12th January 2007
Friends with mysteries as deep and unidentifiable as the Universe. You miss them the most because they force you to return to the basics. What you know is never as important as what you say. What you say, and what you do. Will you hold their hands and comfort them? The process of uncovering the truth is selfless love. This process is the meaning of life, and not knowledge of the unknown. Soon enough, the mystery becomes irrelevant, and there is laughter all around. Because you have touched me, smiled at me and have held my hand.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
28th November 2006
While chasing a dream, you could either fail or succeed. But you must chase aggressively and remain focused. Otherwise, there could be a third result: Not knowing what hit you or where you're going. Failing feels a lot better than this. You can hold your head up and say, 'I'm onto the next big thing. Want to know more?' In other words, you will have something to say, pun intended. Only if you fail or succeed. Not if you don't know what's hitting you.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
2nd October 2006
I have had an intense week, and several ideas arrived around the same time. I thank you for your patience, as I present them all within a single Outpour: Love, Life's Questions, Ego Balloon and Works of Art.
My love is as natural as the air you breathe. Your birthright, all around you, inside you. Yes, you can take it for granted, because it seeks nothing in return. It has been around as long as Creation, yet fresh and specially for you, it appears out of nowhere, comforting you, your current needs, your problems, your dreams and aspirations. It is a part of you, your being. It is selfless, from the one Self, which we cannot understand, only experience.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possesed. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. For love is sufficient unto itself. And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Kahlil Gibran in 'The Prophet'
Life's 3 questions: What am I capable of? What am I doing? What's going to happen? To pass, you need to answer two correctly. The first two. If you try to answer the third, your 1st and 2nd answer might be unsatisfactory or even dead wrong. Two out of 3 is enough. Because the first two provide the answer to the third over time, outside the examination hall, your complex mind. Out, in the real world.
Your ego is like any other balloon. If you blow too hard, and too long, it will eventually burst and make a lot of noise. Another way to keep your ego in check, without the pyrotechnics, is to consistently, over time, make holes in the balloon. These holes are the precautions you take with your character, your behaviour to ensure your speech, thoughts and action are pure and united. Subsequently, under any given situation, no matter how hard anyone else, including yourself is blowing the Ego Balloon, its never going to inflate and fizzle out very quickly and silently. Be careful not to make so many holes that your balloon completely disappears. Death of self respect is no different to Death, the real thing.
Viewing life as a movie, as a third person is a common technique for the spiritual aspirant to control the monkey mind. Life can also be a modern art musuem. Fascinating at times, dead boring at some places. Confusing most of the time, very erratic and wide ranging. Yet, every exhibit has a reason for being, with a message and a purpose. Every work of art is full of evidence of creative genius, a guiding hand, working through the artist, fuelling his/her imagination, so that you, the musuem visitor ends up having a great time and journey, albeit one full of mixed emotions and experiences.
I have had an intense week, and several ideas arrived around the same time. I thank you for your patience, as I present them all within a single Outpour: Love, Life's Questions, Ego Balloon and Works of Art.
My love is as natural as the air you breathe. Your birthright, all around you, inside you. Yes, you can take it for granted, because it seeks nothing in return. It has been around as long as Creation, yet fresh and specially for you, it appears out of nowhere, comforting you, your current needs, your problems, your dreams and aspirations. It is a part of you, your being. It is selfless, from the one Self, which we cannot understand, only experience.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not, nor would it be possesed. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. For love is sufficient unto itself. And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Kahlil Gibran in 'The Prophet'
Life's 3 questions: What am I capable of? What am I doing? What's going to happen? To pass, you need to answer two correctly. The first two. If you try to answer the third, your 1st and 2nd answer might be unsatisfactory or even dead wrong. Two out of 3 is enough. Because the first two provide the answer to the third over time, outside the examination hall, your complex mind. Out, in the real world.
Your ego is like any other balloon. If you blow too hard, and too long, it will eventually burst and make a lot of noise. Another way to keep your ego in check, without the pyrotechnics, is to consistently, over time, make holes in the balloon. These holes are the precautions you take with your character, your behaviour to ensure your speech, thoughts and action are pure and united. Subsequently, under any given situation, no matter how hard anyone else, including yourself is blowing the Ego Balloon, its never going to inflate and fizzle out very quickly and silently. Be careful not to make so many holes that your balloon completely disappears. Death of self respect is no different to Death, the real thing.
Viewing life as a movie, as a third person is a common technique for the spiritual aspirant to control the monkey mind. Life can also be a modern art musuem. Fascinating at times, dead boring at some places. Confusing most of the time, very erratic and wide ranging. Yet, every exhibit has a reason for being, with a message and a purpose. Every work of art is full of evidence of creative genius, a guiding hand, working through the artist, fuelling his/her imagination, so that you, the musuem visitor ends up having a great time and journey, albeit one full of mixed emotions and experiences.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
22nd August 2006
Now that I have returned to Scotland, the next big question: Will I settle down here for life, and which city, and if not for life, how long for? Now, you know why the question is 'big', not because it is profound and thought provoking, but because it is actually 3 questions rolled into one.
