๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฌ #010 - ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Have you ever just sat there, doing absolutely nothing, no phone, no TV, no videos, no tasks to do. Just stillness. Today, we are always "busy" doing something. We are wanting to fill our gaps. Weโฆ
Have you ever just sat there, doing absolutely nothing, no phone, no TV, no videos, no tasks to do. Just stillness.
Today, we are always "busy" doing something. We are wanting to fill our gaps. We steal the 5 seconds that we get free. Even our toilets are no longer mobile safe now. All those moments of brilliance we could have got are getting lost.
The "Eureka" moments in a shower are no longer. We have outsourced our thinking to someone else. Again, I am not saying it is not right, but what I am saying is we might soon lose the moment, those flashes of brilliances, those original thoughts.
Are we moving to a world where everything is artificial or would there be a moment when people want to go back to natural.
I believe a time would come, when people wan to shun their mobiles for a moment, where people would happily give away mobile, set aside 2 hours without touching it and just be.
Yes, being "just be" is the moment. One need not be always busy with something. Ramana Maharshi would sit in complete stillness for hours, sometimes day. His disciples would receive silence instead of grand teaching and those were the most powerful transformations of their lives.
๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ฎ๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐
โข During an evening walk, do not take it along with you. People at home know that you are safe.
โข Shower / Toilets - just be and enjoy the moment.
โข Eating Your Meals - avoid taking calls or checking WA messages.
โข Any other private moment you can think of.
The Vedic tradition had a word for this intentional withdrawal โ Mauna. Not the absence of sound. The absence of the need to fill space. Real intelligence, the ancients believed, does not arise from consumption. It arises from space.
The ancient world had silence. And from that silence, they built wisdom we are still reading thousands of years later. That alone should make us pause.
"When did I last allow myself to be completely, unproductively still โ and what did my mind do with that freedom?"
Today, we are always "busy" doing something. We are wanting to fill our gaps. We steal the 5 seconds that we get free. Even our toilets are no longer mobile safe now. All those moments of brilliance we could have got are getting lost.
The "Eureka" moments in a shower are no longer. We have outsourced our thinking to someone else. Again, I am not saying it is not right, but what I am saying is we might soon lose the moment, those flashes of brilliances, those original thoughts.
Are we moving to a world where everything is artificial or would there be a moment when people want to go back to natural.
I believe a time would come, when people wan to shun their mobiles for a moment, where people would happily give away mobile, set aside 2 hours without touching it and just be.
Yes, being "just be" is the moment. One need not be always busy with something. Ramana Maharshi would sit in complete stillness for hours, sometimes day. His disciples would receive silence instead of grand teaching and those were the most powerful transformations of their lives.
๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ฎ๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐
โข During an evening walk, do not take it along with you. People at home know that you are safe.
โข Shower / Toilets - just be and enjoy the moment.
โข Eating Your Meals - avoid taking calls or checking WA messages.
โข Any other private moment you can think of.
The Vedic tradition had a word for this intentional withdrawal โ Mauna. Not the absence of sound. The absence of the need to fill space. Real intelligence, the ancients believed, does not arise from consumption. It arises from space.
The ancient world had silence. And from that silence, they built wisdom we are still reading thousands of years later. That alone should make us pause.
"When did I last allow myself to be completely, unproductively still โ and what did my mind do with that freedom?"