Guest guest Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Living within your boundary - By PARAMAHAMSA SRI NITHYANANDA When you drop the idea of having more and more and start living in the present moment, you start living inside your boundary. What do I mean by start living inside your boundary? One thing is for sure: if you are here, your mind is not here. Your mind never stays where your body stays. This is the life style of asking for more and more. You run, run and run, without even knowing what you are running for. It is a rat race. In a rat race, even if you win, you are still a rat! When you run with all your energy, you forget to enjoy; you forget to live. The other life style, where you live inside your boundary, where you live in the present moment, creates a new mental setup. You start to live more intensely, with awareness, what Buddhists call Zen, Mindfulness. Your living is centred on your Being; you feel fulfilled. Life opens a new dimension. You continuously feel dissatisfied because you are threatened by your desires. Just observe carefully: the moment a desire arises, there is a deep uneasiness in you. If the desire is fulfilled, you start worrying about whether you will get to experience the same joy again or not. Also, you often experience guilt on fulfilment of a desire. On the other hand, if your desire is not fulfilled, there is a hangover, a deep craving to fulfil the desire. Both ways, there is no fulfilment. This is how we waste our whole life. We plan to enjoy but never enjoy; we never experience fulfilment. If the quality of the mind is such, what is the use of getting a weekend to enjoy our vacation? We will be in a different place but we will be carrying the same mind with us there also! When you postpone enjoyment, when you postpone living in the present, when you constantly hope to live in the future, the habit of postponement soon becomes a mental attitude. Work to increase not the height of the bed, but the depth of your sleep. As to what happens to us in life, we may have little or no choice. But as to how we deal with it, we have total choice. Live life in the present, in order to live it to the fullest. Enjoy things now. Be Blissful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 Dear Friends, In my teens I remeber that my dad often used to tell me despite my innate feelings and wish to think for future " and live in dream " for the sake of future.But then as the maturity grows no doubt what Mahrishi convyed has significance and meaning in every one's life.we like or not the progress of life is gradual and the understanding of ethos of life need maturity to understand it's vas implication.we can't certainly " compromise " and make the deals only with reference to the present.challenges of life have to be accepted and one has to have stratagies and then as we turn " grey " we may prepare ourselves to contend and accept life realities.Mahrishi Nityanand ji can never be misunderstood.It is only ourselves who need to be found faulted and recieve fruits of life.Philosophy is entirely adifferent cup of tea. vrkrishnan --- On Sat, 9/6/08, gsreejith02 <gsreejith02 wrote: gsreejith02 <gsreejith02 Living in the present moment Saturday, September 6, 2008, 6:57 AM Living within your boundary - By PARAMAHAMSA SRI NITHYANANDA When you drop the idea of having more and more and start living in the present moment, you start living inside your boundary. What do I mean by start living inside your boundary? One thing is for sure: if you are here, your mind is not here. Your mind never stays where your body stays. This is the life style of asking for more and more. You run, run and run, without even knowing what you are running for. It is a rat race. In a rat race, even if you win, you are still a rat! When you run with all your energy, you forget to enjoy; you forget to live. The other life style, where you live inside your boundary, where you live in the present moment, creates a new mental setup. You start to live more intensely, with awareness, what Buddhists call Zen, Mindfulness. Your living is centred on your Being; you feel fulfilled. Life opens a new dimension. You continuously feel dissatisfied because you are threatened by your desires. Just observe carefully: the moment a desire arises, there is a deep uneasiness in you. If the desire is fulfilled, you start worrying about whether you will get to experience the same joy again or not. Also, you often experience guilt on fulfilment of a desire. On the other hand, if your desire is not fulfilled, there is a hangover, a deep craving to fulfil the desire. Both ways, there is no fulfilment. This is how we waste our whole life. We plan to enjoy but never enjoy; we never experience fulfilment. If the quality of the mind is such, what is the use of getting a weekend to enjoy our vacation? We will be in a different place but we will be carrying the same mind with us there also! When you postpone enjoyment, when you postpone living in the present, when you constantly hope to live in the future, the habit of postponement soon becomes a mental attitude. Work to increase not the height of the bed, but the depth of your sleep. As to what happens to us in life, we may have little or no choice. But as to how we deal with it, we have total choice. Live life in the present, in order to live it to the fullest. Enjoy things now. Be Blissful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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