We have heard a
thousand times that things of the world
are transitory but even then I would pose a question:
What is wrong with that? That is the way nature is made.
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DO WE COME OUT OF IT? The first thing I always say is to believe it’s
not that serious. When it reaches the stage of sickness or disease, at that
point it may be difficult to come out of it. For them there may be further
treatments or therapies. But if we are not yet to this stage, let’s not be
serious over side issues—whether it is attachment or greed or whatever. What
is attachment? You got too serious about a relationship. Greed is
seriousness about money or anything more than you need. Unnecessary
seriousness includes body identification. The body needs care and health for
living but how much? Since the body is transitory and will not be with you
permanently, why to be so serious about it? Just keep your body healthy, use
it and live. If we live in this way, body identification will not bring
sadness and sorrow when we depart from this world. By avoiding such
unfounded seriousness, our consciousness gets released. |
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GET STUCK WITH MONEY OR POSITION or body identification or
relationships and that is where problems start: life becomes stagnant. In
balanced life, harmonious life, you are paying attention and you are loving
but you are also releasing your consciousness. It’s not that everyone is
stuck in only one thing; mostly we are stuck in more than one. This is not
because life is problematic but because you have made it stagnant. When you
get serious about something on and on, on and on for months and years, you
are making it a sore spot in your life’s fabric and that’s bound to smart.
Now it is painful every time you see or touch that thing. Every time you
sleep or sit in silence or talk in private, that painful episode or feeling
will come up. What you do not want gets magnified and stands out glaringly
before you and remains more alive than your happy moments. If you hate
someone, for example, the very thought of that person brings you pain, and
this remembrance is sometimes more intense than remembering someone you
love. If you are trying to avoid something but are still remembering it, you
are keeping it alive. |