July 7, 2016
Good Evening!
This is not a poem or a tale or anything. Just a thought which I thought I could write about. What I write is heavily influenced by what I read (I know that's true for everyone) but then influenced to that extent that I can't distinguish between the original thread and my perspective on it. I am writing about life and I know everyone has got something to say about it. No way I am a philosophical person. Sure, I can give pseudo intellectual lectures to others but when it comes to something deep,I don't know. I believe none of us can say/write something about life which we can generalise because what we call life, we all experience it differently. We have different criteria to assess our lives. We make different choices which are influenced by different contexts. We all experience emotions differently and intensity varies. Still there are many things which are applicable to all of us irrespective of any differences we have. that's what the religions all over the world show us. Religions , I said. Not people who interpret and teach us their interpretations. This is because, though we might all be different in thousand ways, the essence in us is the same. We are not what we appear to be. There is something beyond our physical and mental set up. There we all stand in the same platform. Stripped of our ego, we see the true self.
Bhagavad Gita shares an interesting thought on this. People think when we do not express our anger or any other negative feeling and suppress it for some reasons, we are being hypocrites. Meaning, only when we express what we feel we are genuine. Krishna says , it is actually the other way round. it is when we express our negativity we are being hypocrites. Because that is not the real us. Real us in our truest form is pure and untouched by any of these. So, when we express our anger for example, we are not being ourselves and that he says is hypocrisy.
Complicating our life is the first step in wasting this life which is short as we say always. People say having options is always good. We do not get confined to something when we have choices. But when we really look into it, we see that the choices are there because we always have this like-dislike continuum.Either we like something or we don't like something. When we are too attached to this liking-disliking we create choices for us. We are confused when we have choices and many times when there are no choices we feel suffocated and limited. And we complicate life. As simple as that. I read this when I was reading something in Buddhism and it made so much sense that I immediately started analysing everything in my life using this. In most of the cases, I found that it is not the situation as such which makes me stressed but my likes and dislikes which shape my response to it. People may ask, it is a short life , isn't it good to have choices then? My friend,that exactly is my point too. Such a short life and you want to waste it by deciding what you like and dislike all the time? I do not advocate not doing things which you like or doing things which you dislike but loosening this string attached to everything makes life lot more different, light and stress free. It starts with a simple thing like not liking/disliking a dish or not liking/disliking a household chore. Seriously! try staying neutral without getting swayed by your like and dislike morons! :P
This is not a poem or a tale or anything. Just a thought which I thought I could write about. What I write is heavily influenced by what I read (I know that's true for everyone) but then influenced to that extent that I can't distinguish between the original thread and my perspective on it. I am writing about life and I know everyone has got something to say about it. No way I am a philosophical person. Sure, I can give pseudo intellectual lectures to others but when it comes to something deep,I don't know. I believe none of us can say/write something about life which we can generalise because what we call life, we all experience it differently. We have different criteria to assess our lives. We make different choices which are influenced by different contexts. We all experience emotions differently and intensity varies. Still there are many things which are applicable to all of us irrespective of any differences we have. that's what the religions all over the world show us. Religions , I said. Not people who interpret and teach us their interpretations. This is because, though we might all be different in thousand ways, the essence in us is the same. We are not what we appear to be. There is something beyond our physical and mental set up. There we all stand in the same platform. Stripped of our ego, we see the true self.
Bhagavad Gita shares an interesting thought on this. People think when we do not express our anger or any other negative feeling and suppress it for some reasons, we are being hypocrites. Meaning, only when we express what we feel we are genuine. Krishna says , it is actually the other way round. it is when we express our negativity we are being hypocrites. Because that is not the real us. Real us in our truest form is pure and untouched by any of these. So, when we express our anger for example, we are not being ourselves and that he says is hypocrisy.
Complicating our life is the first step in wasting this life which is short as we say always. People say having options is always good. We do not get confined to something when we have choices. But when we really look into it, we see that the choices are there because we always have this like-dislike continuum.Either we like something or we don't like something. When we are too attached to this liking-disliking we create choices for us. We are confused when we have choices and many times when there are no choices we feel suffocated and limited. And we complicate life. As simple as that. I read this when I was reading something in Buddhism and it made so much sense that I immediately started analysing everything in my life using this. In most of the cases, I found that it is not the situation as such which makes me stressed but my likes and dislikes which shape my response to it. People may ask, it is a short life , isn't it good to have choices then? My friend,that exactly is my point too. Such a short life and you want to waste it by deciding what you like and dislike all the time? I do not advocate not doing things which you like or doing things which you dislike but loosening this string attached to everything makes life lot more different, light and stress free. It starts with a simple thing like not liking/disliking a dish or not liking/disliking a household chore. Seriously! try staying neutral without getting swayed by your like and dislike morons! :P
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