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Life beyond merely surviving

If you grow, you are not more than a tree.

You are not more than an animal if you judge the world based on five sensory data.

Knowing that you are growing and allowing the fruition, being aware makes you human.

To reason is to be human. To question is to human.

To stretch the boundaries of known to unknown and exploring the possibilities beyond mind and body is a human pursuit.

One who seeks the truth doesn’t seek happiness but bliss.

The bliss that arises from the core of his being.

Things that are not labelled right and wrong.

Thoughts are left alone and thoughts leave you alone.

A pursuit which does not seem natural, yet it is the final destination of human evolution.

To be thoughtless, to be empty and yet full of contentment.

All the philosophers of the past have emphasised only things that can be sensed with the sensory organs.

It is only in the East the seekers have acknowledged the aspects of our being beyond reasoning, conditioning and experience.

As a man searches for truth, he searches for himself, as he searches for himself he finds nobody.

As there is nobody, who is the one who is experiencing?

Life begins when you find this empty nature of your mind.

A real quest arises when you realise the polarities of the mind and liberate it from the bondage of good and bad, hot and cold and so on.

West knows the gates of known and bodily pleasures, East knows what lies beyond.

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The problem with the human condition is that, we are not stressed because we are doing too much, but we are stressed because we are not doing what we were born to do.

Things that bring contentment.

Things that are aligned with our true nature.

Things that make you joyful and it is shared and spread across.

The fault largely lies in the fact that we don’t know what we love to do because we don’t know ourselves.

All our lives we are forced to study everything external what has happened in the past and what is expected of the future.

It feel people with anger when I bring this up.

You can run away from this fact and live in denial, the the fact remains that you were trained to think of the past and future all the time.

Learn this, you will find a job in that.

It has happened in history, and so it will happen in the future too. History repeats itself they say.

No school teaches its students to be in the present moment.

It is dangerous.

Parents won’t pay the fee if they don’t know what their children are going to be in future.

“Become no one” is not a sexy line for the school prospectus.

Someday, sooner or later, we have to wake up to the fact that the present is the only moment we have in our hands.

And then it slips away even before closing our fists.

Someday, we have to wake up from the dream of living in a dream.

Someday we have to wake from the idea of living a life and face life for what it is.

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We are so much engrossed in the idea of living a life, that we nearly recognise what is reality.

Living does not mean living with the idea that life will be better someday.

That you have to work today in foot forward to have a better life tomorrow.

Your work becomes a monotonous utterly boring act with the ifs and buts attached to it.

By doing so you are constantly postponing the living in the current moment.

Missing the reality which is far greater than the fantasies of the past and future.

Miracles happen when you live in the present moment.

But we were never taught to do so.

Every birth holds a possibility of creating something unique in this world, and yet we spend most of our lives living like someone else.

Something that is proven is proven, what is the point in proving it over and over again?

The world does not need a clone of what already exists, it needs to see something new.

Let your being shine, bathing in the light of new.

Fresh.

Renewed and relieved in every moment that passes by.

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Your actions dictate the way conversate with existence.

Your being is the expression.

You will not be able to express completely, until and unless you find out who you are.

Life is a waste of living in the borrowed aspiration.

What makes others happy is not necessarily meant for you.

You have to find out what makes you happy.

What fills you with contentment?

And to find it out, your being has to be aligned with the core of your being.

If your mind is on the world tour don’t expect change in the home.

Find a comfortable place, lose all the distractions for a while and just be.

Let your core be aligned with the unborn nature of your mind.

Mind that is still, relaxed and unused; disappears.

Things will no longer appear to be good or bad. As the veil of mind is lifted.

You see the world as it is.

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You will lose interest in many things you thought you were interested in.

You will recognise the things that truly matter to you.

The things that are true to you and you have a natural inclination to perceive.

Your work no longer remains a monotonous activity. It becomes an extension of who you are.

When you draw you become the painting. When you dance you become the dance, when you write you become the ink on the paper.

Fluid, flexible, egoless.

Life will no longer be dictation and a life sentence.

It will become an expression of who you are at the unmoving centre of your being.

To your surprise, you will have so much time left in your hand that you will be free to relax and meditate.

The clarity will make things easy for you. You will know beforehand what you want to do and what not.

You will be very clear on what to participate in.

You will no longer force the living unto yourself. But truly life, with the grace of the divine.

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Burn those motivational books you’ve collected all your life.

As motivation is a call for the cripple to run.

You are not cripple. You were only walking on a path that was not meant for you.

Once you have understood this, leave that path and pave your own.

Nothing of you that is known to others will remain the same.

You will see yourself in a new light.

You will have replaced the candles with the Sun.

People will feel the change. Those who can adjust will adjust, those who cannot will get out for good.

You will lose all the references and context to life. Which can be scary at a time, but that is the way you lead a courageous life.

Courage to die to the past and give up on the idea of the future.

You are required right here, right now in the present.

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This is what makes us humans.

The cognition to recognise and think about what we are thinking.

To be marinated in the unknown, unborn and uncaused nature of our being.

This is what separates us from the animals.

Your being blossoms, as you are not getting old anymore, you are just there present.

Being bears fruits, unexpected. Serendipity.

Your existence flourishes, as it no longer lives on the stagnant matters of knowledge and information.

It drinks directly from the source.

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Your decisions will no longer depend on conventional wisdom.

As you break the frames of good and bad, you are free to act on your whims and fancies.

Live direct as it comes.

Face the adversities with utmost courage and celebrate them like you celebrate the victory.

This life is nothing more than an occasion to celebrate.

Don’t waste it taking it too seriously.

Face yourself and you will find a way out of your miseries on your own.

You don’t need any hand from a saviour and a lamp post to shed some light on your way.

You hold everything within. Let it out and be the light unto yourself.

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