Remember always that what so ever is happening around you is rooted in the mind. Mind is always the cause. It is the projector, and outside there are only screens -you project yourself. If you feel it is ugly then change the mind. If you feel what so ever comes from the mind is hellish and nightmarish.
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Nietzsche had no idea that just to give freedom is not enough - not only no enough, it is dangerous, it may reduce man to animality. In the name of freedom he may loose his path towards higher states of consciousness.
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Nagesh AlaiIn my three scores of life, no one has been yet able to convincingly explain to me why there are so many new years around the world or why we celebrate a new year. Astronomical studies of lunar or solar positions or winter solstice or vernal equinox or the seasons etc. to which different new years are linked to only make it that much more complex. For as long as I can remember, we have had a Tamil Hindu calendar (New Year starting with the month of ‘Chithirai’ (around April), a Marathi Kalanirnay calendar and a Gregorian calendar at home, all three serving different purposes.In this background, the idea of a New Year stopped making any sense to me long ago and neither do I remember when I gave up celebrating the New Year. In my lexicon, every day is a new year. Quite simply, every day is a celebration of life and calls for having a memorable experience.Time is infinite and life is finite. Human intellect and scientific temperament gave rise to calendars and finite measure of time as days, weeks, months and years perhaps to retrofit our own finite existence into the nature’s larger scheme of things. Calendars determining our ages has only made our temporariness in this world stark.So what exactly are we celebrating? Is it celebrating the several good things that have happened in the past year while trying to forget the many bad things? Is it celebrating some success or milestone or achievement in the year? Is it recognising that the year that has passed was not a good one and that we are celebrating hope itself? Or is it celebrating that we have survived to live yet another year? We are all social creatures. Celebration is inherent to our very being and reasons can be aplenty to get together and have a jolly good time; to have a jolly good time on this earth till time permits us. This collective positive energy is infectious and gives us a sense of security and wellbeing. Who really wants to get out of the comfort zone of a status quo?Quite frankly, we all live for ourselves because if we don’t, we cannot really live for others. It is our responsibility to be mindful of our living so that we do not impinge on the ability of others to live as well and mindfully. In this context, if we could make the world a better place for all the others in our own small way, we would have a cause to be happy and celebrate. The world has at one level become a global village and at another level it has become a barricaded turf and territory coming in the way of seamless mingling of minds, souls, colours, castes and religions. How do we get to a point where humans are just seen as humans and one large community? The day we get to that will really be a World Day and that is the hope that we should all work towards and celebrate.At the end of the day, New Year is just another New Day calling for living and celebrating. Life itself is a gift and a reason for celebration. A world where everyone were to jump out of bed every morning to celebrate would be a magical one indeed!Happy New Day, Happy New 365 days.
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When we greet each other with Happy “New” Year the New-ness we speak of is in the Now-ness! Happiness is not out there; it is now and here, nowhere else! It is always in the now-ness and freshness of our mindful awareness,
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Now that you are sober with a light head and a guilt complex, you start thinking about what you want to do in this brand new 2019. Let’s make some New year’s Resolutions.
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Much of emotional life is carried on the Jingle Channel. For many, the Jingle Channel is not the pleasent elevating experience. Sometime the lyrics are about loss and hopelessness. " She is gone, She is gone, She is gone, and She is never coming back" or " I am a born loser" are the sort of phrases that intrude when we are in a low mood. When these kind of Jingles are dominant and recurrent, we call the listeners depressed, and their thoughts have been named rumination or automatic thoughts. For others, the Jingle channel is a nightmare channel, A production of Stephen King that may feature ferocious animals or poisonous insects, or scenes of humiliation. These people are called object phobics or social phobics respectively. For others, the channel features thoughts of a heart attack or of going crazy or of loosing control - these peoples problem is called panic disorder.For still others, when they tune into their jingle channel, what they hear is alien, repugnant, fearful, and depressing. Worse, they have a loud channel that frequently intrigues unbitten on them during work and play. Their most common themes are dirt and contamination, checking for danger, and doubt. These people have a problem called obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which is named for the two elements that make it up. Their obsession is a thought or image that reoccurs, and their compulsion is the ritual at performed to neutralise the thought. When thought of dirt dominate the jingle channel, the person will wash his hand for an hour, or scrub her baby's room from floor to ceiling three times a day, or open doors only with her feet to avoid having her hands contaminated by germs f the door knob.Washing and cleaning rituals can take up large swaths of the day when, One 14 Year old had to wake up at 4.30 every morning in order to clean herself thoroughly and make the bed so that it was exactly right before she left for school at eight. She was plagued with a severe skin rashes and abrasions that result when you wash your hand for an hour or more at a time.Checkers find themselves waking many times each night to make sure that the gas in the kitchen is off, or that all the doors and windows are locked. One man drove to a cross road near his house ten times a day for months to make certain that there was no corpse lying there that he had run over and failed to notice on the last trip. Another woman always peered down into the toilet bowl to make sure that there was no baby in danger of being flushed away. Toilets, incidentally, are often featured on the OCD jingle channel : One otherwise successful and healthy dentist always had to flush in multiples of three - 9, 27, 81 or 243 times - before carrying on. He wasn't much fun to go drinking with.Do you or any of your loved one has OCD symptoms. Surely go and seek help. Do not indulge in self diagnosis.