You could add more complexity at your own peril. Thankfully, I found the perfect answer today. Though I knew it all along, I was not able to express it this simply. Vision is more important than planning. With a great vision and goal, your planning becomes intuitive and unassuming. There is always wind beneath your wings, so you stop noticing it. But it is nudging you in the right direction. If you are staying calm with a great vision under your belt, you're doing quite well, even if you aren't able to answer the 'big' questions.
What do you want to do with your life? I like this question better folks.
Source: Today's Outpour was inspired, as expected, because of a 'big' question from a friend. Thank you, friend.
Now that I have returned to Scotland, the next big question: Will I settle down here for life, and which city, and if not for life, how long for? Now, you know why the question is 'big', not because it is profound and thought provoking, but because it is actually 3 questions rolled into one.
You could add more complexity at your own peril. Thankfully, I found the perfect answer today. Though I knew it all along, I was not able to express it this simply. Vision is more important than planning. With a great vision and goal, your planning becomes intuitive and unassuming. There is always wind beneath your wings, so you stop noticing it. But it is nudging you in the right direction. If you are staying calm with a great vision under your belt, you're doing quite well, even if you aren't able to answer the 'big' questions.
What do you want to do with your life? I like this question better folks.
Source: Today's Outpour was inspired, as expected, because of a 'big' question from a friend. Thank you, friend.
Friday, June 09, 2006
10th June 2006
I think at one point in time, it used to be easy to say. I'm not hurt, it's all spiritual. Nowadays, we need a deeper, rational explanation. If consumers have become demanding, so have the seekers of the truth. So be it.
Affection and affected are 2 different words. Of course, they sound the same, but they mean different things. It is very good, very commendable to have affection for someone. But not good to be affected by someone, or anything related to someone. How? When we say namaste, we are not saying hello to the person, per se, but to the soul or spirit within. We are actually bowing down in humility (yeah, so it's not technically a hello or a hi five, but an actual salutation. Try saying namaste with a stiff back and try to really mean it. Not possible. You WILL bend a bit at least). Same thing with affection. Have affection towards a person's spirit. How? Your affection must be genuine and deep. How? It has to be selfless. Why? Because as we all know, if you expect nothing, you're loving for no reason. If there has to be a reason, it has to do with GIVING. When you give, its human nature to be happy. Getting affection confused with attachment? Back to the nature of our good 'ol spirit. The spirit or spark or soul, give it any name, is DIVINE. If its divine, it is all pervasive, it is yours, it is mine, it is ours, it is ONE. We are ONE. We can only be attached to something, if we are separate from something. Therefore, if your affection is directed towards a person's spirit, you will not have to worry about attachment, and hence, the prospect of being affected.
The key to this is practice. Practice with constant prayer. Especially during any conflict in the mind. Focus on the rational explanation. If it still fails (By the way, everyone has a different definition of failure. If you're cool with crying in private, you have not really failed if that's what happens to you, or if that's how you deal with things. Define for yourself.), then you can go back to the good 'ol maxim, 'I'm not hurt. Its all spiritual'. Believe it or not, once you do say it, out aloud or mentally, it becomes the sacred responsibility of the elements to knock some sense into your head.
And knock they do. :)
I think at one point in time, it used to be easy to say. I'm not hurt, it's all spiritual. Nowadays, we need a deeper, rational explanation. If consumers have become demanding, so have the seekers of the truth. So be it.
Affection and affected are 2 different words. Of course, they sound the same, but they mean different things. It is very good, very commendable to have affection for someone. But not good to be affected by someone, or anything related to someone. How? When we say namaste, we are not saying hello to the person, per se, but to the soul or spirit within. We are actually bowing down in humility (yeah, so it's not technically a hello or a hi five, but an actual salutation. Try saying namaste with a stiff back and try to really mean it. Not possible. You WILL bend a bit at least). Same thing with affection. Have affection towards a person's spirit. How? Your affection must be genuine and deep. How? It has to be selfless. Why? Because as we all know, if you expect nothing, you're loving for no reason. If there has to be a reason, it has to do with GIVING. When you give, its human nature to be happy. Getting affection confused with attachment? Back to the nature of our good 'ol spirit. The spirit or spark or soul, give it any name, is DIVINE. If its divine, it is all pervasive, it is yours, it is mine, it is ours, it is ONE. We are ONE. We can only be attached to something, if we are separate from something. Therefore, if your affection is directed towards a person's spirit, you will not have to worry about attachment, and hence, the prospect of being affected.
The key to this is practice. Practice with constant prayer. Especially during any conflict in the mind. Focus on the rational explanation. If it still fails (By the way, everyone has a different definition of failure. If you're cool with crying in private, you have not really failed if that's what happens to you, or if that's how you deal with things. Define for yourself.), then you can go back to the good 'ol maxim, 'I'm not hurt. Its all spiritual'. Believe it or not, once you do say it, out aloud or mentally, it becomes the sacred responsibility of the elements to knock some sense into your head.
And knock they do. :)
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