We have heard many times that whatever is in your mind gets manifested in your life. Be it thoughts, feelings or emotions.
So, You are told to think positive. But its vicious spiral as we are under gravitation force.
Let me tell you a short story here. One day a disciple came to the master and told him I want to learn new things. He went on to say I have learned this, I know this, I know that too. Pls teach me new things.
Master said okay but first let's have some tea. Master takes a pot and starts pouring tea in to the cup, the cup overflows but he still keeps pouring. Disciple immediately asks him to stop saying the cup is full master.
Master says "exactly, your cup is full too, I can't teach you. You have to empty the cup to learn anything new".
You can't think positive till your mind has a space. It is filled with past experiences, observations, emotions.
Till you silence your mind I.e. empty your cup, nothing positive is going to go inside it.
The first step is to let go of the noise in your head. Take a pause, don't do anything, just breath.
God has given all the buttons record, play, rewind, forward, pause.
We use record and play the most. The play button is always ON, not knowing what is playing.
Use the pause button, silence your mind.
Let go of the chaos, fight, struggle, just be for sometime. Let the mind settle.
Time for one more story.
Buddha had a hyper active disciple and he wanted to teach him to silence his mind. He send him to take water from the sea while the water was flowing. Disciple saw water has lot of mud in it. He came back to master and said the water has mud in it. After sometime, Buddha send him again. The flow of water had stop, mud had settled down. Disciple came back with pure water for the master and learned to let the mud settle to get pure water.
God has given us life to understand this very thing of letting the dust settle and then only you can discover your purest form.
Beauty of silence is that it brings clarity to your life.
We had a saying in school silent waters run deep. I could only realize the same after I grew up.
There is a thing to notice all famous personalities are silent in some way shape or form.
Anyone seen hyper active sachin tendulkar or rahul dravid?
They became what they are because of the balance they had in their style. People talk about passion, I talk about balance.
Passion is short lived, balance has longevity.
Harshad mehta had passion, warren buffet had balance.
Output of silence is clarity. Output of clarity is balance.
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