How are you feeling? Cozy?

We are all so used to feel the warmth of the cocoons we build around ourselves. Well, we forget that the cocoon is to be broken open one day and we are to emerge out as lovely colorful and bright butterflies, with the ability to fly high!

We hold on to one person and call it as ‘wife’…and another and call it as ‘son’ and a few houses here and there and mark our boundaries and stay inside cozy. Well, this cozy feeling does not last long…since these boundaries are impermanent. The only certainty is ‘uncertainty’. Feeling secure may be a good feeling, but deep down we are also aware that, any time insecurity may hit us. So, why still try to strengthen this feeling?

To be open is a great quality for any kind of growth, be it in the inner world or the outer world. Let’s try this simple example: let’s try to catch the flowing river in our hands…it is impossible. We need to just keep our hands open in the water; the river happily flows her way. Same way with our lives too. We just need to be like a hollow bamboo flute, for the Existence or the Divine can flow in and have her tunes emerging out through us!

What we often do is cling on to the identities to such a large extent and work so hard, day in and day out to protect it! (further reading) This identity, sadly is dull, dead and dry. These may look like shocking words, but if we look deeply, this is the truth; for we are something much much more than this tiny identity that we have woven for ourselves.

Let’s break open to fly out with radiating colours. Seeing us in this blissful flight, many others may take off from their cocoons too, Watch out!

Drop the load and be free

It feels challenging to carry on our backs a huge boulder and struggle to take a few steps forward, isn’t it? This is the same case when a person shoulders the past memories, incidents in his system and trotters his way. It’s so simple, just drop the boulder of the past and walk freely…may be even fly then.

There is a catch here. Yes, you guessed it right. The boulder has not been placed by anyone else, except we ourselves. Since, the culprit is us, why not speak to ourselves and ward off this burden we are carrying throughout? Let’s have a deeper look at this issue.

In certain tribal villages, the hunters use a technique to catch the parrots. A stick is tied to 2 tree barks using a rope at either ends. The stick hangs loosely as its ends are tied to threads. Our friend, the parrot comes and sits on the stick and becomes topsy-turvy. Now, it panics what to do. It feels it will fall and die if it lets go of the stick, only not realizing that it can fly when left loose.

The parrot holds tighter onto the stick and waits for the hunter to have his take-away for his meal!

The parrot is us and the hunter is the Lord of death, Yama. We are afraid to let go of our past conditionings and memories, fearing we may fall and die. Only, when we let go, can we see the grandeur of the power to fly untouched. We literally wait for the Lord of death to come near us, at which time, we have to let go, but would have spent all our life in holding on to our conditionings tighter and tighter.

Let’s drop it and fly free to see the world and life differently.