Showing posts with label Reality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reality. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Monday, 26 August 2024
Humility
Reality is not perceivable unless
we distance ourselves from our own prejudices and dislikes first. When we
dislike someone, even a good action from them appears a questionable act. And
when we like someone, there is a tendency to become blind and we are unable to
see the wrong they do.
It is always and always OUR mind,
either loving, graceful and clear OR polluted, clouded and partial. Of course, not many of us can, with humility,
acknowledge our perspectives, colored or clear, and find it tough to make the
change to a pure mind. We would rather live in pollution because we don’t WANT
to acknowledge that we may be toxic to ourselves. So, we live within this
energy.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Friday, 19 July 2024
Thursday, 6 July 2023
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Spiritual Realm
Absolute, untainted truth is almost always unacceptable to the average human mind. It is like wearing sunglasses to protect your eyes against the sun. Stark reality is like the blazing sun .
This is why we find sugar coated
living bearable and even motivating. The fear of discovering who we really are
rules our lives. We don’t want to go there. There is an unconscious denial to
turn inwards.
Our comfort levels lie in overt,
sometimes superficial gregariousness, almost to divert our minds from our
intrinsic nature and our inability to isolate ourselves to find ourselves. For,
meditation is nothing but that. To eliminate the thought that works as a veil
between the divine and you. In other words, thoughts become an impediment
because they immediately combine with senses and pollute the mind which,
actually, needs to be purified to make headway into the spiritual realm.
All our lives, we exist like
this, until the end of our lives.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 7 November 2022
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Creation
The ultimate reality is that all creation is one. All humans are therefore, one.
So, are we always going to be working from our ignorance and separating from each other through what appears to be but is an error of perception at best? And not what IS? Because we never focused on what IS!
We are so superficial that we only judge through our habits and cultural differences! So, wearing a certain garb gives an identity to one but is seen as different from what another wears … and merely on such outward appearances, we distance ourselves.
And religion does a lot of this. Little differences become huge and reasons to actually kill because of a complete intolerance of people who APPEAR different.
I wonder why we cannot focus on the inner similarities and find it in our hearts to love each other! Plenty of similarities….
The colour of blood
The body parts and organs
The mind
An intellect
Memories
Breath
Consciousness
Awareness
… and so much else!
So then, why are we so separatist in our thinking?
And we talk about it ad nauseum
But do nothing about it! Just some topic for conversation? And that’s it?
Why? Because each of us is wanting change outside first. Right?
Surekha Kothari
www.BodyMindSoulCentre.com
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog: www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Thursday, 2 December 2021
Thursday, 19 August 2021
Thursday, 15 July 2021
Thursday, 27 May 2021
Monday, 14 December 2020
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Wisdom
When you post some very profound words of
wisdom , people often show a doubt in that , can we really practice all of it ?
True that it takes an awful lot of will, determination and desire to walk that
path. Not to mention a constant awareness. And many , therefore, turn around
and walk back to the path is comfort. The common statement is, “ come on ! I am
not a saint”.
As if the path of wisdom is only meant for
the saints, or, the extraordinary ! And yet, if you read the biographies of the
world famous personalities, some started at the bottom and worked their way up.
This kind of gamut of experiences and learned wisdom to make such a stupendous
success of their lives can be a beacon for those who think they can never
emulate such people successfully.
The real Issue is not that we can’t do it.
It is , that we have slotted ourselves as people with limitations, that of being
“ordinary”. Or just with an established pattern which we kind of like and are
settled into.
Actually, there is wisdom inside all of us
, wherever we are and whatever we do. We just don’t know that we can use it
anytime, in fact, must use it to better our understanding about everything to
graduate to higher vibrational levels as students of life do.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Speakingtree Blog:
www.speakingtree.in/public/surekhakothari
Friday, 22 February 2019
Talent
Conforming is a talent I have not seen much
of. It seems people find it difficult to fall in line as it were. You make a
rule and you can be sure it will be broken more than once. The mind is unable
to remember with consistency. Alternatively, it may not be taken seriously at
all. Amazes me sometimes ! How can one repeat the same mistake again and again
?
In school, we had to conform. In certain
homes, children have to conform. But as adults, we don't think it is necessary
to conform. In short, it spells a lack of respect for any rules made by others.
Too much of individual assertions without understanding the importance of being
able to conform when required. Another yardstick of balance.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 23 September 2018
Philosophies of life
Isn't it amazing, this zest for life and
will to live? Despite lives ending around us and all kinds of ailments plaguing
humanity, we still carry on. Philosophies of life emerge every day. Some
listen. Some listen and practice. Some don't listen. Some don't want to know
and are happy in their world. Seasons come and go. Wrinkles start to show, last
on the face and limbs. Those on the mind are older but when they manifest
outwardly, we begin to take notice.
We are humans. We will regress some,
progress some, cry some, laugh some, and carry on living life with all that we
have, good, bad and indifferent. Who is anyone to say what these mean anyway? Because
they mean so many different things to so many different people that you get
exhausted from trying to fathom and analyze. It's like you roam all over the
world and then finally, come back and rest only in your home.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 20 August 2018
Thursday, 16 August 2018
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