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Swami Chaitanya Keerti Welcome the new year 2019 with happiness, though the happiness does not come with any dates of the calendar. It comes as a fresh breeze whenever it comes. Most of the time it depends on our acceptability and receptivity--how we receive and perceive it. And the real source is within us--eternally there, waiting to express itself. It is our own negative attitude towards life which is mostly the cause of blocking it. Happiness is intrinsic to our purity of our being--the more alive we are, the more happier we are. Aliveness is the exuberance of life, pulsation of our heart, a childlike quality, being thrilled without any reason--only with this gift of life that we have got it, whether we deserve it not. This existence is so generous that it gives life also to those people who may not seemingly deserve it--it does not discriminate or judge people. We do judge and discriminate, fret and fume, keep complaining all the time--making ourselves unhappy. Unhappiness or misery is our own creations--our own doing. In such a state of being, only the desire for happiness won't work--what really works is the conscious approach towards life --to live it happily moment to moment. Osho says: Whatever you have to do, wherever you may be, don’t do anything unhappily, because then, even if you enter heaven, you will enter unhappily; there too you will always manage to find reasons for being unhappy. You will be always looking for unhappiness, and there too you will generate darkness. Even if God himself is present, you will find that something or other is wrong, so that you can remain unhappy. Whatever you are doing, do it happily. Don’t ask for happiness. Happiness is not to be purchased from somewhere or to be asked from somebody. The enlightened master says: Live happily, don’t ask for happiness. Whatever may be happening, seek out where and how you can find happiness in it. Then even a dry crust of bread can give you happiness - if you know how to find it. If you know how to be happy, even ordinary water can quench you deeply. If you know how to be happy then even the shade from an ordinary tree will put palaces to shame. If you know how to be happy then just the song of the birds in the morning or the sun rising, or the beauty of the stars at night, or even a small breeze, can shower you with happiness. He emphasizes: Don’t ever ask for happiness - live happily. The moment you ask, you have already begun to live in unhappiness. Seek in everything around you to find where happiness lies. Happiness is there. And drink so deeply from it that not a moment goes to waste, not a moment is without it. Squeeze it. Whatever the source of happiness, squeeze it! When you drink water, when you take your food, when you walk on the road or sit under a tree and just take a breath, even then, live in happiness. Make being happy the art of living, and not asking for and desiring happiness. For a meditator, happiness is certainly an art of living. If one knows this art, he will be able to share it all around, as the flower shares its fragrance to anybody who comes close to it. A happy person keeps blooming like a flower. Osho says: Happiness, joy begins to share of its own accord. It begins to spread all around you. Waves of happiness will arise in you, and songs of joy will emanate from you. But happiness is not a demand; happiness is a way of living. Please understand this difference correctly. Happiness is not a wish, happiness is the art of living. The moment you demand it, you have missed. Learn the art, start with this very moment. What is lacking in this moment? Everywhere around you birds are singing, the sun’s rays are showering on you, life is blooming, you are alive. At this moment where is the shortage of joy? This moment is full of joy.
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The language of words is useful during the day, but it is not useful at night. We again , become primitive at night. We disappear in sleep as we are. We loose our degrees, our university education, everything. We are transported to a point where the original man once stood.
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