Have we ever thought of the millions of conditions that make up this moment?. I think most of us would not have even thought about it that way. This moment you are reading this blog in a computer screen or a mobile phone. What makes you read this blog article?. Your orientation towards spirituality, the fact that you possess a computer or a mobile phone, you are free from seeing difficulties, you decided just now to read it , internet is working , I wrote the article, reading it gives you something to think about, so many so many conditions that came just right in this very moment you are reading it. It is so mind boggling to imagine how many things transpired for this moment to become this moment as you are experiencing now. So many conditions are out of your control . Some conditions are in your control seemingly which when truly analysed may not be . Each moment unfolds in front of us through so many conditions in the universe. How much of us realize this?. We never care about all those unfolding, its brilliance, its coincidences , its mysteries.
Instead of appreciating the complexities of this moment as an unfolding of so many conditions we expect things to happen in our own way. If only that person was a little different. If only i could go there now. Remember for that to happen so many conditions need to be met with. For that small changes, so many conditions need to come correct. That person whom you expect to behave differently should be thinking of what you want him to think, he should act according to that , and so on. So in short, things are as they are because of the multitude of conditions that have been met with. It can be never different than what it is now. Instead of expecting something come to see the things as they are and cultivate the habit of appreciating it in its full glory. Whatever is right now is a mystery. It cannot be any different. Appreciate it to its full extent.
I want to relate a story here. Once there was a king who was very fond of paintings. He asked the painters of the country to paint pictures. There were so many paintings which were serene, beautiful and would have fetched fortunes. But the king was not satisfied. He asked his ministers. Are there more painters who are more talented than these?. I want to see it . Then somebody said there is a farmer who is an amateur painter and can paint . Then the soldiers brought him to the contest. The farmer painted a picture in secrecy and when it was ready invited the king. When the king unveiled the painting it was a picture of a torrential water fall. It was a very violent stream of water coming over and splashing on the ground and creating a big scene. When the king saw it , he was not so impressed. He said what is the meaning of all these?. Then the painter asked him to come closer and see. In the waterfall there was a small gap and a small place where it was not having any stream of water in a rock. In that small place a bird had constructed a nest and there were baby birds in the nest. The bird was feeding the baby birds, and they were all peaceful. So even amongst the torrential waterfall there was peace and serenity and harmony in nature. This opened the eyes of the king and he awarded this to be the best painting. Peace is not something that is imagined and different. It is there in the torrential waterfall also. The nest is your true self which is always in the present moment which is unhurt by all the torrent of water over it . The bird never wished that the torrent of water was not there. It accepted and still could find the nest,
What happens when we allow ourselves to be associated with this moment is that we accept the whole as part of us without rejecting anything. This automatically creates compassion towards everything. Our spiritual heart extends to everything without any reservations. The things could be only this way. They can never be anything else. When you have this contented feeling you can never have any desires. Desires are always offspring of a lack in us. When we don't have a feeling of lack, there is no scope for any better situation. If a good situation comes it is good, otherwise it is still ok.
Instead of desiring our mind expands towards everything, it fills with love, appreciation and serenity.
When you see a river, have you wondered how it is formed. It all starts from a tiny portion of a mountain where rain falls. Tiny streams from many such small sources combine to form streamlets, which combine to form small tributaries . This combine when they reach the valley into a small river. A river is a big story unfolding . Just like that each moment in front of us is a culmination of so many events in this universe. We should learn to see how it is formed .
How do we come about this state of acceptance. By expanding our awareness. In meditation we should learn to see what all things are arising in us. What all things comprise our universe, we need to expand our awareness into all of those happenings. By being receptive towards all of the happenings in us, learning how we react, learning our notions we would expand our awareness. The less knowledgeable we are , the more constricted our mind is and hence our likes and dislikes. It is the ignorance about us, ignorance of the grandeur of the universe that creates expectations and desires in us. When our awareness expands to come to grip with our inner world, our mind expands into the space of the moment and accepts it as the nest in the waterfall, never worrying about the torrential waters.
Instead of appreciating the complexities of this moment as an unfolding of so many conditions we expect things to happen in our own way. If only that person was a little different. If only i could go there now. Remember for that to happen so many conditions need to be met with. For that small changes, so many conditions need to come correct. That person whom you expect to behave differently should be thinking of what you want him to think, he should act according to that , and so on. So in short, things are as they are because of the multitude of conditions that have been met with. It can be never different than what it is now. Instead of expecting something come to see the things as they are and cultivate the habit of appreciating it in its full glory. Whatever is right now is a mystery. It cannot be any different. Appreciate it to its full extent.
I want to relate a story here. Once there was a king who was very fond of paintings. He asked the painters of the country to paint pictures. There were so many paintings which were serene, beautiful and would have fetched fortunes. But the king was not satisfied. He asked his ministers. Are there more painters who are more talented than these?. I want to see it . Then somebody said there is a farmer who is an amateur painter and can paint . Then the soldiers brought him to the contest. The farmer painted a picture in secrecy and when it was ready invited the king. When the king unveiled the painting it was a picture of a torrential water fall. It was a very violent stream of water coming over and splashing on the ground and creating a big scene. When the king saw it , he was not so impressed. He said what is the meaning of all these?. Then the painter asked him to come closer and see. In the waterfall there was a small gap and a small place where it was not having any stream of water in a rock. In that small place a bird had constructed a nest and there were baby birds in the nest. The bird was feeding the baby birds, and they were all peaceful. So even amongst the torrential waterfall there was peace and serenity and harmony in nature. This opened the eyes of the king and he awarded this to be the best painting. Peace is not something that is imagined and different. It is there in the torrential waterfall also. The nest is your true self which is always in the present moment which is unhurt by all the torrent of water over it . The bird never wished that the torrent of water was not there. It accepted and still could find the nest,
What happens when we allow ourselves to be associated with this moment is that we accept the whole as part of us without rejecting anything. This automatically creates compassion towards everything. Our spiritual heart extends to everything without any reservations. The things could be only this way. They can never be anything else. When you have this contented feeling you can never have any desires. Desires are always offspring of a lack in us. When we don't have a feeling of lack, there is no scope for any better situation. If a good situation comes it is good, otherwise it is still ok.
Instead of desiring our mind expands towards everything, it fills with love, appreciation and serenity.
When you see a river, have you wondered how it is formed. It all starts from a tiny portion of a mountain where rain falls. Tiny streams from many such small sources combine to form streamlets, which combine to form small tributaries . This combine when they reach the valley into a small river. A river is a big story unfolding . Just like that each moment in front of us is a culmination of so many events in this universe. We should learn to see how it is formed .
How do we come about this state of acceptance. By expanding our awareness. In meditation we should learn to see what all things are arising in us. What all things comprise our universe, we need to expand our awareness into all of those happenings. By being receptive towards all of the happenings in us, learning how we react, learning our notions we would expand our awareness. The less knowledgeable we are , the more constricted our mind is and hence our likes and dislikes. It is the ignorance about us, ignorance of the grandeur of the universe that creates expectations and desires in us. When our awareness expands to come to grip with our inner world, our mind expands into the space of the moment and accepts it as the nest in the waterfall, never worrying about the torrential waters.
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