Saturday, March 21, 2009

Faith

Do we shed away our faith as we grow older and learn from life.On what do we have faith in the first place.Is faith a pseudo-belief we keep hanging on,as things go bad.Is it a step towards fool's paradise...Sometimes things are really bad and no amount of faith can actually make you feel better.But faith "says" things can become better.

But even to try anything new in life we need to have faith.Even the society works on faith.We have faith that the law can protect us.We have faith in the educational system.We have faith in the people who hire us.We have faith in our friends that they will support us,no matter what happens.
I guess I have faith only on life itself.Somehow I feel life has its own purpose.It has its own needs.

Like how a flower blossoms..spreading its perfume without any concern ,for anyone.There may be no one to appreciate the beauty,no one to enjoy the beautiful fragrance,no one to hold it with joy...it blooms..withers..blooms again..
Even if we don't have faith ...we fulfill the purpose.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Beyond the mind

Is it possible to go beyond the mind?
Its a very difficult to imagine how we can go beyond the mind,if mind is the device which records where we are.
Is it a metaphor for ignoring our mind?
So if enlightenment occurs does our mind record the fact that we are enlightened.Looking at the people who claim to be enlightened,most of them remember their spiritual awakening.
What if enlightenment is also an illusion.
May be the day I start believing that,I may stop writing this blog.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Powerless

The feeling of powerless-ness is the most miserable feeling we can feel in our lives.It is the price we pay of being human.But we as part of humanity are powerless over lot of the circumstances.Political/economic scenarios,wars etc..can cause us much grief even though we are not involved.

Once we realize powerlessness,we also learn how to surrender.Everyday we surrender our lives to lot of people.We place our trust on the educational system,have faith on the security provided by the nation,have faith on our family...It is very difficult to have faith on something which we are not sure of.
But is it possible to surrender our lives to any higher power???

If any higher power exists,how do we know that it is not an illusion.I guess,that's the problem ,the more philosophical/spiritual we become,everything starts looking perfect and we don't question them.The drawback is everything starts looking spiritual.There is nothing wrong in connecting spirituality to everything..But the amount of energy which is used to introspect and analyze drives us crazy.I try to see it as a war between common sense and fanaticism.Even though surrender is very important to start learning any technique,the obsession with it leads us in the wrong way.I guess the middle way is the best.

Friday, March 06, 2009

Faith

Do we shed away our faith as we grow older and learn from life.On what do we have faith in the first place.Is faith a pseudo-belief we keep hanging on,as things go bad.Is it a step towards fool's paradise...Sometimes things are really bad and no amount of faith can actually make you feel better.But faith "says" things can become better.

But even to try anything new in life we need to have faith.Even the society works on faith.We have faith that the law can protect us.We have faith in the educational system.We have faith in the people who hire us.We have faith in our friends that they will support us,no matter what happens.
I guess I have faith only on life itself.Somehow I feel life has its own purpose.It has its own needs.

Like how a flower blossoms..spreading its perfume without any concern ,for anyone.There may be no one to appreciate the beauty,no one to enjoy the beautiful fragrance,no one to hold it with joy...it blooms..withers..blooms again..
Even if we don't have faith ...we fulfill the purpose.

Courage

It takes a lot of courage to travel the path which is unfamiliar...
To reach the promised state ,where we dont compromise our principles,our beliefs and our lives is painful.The more you try to align your life towards where you want to go,the more obstacles we face chasing it.When we try our level best and then give up...we reach our goal...But the feeling we have when we achieved the goal has changed completely.The struggle, has made us wise to see through the chase.One of the things which I have started noticing recently is the drive I have behind achieving any goal.The higher the drive,the more I struggle against the odds.Drive should not be confused with hardwork/patience.Drive is a restless desire which makes us blind.We cannot associate good or bad adjectives to it..Its just there ..and it has to be burnt the hard way.
To chase and to walk the unknown path...is the only solution..and being courageous enough to give up at the right time is the only wisdom...