I asked my friend, ‘hey, why don’t you come for a weekend meditation class next weekend (ASP) http://www.dhyanapeetam.org/asp.asp?’ She replies, ‘oh, you know, I’ve got to finish some important pending work at office on Saturday and on Sunday, my husband’s friends are coming home for lunch’
Well, I shrugged and left the conversation. This is just one example quoted here. Different people have their own stream of reasons coming up as top priorities when called to attend a meditation class which is life transforming.
The truth is no one wants to change. We are cozy in our self-woven cocoons and like to stay there without opening up, only but to emerge out with flying colors. We love our old mental set-ups and find it uncomforting when our conceptions are shaken or disturbed.
One story comes to my mind here. Nithyananda in one of his discourses quotes this incident.
A housewife is busy taking care of her child. She’s running to the kitchen to get the baby some milk, meanwhile she goes outside to fetch the clothes. She has somehow kept herself busy without a moment’s pause!
One afternoon, the door-bell rings suddenly. She, holding her baby in one hand manages to open the window and asks on, as to who it was. After being requested, reluctantly she opens the door slightly to find 3 Buddhist monks at the doorstep. Not having the patience to even call them inside, the lady was about to slam the door back at them.
The monks very calmly ask her, ‘Ma, do you want to learn meditation, we can teach you. It will surely do you good, it can transform the way in which you are living; you can live a better life with awareness and understanding and…’
They were still continuing; when the lady interrupted with a disturbed look, ‘Sirs, I don’t want to change, I’m very comfortable the way I’m living. Please don’t teach me any meditation or anything, I wish to be this way only. Now, please without wasting my time, will you leave?’
This happens with majority of us. We like to be closed without giving a moment’s thought that only when the door is open can the breeze come in. The more resistant we are to the truths when presented before us, more is the chance of being in darkness and ignorance. Later on only we may realize the futility of this stubbornness.
Let’s open up to the Divine, let’s be patient and give a chance and see what this energy has got to teach us.
Open the door….let the breeze in! http://www.amazon.com/Open-door-let-breeze-Nithyananda/dp/8190243713/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4/102-9740034-9110540?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192026946&sr=8-4 is one such book that is compiled from talks given by Nithyananda to audiences in India and abroad. This book is a series of thought-provoking articles that focus on the science of inner transformation in contemporary society. Each of us find it rather hard to accept or take-in any Truth, if presented as a simple thing. Here’s a book, simple to its words; but deep in impact.
Let’s break open the shell to witness a world unseen before, with awareness and clarity.
Well, I shrugged and left the conversation. This is just one example quoted here. Different people have their own stream of reasons coming up as top priorities when called to attend a meditation class which is life transforming.
The truth is no one wants to change. We are cozy in our self-woven cocoons and like to stay there without opening up, only but to emerge out with flying colors. We love our old mental set-ups and find it uncomforting when our conceptions are shaken or disturbed.
One story comes to my mind here. Nithyananda in one of his discourses quotes this incident.
A housewife is busy taking care of her child. She’s running to the kitchen to get the baby some milk, meanwhile she goes outside to fetch the clothes. She has somehow kept herself busy without a moment’s pause!
One afternoon, the door-bell rings suddenly. She, holding her baby in one hand manages to open the window and asks on, as to who it was. After being requested, reluctantly she opens the door slightly to find 3 Buddhist monks at the doorstep. Not having the patience to even call them inside, the lady was about to slam the door back at them.
The monks very calmly ask her, ‘Ma, do you want to learn meditation, we can teach you. It will surely do you good, it can transform the way in which you are living; you can live a better life with awareness and understanding and…’
They were still continuing; when the lady interrupted with a disturbed look, ‘Sirs, I don’t want to change, I’m very comfortable the way I’m living. Please don’t teach me any meditation or anything, I wish to be this way only. Now, please without wasting my time, will you leave?’
This happens with majority of us. We like to be closed without giving a moment’s thought that only when the door is open can the breeze come in. The more resistant we are to the truths when presented before us, more is the chance of being in darkness and ignorance. Later on only we may realize the futility of this stubbornness.
Let’s open up to the Divine, let’s be patient and give a chance and see what this energy has got to teach us.
Open the door….let the breeze in! http://www.amazon.com/Open-door-let-breeze-Nithyananda/dp/8190243713/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4/102-9740034-9110540?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192026946&sr=8-4 is one such book that is compiled from talks given by Nithyananda to audiences in India and abroad. This book is a series of thought-provoking articles that focus on the science of inner transformation in contemporary society. Each of us find it rather hard to accept or take-in any Truth, if presented as a simple thing. Here’s a book, simple to its words; but deep in impact.
Let’s break open the shell to witness a world unseen before, with awareness and clarity.
3 comments:
hi nithya ,
It's nice and understandable message pa...
no one is not ready for accepting changes in their life cause they are feeling unsafe ...
Hi dear Athmashree... it's really the greatest service to offer people the life transforming techniques... towards the BLISS ! but hungry stomach n unfullfilled mind simply can't open up to DHARMA! & even hungry ness of mind n body simply can never be fullfilled becoz its M A Y A ! playing wid us...
But actually right at what moment the intense urge for T R U T H ! happens widin us...!?! no one can say... but when it happens... master ll appear...
Nithyanandam Ma Atmashree!
Found time to create one more blog! Hmm!? :)
I actually enjoy watching people give excuses for skipping LBPs. Have gone through some this week while informing ppl about LBP in the Bay Area this weekend. Some would say, they have work at office, some say they have to spend time with their family, some say I will tell you tomorrow, few feel awkward just with the thought of spending two holidays doing meditations and the list goes on... But amongst these, when you find even a single person who gets excited to do the workshop, the fun gets doubled! :)
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