Some night, when you’re tucked away safely in bed, bring to mind a thought that there are no people at all in this world except you. Meditation is the skill in which you learn how to drop the intention and relax. Just being aware of it, it already switches. If your attention is always on the negative, switch it to the positive. If our attention is consistently clinging to negativity, that’s what’s going to grow. When you put your attention on lack, lack will grow. Feeling you have abundance, abundance will grow. Wherever you put your attention, that will grow. Intention, attention, and manifestation go together. If you hold on to the intention, it becomes desire, and desire brings feverishness and heartache. Have an intention and consciously drop it. In the same way, an intention has to be dropped. If you go to temples or where there’s a fountain, they say, “Make a wish and drop it.” You drop the coin in the fountain. Make an intention and leave it to the universe. Whether you want to drink a glass of water, take a walk, or watch TV, first an intention arises in the mind. Everything we do has a desire, and intention, or an unconscious habit attached to it. “Nothing is important” is deep meditation. “Everything is important” is the path of service. Food is important when you’re hungry and unimportant when you’re full. And what’s important and unimportant changes with time and space. Why should you always look for what’s important? Something unimportant can contribute to something that is important. When you say something is important, you limit your vastness.Ī journalist asked me, “Why is it important to breathe? Why is it important to be happy? Why is it important to have peace?” These questions aren’t relevant at all. So that means everything is important, and nothing is important. Things are either themselves important, or they make other things important. It’s important to have unimportant things to make something else important! Too many people are stuck with what is “important.” Why do you always have to do only that which is important? For something to be important, there need to be many things that are unimportant. They want to reach out, but they’re afraid, waiting for somebody else to take the initiative and do it first. So what? In fact, everybody wants to shake hands. If the other person doesn’t shake it, fine. Take a stand and stretch out your hand first. This is what prevents people from coming together and from feeling this sense of belongingness. If everybody thinks, Let the other person come and reach out first, then who will come? Nobody. We don’t mind physical hurt so much as getting hurt mentally and emotionally, a bruised ego. The greatest fear in the world is getting hurt. What happens? You feel embarrassed and hurt. Suppose you want to greet them, but you have one concern: If I put myself out there, and they don’t respond, what will happen to me? Suppose you stretch out your hand, and they don’t shake your hand. Yet you expect the other person to come forward. You’ve shouted at them, or something happened and afterward you expected to patch things up. Stretch out your hand firstĮveryone has had some problem with someone. Resting without thinking about the need for it is more restful. When rest is needed, your body will automatically take it. It’s the quality of rest, even if it’s short, that recuperates you. And there are others who crave a long rest, not knowing that true rest is in nondoership (not getting caught up in your personal role in the actions you take or in the outcome). Some people take pride in just working hard, without any achievement. Thinking you’ve worked hard interferes with the quality of rest. The memory of hard work is more tiring than the work itself. Finding them in each other-activity in rest and rest in activity-is the ultimate freedom. Knowing when to have what and how much to have, is wisdom. Rest and activityĪctivity and rest are two vital aspects of life balancing them is a skill in itself. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes, and live with a smile. The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. Ultimately, life is bigger than the pairs of opposites. Opposite values simply coexist on the planet. When you accept that contrasting experiences enrich each other, life is less stressful.
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