Showing posts with label cleanliness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cleanliness. Show all posts
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Monday, 26 February 2018
Observers
There are people who, for some reason, do
not trust or have faith in most people. They are suspicious. What happens then
is that they close their mind and heart to even good advice because they don't
trust.
Observers can see many more traits clearly
than the person who is experiencing negativity. They are heavily into the
denial mode. The tragedy is that they also get distanced from people, sometimes
from people they have been close to. Their vision gets clouded and they can't
discriminate the sincere from the insincere.
The bottom line being that we are
responsible for our lives, we need to pull up our socks, however impossible it
may seem to do so during that low phase. There are all kinds of solutions available
and possible if we don't start obsessively harping on just that one which is
not a working solution. We just need to trust that things will get better if we
know how to make them better and keep trying until they do.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Thursday, 1 February 2018
Melancholy
Melancholy and loneliness are eternal
partners. The former tends to alienate you from others because no one wants an
extra share. Most of the people I know have that area within that they battle
with. But melancholy people cannot be jolly and laughing either. So, they stand
alone. From this situation arises a void, loneliness. Your heart may go out to
them but their company can be exhausting.
Such is the situation in families and
society today. That tolerance is unavailable. Any amount of mental illnesses is
available for the asking.
Circumstantially, if life
pushes you into isolation, options can still be found. Either you can get lost
in your feeling lonely and unwanted or you can concentrate on learning and
creating a new life. Melancholy and depression are hardly ways to live a
beautiful if tough life. Giving in and giving up need to be replaced by "I
can and I will".
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Monday, 17 July 2017
Transformation
Right from the time of birth, we are
changing constantly. As children, we listen to parents. When we become a little
older, going to school is the first big adjustment. Freedom comes along.
Exposure comes along. And with every influence, within the family first and
later, the outside influence, changes a human being constantly. There are
paradigm shifts in belief systems, styles of living etc.
A fusion of many types of cultures,
thinking patterns sometimes confuse, sometimes help in clearing the mind.
In this process, some become better and
evolved while some become bitter and disillusioned with life.
Belief systems, unless we have an open
mind, tend to make for a certain rigidity which can become our worst enemy,
like stagnant water which breeds diseases. Rigid belief systems are often like
a disease. They block out the light of each new day.
The catch word is "change",
whether the ability or the inability to do so. On this depends the
transformation into betterment or bitterness.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Tuesday, 13 June 2017
Sunday, 7 May 2017
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Form of dharma
When we speak of dharma, we generally get a mixed bag definition:
rituals, duties, religion etc. And the result is confusion. Because dharma is
not any one of these. If anything divides human beings, it absolutely cannot be
dharma.
The core of dharma in its true sense lies in each one of us.
HONESTY: we might get cynical here because we see very
little honesty today. And yet, it is our core because, when thinking about it,
who can accept and actually like dishonesty? Which means honesty IS our core.
WORK/ ACTIVITY: Movement and change are two constants.
Activity is our second core. We need to give it direction but all humans have
act ..that is, keep moving . It is inevitable.
CLEANLINESS: an inevitable measure of dharma. To clean not
only the body but the thoughts, the mind and emotions, ego as well as our
environment.
KINDNESS: to care selflessly. Help people in need without
wanting to be on page 3. On human, compassionate grounds.
Irrespective of your religion, any other identities you
might have, all the four points mentioned constitute your inner core as a human
being. And if all of us started understanding and practicing this form of
dharma, there would come a time when all humans of whichever religion, caste,
creed would happily and harmoniously share space, love and peaceful progress.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Monday, 30 January 2017
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Monday, 26 September 2016
Thursday, 4 August 2016
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Realize
is amazing to actually draw parallels between
our external and inner worlds. Whenever things are confused outside, I can see
that there is some confusion inside as well. You will also realize this.
Haven't you noticed that some days you just get up feeling heavy and the whole
day goes wrong...nothing goes right.
Old memories get triggered, because of some negativity in the subconscious mind and of course, this manifests outside. The day you are not well, you tend to avoid the world around you because there would surely be conflicts.
These memories are what we need to cleanse
through meditation, introspection and transformation.
Surekha
Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Friday, 10 June 2016
Spiritual
There
are many types of people in this world. And that is why life is so interesting
and inspiring. Some become role models because they have qualities worth
emulating. We look up to them and they inspire us. Some make us wonder what
makes them tick and we don't necessarily want to emulate them.
However,
we do understand that there is something good in everyone. Distortions are a
part of each one of us. Life's purpose is to get over them and feel clean. To
cleanse and to purify our thoughts.
Spiritual is who we are when the distortions are cleared.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 24 April 2016
Monday, 11 April 2016
Sunday, 10 April 2016
The important three C's.....
The important three C's.....
Cleanliness, Compassion and Commitment.
Amazing that cleanliness outside means we are
clean inside. That's why clutter in homes is indicative of cluttered minds.
Compassion
reaches out to others only when it understands and mirrors compassion for the
self. Forgiveness, therefore, comes easier to compassionate people.
Commitment is a huge one. I have seen way too
many people not fulfilling their commitments or going back on the spoken word. This
is somewhere deep down an indication of a lack of commitment to the self. This
is hard to measure in terms of worldly acquisitions. You might be committed to
acquiring wealth, for example. But you may not be committed to the means of
acquiring it. You may not value your own promises. Or maybe, temporary commitment is done only
for personal gains and withdrawn later. Who knows?
There are many layers shrouding truth and reality.
There is never a
better time than now to start removing them even if it is painful to do so.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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