Sometimes we have moments where we do things without thinking, my sisters and I were driving along, we stopped to pick up a friend and I jumped out because I wanted to check on the back wheel. As I walked around my Blackberry fell into the street without thinking I followed my phone, I looked up into the face of a Citi Golf. It’s so easy to get attached to things that we don’t even realise how attached we are. I almost had a brush with death because I didn’t think, I always look left and right but I was so focused on my phone I followed it with my mind, body and almost my soul. Yes I am glad that I am alive but it brought me to the realization that attachment is often the death of one’s soul for attachment focuses on you and not on the bigger picture of life. Life would not have stopped without my cellphone but my actions did not reflect that. Let go and let flow.
“As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or to the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate. (39)”
― Ravi Ravindra, The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra
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| for we are like boats, bobbing on the sea that is life. |
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