In the End

Just read someone’s blog, and drew on my fake repository of ‘faith’ and ‘energy’ to write this down.

I call it a fake repository, because nothing is actually there. No energy enthusiasm is there until my minds 'makes' it up - give it the direction u see

Lol

I was seeing thus:
In the end (death) nothing remains, if there is nothing in the process ‘now’, if you are knowing now and giving way to old habit patterns to come and go silently, weakening the defilements of the mind each time I don’t indulge greed, pain or passion

Today for a few minutes my mind was distracted, I saw how defilements had become my state of mind. I looked at these thoughts and felt very strange, this strong defilement - eh this is not 'me' :) eh? and let it fizzle and pass by, back to peace and clarity and further path

Looking back, how far I have come! From a mind that was constantly in turmoil, to this mind, that ‘feels’ it, if a defilement arises

A no mind is no fear-even in the end, there is nothing to cling or fear

Older Versions of 'Peace'

So Truth is nature, nature is manifested, yet what is obvious escapes us blah blah


What I would like to share is that we understand the same stuff in greater depth when we actually sit still for elongated time, piercing the shooting pain in the knees and tie down the thought rider-the mind

This one is about peace, what I thought then and Now

Peace I thought was 'calmness', I now understand it as 'detachment'
Peace I thought was 'happiness', I now understand it as 'wisdom'
Peace I understood as a wholesome 'quality', I know understand it as an 'Outcome'

Not in Things

When mind settles in
settles in and of itself

Overlooking things
from above

Gratitude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=158AWXhDdZI&feature=related

For Bruce

Dance is the mystic,
or is mystic the dance?

Wonder and wish ...
but dont think enlightenment is by chance!

Sing a song, if the song takes you there,
song becomes a song, when the 'self' is not there!



The mystic of now, the mystics of lore
mystic of future ...mystics from before

Not knowing each other ...
they knew the same thing!

For the one gone forth (Bruce, my friend)
the heart does sing :)


Bruce lives in North Carolina, a dear friend. Today I was inspired to write something down and somehow, I wanted to dedicate it to a friend I havent met in my life.

One of the traits you will notice while developing metta is that you will feel outbursts of joys, even for strangers, new people, people you havent met...I havent met Bruce. But I have read about this fellow traveller.

Popular Metta Expression in English and Pali (for directing thoughts)

This is what should be done
By one who is skilled in goodness,
And who knows the path of peace:
... Wishing: In gladness and in safety,
May all beings be at ease.
Karaṇīyam-
atthakusalena yaṃ
taṃ santaṃ padaṃ abhisamecca
... Sukhino vā khemino hontu
sabbe sattā bhavantu sukhitattā


Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty,
medium, short or small,
Ye keci pāṇa bhūtatthi
tasā vā thāvarā vā anavasesā
Dīghā vā ye mahantā vā
majjhamā rassakāṇukathūlā


The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born —
May all beings be at ease!
Diṭṭhā vā yeva addiṭṭhā
ye ca dūre vasanti avidūre
Bhūtā vā sambhavesī vā
sabbe sattā bhavantu sukhitattā


Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Na paro paraṃ nikubbetha
nātimaññetha katthaci naṃ kañci
Byārosanā paṭighasaññā
nāññamaññassa dukkhamiccheyya

Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
Mātā yathā niyaṃ puttaṃ āyusā
ekaputtamanurakkhe
Evampi sabbabhūtesū
mānasaṃ bhāvaye aparimānaṃ


Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Mettaṃ ca sabbalokasmiṃ
mānasaṃ bhāvaye aparimānaṃ
Uddhaṃ adho ca tiriyañca
asambādhaṃ
averaṃ asapattaṃ


Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down
Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.
This is said to be the sublime abiding....[40]
Tiṭṭhaṃ caraṃ nisinno vā sayāno
vā yāvatassa vigatamiddho
Etaṃ satiṃ adhiṭṭheyya
brahmametaṃ vihāraṃ idhamāhu....[41]

Inhaling Wisdom

I had one of those Duh! moments. Superficially I might smile about it, but internally speaking I am still feeling like I am one step away from safety, walking on a tight rope. Thats probably why I am writing this -keep it to the fore, not to trample this beautiful insight or 'thought' with other mundane realizations.

Benefits and motive of meditations is a usual theme, mind trying to justify and be on track.

With meditative detachment and goodness it is easy to win friends, take over and turn around loss making projects, and stupid manuscripts. Its good to learn to mediate when you are young, so that instead of retaining regrets with growing experiences, you actually use this experience, the time you have (you seem to have ample of it when you are young) to refine your fortitude and morality ... and similar stuff. Then

Duh!

Meditation is actually meant for something larger. Look at the monk, letting go, letting go each moment. S/he is using each moment as s/he progresses towards death in not assimilation (of material things, beautiful wife, brilliant kids), but in letting go.
How stupid will it be, to learn meditation and still be bent on accumulation?