The love that buries behind
veils of noises and incoherence.
The days I spend in
solitude among loved ones.
The verses I keep to myself
fearing sunlight forever.
The spends out of
my empty wallet.
The time we spend to
make each other happy.
And fall into a deep
silence when we meet again.
The sun - the life giver
hurts the eye when met.
(written under circumstances that left me with lack of expression in words, money and love)
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Natural Law - cycles of birth and death
Life comes full circle - not once, but every moment.
Every week in my life has days when I'm high, energetic, creative and happy. There are days when I'm sad, feeling low, irritable and angry. Cycles of birth and death don't come once in a lifetime or once every rebirth, they happen around us, always.
Saints and philosophers have spoken enough about the cycles and the means of beating them. So what really are these cycles? Here I ponder...
Natural law has a way of perfoming a balancing act. It gives us equal amounts of pain and ecstacy, equal quantities of hardships and joy. I've come to understand that when there is a ascension in one direction, the other side tends to go down.
In all our sorrows, we have a lesson to learn. We come in tune with the inner self. We understand one more aspect of our being. So what does happiness have in store for us? Whenever we are happy, we forget to think of ourselves. We become extraverts. We rarely think of the inner being when thing are going the right way. Natural law suggests that happiness too has learnings out of it. The learning I got is that any happiness has a equal and opposite sorrow, if not now, going forward, or has happened sometime back. Now how forward or back is a tough one to answer. It could be minutes or years or rebirths. The deeper we imagine, the tougher it gets. But one could find it for oneself.
So next time you are filled with unhappiness, understand that a karma is being served or a happiness is on the charts. Don't take my word for it. Observe your own lives and then realise how often the cycles repeat. Is there a way to beat the cycle. Yes they say and I agree with them.
Meditation
Meditation takes us to a median. It makes us moderate and liberates us from the cycles of birth and death... sorrow and happiness. Liberation is not for the outer world, it's for the seer of the world. The way we see things change and we are able to liberate ourselves from the position of a victim or a doer to the level of a witness.
As a witness, it's like watching a soap opera. Laugh when there is a lighter scene and sob when you can't take it. As a witness, it does not happen to you, it happens to a person you are watching. Just sit back and relax. That is the state meditation can take us to. It can't rid us off sorrow, it can't give us happiness. But it can liberate us from the clutches of these cycles. It can put us in the seat of a referee.
Meditation is not the only way out of the never ending roller-coaster called cycles of birth and death. There are other ways too. For the grounded and introverted, meditation works best. For others (depending on their temperament) they could try any of these:
Every week in my life has days when I'm high, energetic, creative and happy. There are days when I'm sad, feeling low, irritable and angry. Cycles of birth and death don't come once in a lifetime or once every rebirth, they happen around us, always.
Saints and philosophers have spoken enough about the cycles and the means of beating them. So what really are these cycles? Here I ponder...
Natural law has a way of perfoming a balancing act. It gives us equal amounts of pain and ecstacy, equal quantities of hardships and joy. I've come to understand that when there is a ascension in one direction, the other side tends to go down.
In all our sorrows, we have a lesson to learn. We come in tune with the inner self. We understand one more aspect of our being. So what does happiness have in store for us? Whenever we are happy, we forget to think of ourselves. We become extraverts. We rarely think of the inner being when thing are going the right way. Natural law suggests that happiness too has learnings out of it. The learning I got is that any happiness has a equal and opposite sorrow, if not now, going forward, or has happened sometime back. Now how forward or back is a tough one to answer. It could be minutes or years or rebirths. The deeper we imagine, the tougher it gets. But one could find it for oneself.
So next time you are filled with unhappiness, understand that a karma is being served or a happiness is on the charts. Don't take my word for it. Observe your own lives and then realise how often the cycles repeat. Is there a way to beat the cycle. Yes they say and I agree with them.
