How many of us know how to Enjoy Life? I just released that I have not written anything about the title of my blog. It is a human right to enjoy life. The methods and meanings of enjoying life differs from person to person. For some people it may be going on a vacation and read a nice book and forget about work. For others, it may be spending time with family and simultaneously use a work phone to attend to business. Whatever it is it is a human right to enjoy life.
I have been trying to understand how I want to enjoy life. I am some one who is not passionate about life. I can't fix my mind to any particular thing or interest. I realised that I am some one who wants to take life as it is.
How can I enjoy life if I don't know how to? and want brings me joy?
This question brings us to an associated topic called 'joy'. I hear from the learned that one does not need a reason to be joyous for the self is the joy! People may have reasons to be sad but there need not be a reason to be happy.
For the wise, happy and sad both mean the same and that stage is where the wise finds the 'inner silence.
Inner silence can occur to anyone who undergoes a sudden state of crisis (for example, death of a close member of family) and that silence brings clarity in mind. The same inner silence occurs in deep sleep when we are unconscious. To see that inner silence in consciousness is through Meditation.
Meditation allows us to see God and attain clarity of mind.
To summarise, if I want to enjoy life I realise that I am my own happiness, but happiness and sadness are wheels.One follows the other. I don't want to get caught in this wheel. I want to get out of this circle which means I should experience inner silence when I am conscious. That can happen through meditation. For me to enjoy life, I need to meditate and experience the inner silence.
Once inner silence is attained I can enjoy life because I then will see things equally. The two monsters called Desire and Fear can be conquered and Bliss follows. When one attains Bliss who cares about life anyway!! Long ways for me....the key is not to go finding for things, let them happen when I am ready....
I have been trying to understand how I want to enjoy life. I am some one who is not passionate about life. I can't fix my mind to any particular thing or interest. I realised that I am some one who wants to take life as it is.
How can I enjoy life if I don't know how to? and want brings me joy?
This question brings us to an associated topic called 'joy'. I hear from the learned that one does not need a reason to be joyous for the self is the joy! People may have reasons to be sad but there need not be a reason to be happy.
For the wise, happy and sad both mean the same and that stage is where the wise finds the 'inner silence.
Inner silence can occur to anyone who undergoes a sudden state of crisis (for example, death of a close member of family) and that silence brings clarity in mind. The same inner silence occurs in deep sleep when we are unconscious. To see that inner silence in consciousness is through Meditation.
Meditation allows us to see God and attain clarity of mind.
To summarise, if I want to enjoy life I realise that I am my own happiness, but happiness and sadness are wheels.One follows the other. I don't want to get caught in this wheel. I want to get out of this circle which means I should experience inner silence when I am conscious. That can happen through meditation. For me to enjoy life, I need to meditate and experience the inner silence.
Once inner silence is attained I can enjoy life because I then will see things equally. The two monsters called Desire and Fear can be conquered and Bliss follows. When one attains Bliss who cares about life anyway!! Long ways for me....the key is not to go finding for things, let them happen when I am ready....
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