Awareness makes a difference -
Recently I have been through a shibir whose sole purpose was "awareness".
Awareness is the first step to success in anything be it personal peace, work etc.
What changes when you are aware?
Its not that you will stop making mistakes once you are aware. But you will learn from incidences, small incidences big lessons. For e.g. you get angry due to some incidence, if you are unaware, you will mostly miss the reason you became angry(I am not saying this will stop your anger next time as well). But if you are aware, it will be clear to you that the anger was a waste of time, emotion and happened for a reason which is not within your control. Then you suddenly realize that then its not worth getting angry. And we already know the effect of realization at all levels. But this realization will have an immediate impact.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Sunday, April 06, 2008
The recent experience
I attended a diksha Shibir for 2 days. It was a truly amazing experience. It was about awareness. The experience cannot be described in words because words will always short fall of the indiviual experience. Some take aways for me were:
If not applied, its a waste.
Consistency is the key to progress.
Be aware.
Love life, Live life, do not complain.
Although mind still wanders but now in the right direction. The effect of the whole thing is self-observance. The realization is that I have been taking everything seriously, my work, my family, my games everything except myself, the inner self. It was rightly asked in the shibir, what do we do differently then other biengs even when we know we have a superior mind. I did not have an answer, atleast from my indiviual perspective, myself. We do the same routine thing as other creatures. We may have some sophostication in everything but nothing different, nothing deep. One thing is sure that you have to go through the shibir to get the experience because everyone's experience is different. Now the only that matters is consistency, awareness and a clean life (be it food, emotions, work).
If not applied, its a waste.
Consistency is the key to progress.
Be aware.
Love life, Live life, do not complain.
Although mind still wanders but now in the right direction. The effect of the whole thing is self-observance. The realization is that I have been taking everything seriously, my work, my family, my games everything except myself, the inner self. It was rightly asked in the shibir, what do we do differently then other biengs even when we know we have a superior mind. I did not have an answer, atleast from my indiviual perspective, myself. We do the same routine thing as other creatures. We may have some sophostication in everything but nothing different, nothing deep. One thing is sure that you have to go through the shibir to get the experience because everyone's experience is different. Now the only that matters is consistency, awareness and a clean life (be it food, emotions, work).
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