Meditation
Meditation takes us to a median. It makes us moderate and liberates us from the cycles of birth and death... sorrow and happiness. Liberation is not for the outer world, it's for the seer of the world. The way we see things change and we are able to liberate ourselves from the position of a victim or a doer to the level of a witness.
As a witness, it's like watching a soap opera. Laugh when there is a lighter scene and sob when you can't take it. As a witness, it does not happen to you, it happens to a person you are watching. Just sit back and relax. That is the state meditation can take us to. It can't rid us off sorrow, it can't give us happiness. But it can liberate us from the clutches of these cycles. It can put us in the seat of a referee.
Meditation is not the only way out of the never ending roller-coaster called cycles of birth and death. There are other ways too. For the grounded and introverted, meditation works best. For others (depending on their temperament) they could try any of these:
- Bakthi
- Kriya (Yoga)
- Slokas (Veda)
- Karma Yoga
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
no mind
From mind to no-mind is a journey of a lifetime. There are moments when I'm so engrossed in thoughts - I forget even my presence. The moment I start observing the thoughts, they start waning into nothingness, like a stream (that I'm sitting beside and watching) suddenly dropped southward into a hole on it's path.
Life is so boring without thoughts though, because I've been living with them from the day I lost my innocence. Thinking of the next holiday as a kid, thinking of females when I grew up (I do that even now), thinking of life when responsibilities grew as hair started falling!
Thoughts - what is this incredible thing that keeps me imprisioned in a cocoon of imagery and a world not seen. They are different from my dreams, because I can observe that I am thinking unlike in a dream where I'm unaware of the state of imagination. It's a feel good factor when things simply don't move the way I want them to... when my boss does not understand your aspirations, I still could think about gaining power over situations one day.
They also create an anti-real transformation in the body-mind and the circumstances. I think and imagine to have a quiet evening at home and am plesantly driving down the road, when somebody from nowhere cuts in front - I jam the brakes. Blood rushes just enof to spill out of my eyes and gasping heart. Transformation through circumstances. What happened to the quiet evening and the bliss of home? It's nowhere. The bubble is burst... Streams of cursing, thinking (again) and repenting what was not.
Think - think of not thinking. No thoughts come to my mind when I think about what I am thinking. When the mind is a no-mind, when thoughts break open to reality... the real is bliss. Reality harms the body-mind NOT. In reality, I react. In thoughts I react and carry the load into the system. Reality is light while thoughts burden my shoulders, shorten my breath, stiffen my muscles and make me old.
I thank the God for the moments of bliss that I encounter by way of no-mind experiences.
eM Dharma
Life is so boring without thoughts though, because I've been living with them from the day I lost my innocence. Thinking of the next holiday as a kid, thinking of females when I grew up (I do that even now), thinking of life when responsibilities grew as hair started falling!
Thoughts - what is this incredible thing that keeps me imprisioned in a cocoon of imagery and a world not seen. They are different from my dreams, because I can observe that I am thinking unlike in a dream where I'm unaware of the state of imagination. It's a feel good factor when things simply don't move the way I want them to... when my boss does not understand your aspirations, I still could think about gaining power over situations one day.
They also create an anti-real transformation in the body-mind and the circumstances. I think and imagine to have a quiet evening at home and am plesantly driving down the road, when somebody from nowhere cuts in front - I jam the brakes. Blood rushes just enof to spill out of my eyes and gasping heart. Transformation through circumstances. What happened to the quiet evening and the bliss of home? It's nowhere. The bubble is burst... Streams of cursing, thinking (again) and repenting what was not.
Think - think of not thinking. No thoughts come to my mind when I think about what I am thinking. When the mind is a no-mind, when thoughts break open to reality... the real is bliss. Reality harms the body-mind NOT. In reality, I react. In thoughts I react and carry the load into the system. Reality is light while thoughts burden my shoulders, shorten my breath, stiffen my muscles and make me old.
I thank the God for the moments of bliss that I encounter by way of no-mind experiences.
eM Dharma
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