then i may not take my bike at all!~! this is what happened when i bought the bike for my cycle.
Then the cost factor, then the parking problem!!!

To do or not to do!!