When you awaken, you look at your
life and many of your reactions with amusement. Each one of us is enveloped in
a drama of karma and desires. We judge every experience from the way it appears
to us : positive or unpleasant.
If we take away that aspect of
our own feelings about the experience, what is left? Yes! Only the experience.
And without attaching emotions, it is easy to go through it.
Conditioning makes this clinical
observation very difficult. Our attachments with relationships and having been
taught our behavioral patterns very early in life, we grow up with realizations
of what works and what does not, again depend on how WE feel.
Subjective patterns are there to
stay unless we can observe and change them consciously.
What really works ultimately is
inner silence. That gives us more clarity and also prevents self-defeating
thoughts about how others make us feel. Actually, totally unnecessary but
inevitable to mankind most of the time.
The other moot point is that if you are a giver, people get comfortable around you and take what you have to give. But there is no energy exchange and you end up depleting your energies out of love/ attachment or whatever …
Silence is that tool that consolidates your energy levels. It makes you abstain
from expending your energies in the name of compulsions prescribed by families
and societies in the name of “duty”, whose forces are very difficult to resist
by individual energies.
Awareness and consciousness are
the basis of living, I am learning. Bringing your subconscious world into the
conscious one will help create new patterns of living. And I am not saying this
is easy. To break old patterns requires courage to move out of old self-created
molds.
But there it is! Take it or leave
it!
Surekha Kothari
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