You Will Never Get Bored Outdoors
Two weeks back i furnished my family home. I am single, and my mother and sister have gone on a long trip. So i stay alone and idle in that house for more than 2 hours a day. I don't like watching V all by myself. I slept through the whole of the first day. On the second ay, i said would keep myself busy. How can one enjoy oneself in much a setting? When God has blessed the world with flowers, trees, the sun and stars, rippling rivers and chirping birds, why should anyone want to look for enjoyment inside closed premises? John Keats said that a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Lonely or in company, you can savour the seauty of the things God has so lovingly created. Our biggest problem seems o be that we are quick to identify ways to become dejected, and are too slow to register the abundance of opportunities for happiness. Liberate yourself from the domination of closed spaces. Go out and feel the breeze as it rustles your hair, and enjoy the feel of the rain on your skin. You will never get bored outdoors. Boredom is nothing but the movement of thoughts, a state of your mind. If you think you are bored, you will really be bored. If you give up the thought and refuse to verbalise it, you will not be bored. Fear is movement of thought just as boredom is movement of thought. So you have to learn to think the right thoughts or to be without any thoughts. If you succeed in eliminating thoughts altogether, you will reach Buddha's state of enlightenment. Then the emptiness begins to expand. You will eventually reach a stage in which you will not be bound by common needs, aspirations and concerns. When you are practising meditation, thoughts may intrude into your mind. Enjoy the thoughts. Still, strive towards the state of Shayna Chita-empty mind. If you can reach the state of Shayna, you don't have to go to sleep for its own sake because you are asleep, your mind will be in a shunya state. If you can achieve shunya chitta in a waking state, you will never get bored. This is a yogic state, one that you reach only through sadhana-mental discipline. It takes time and practice to be able to travel constantly between chinta and Shayna chitta, between a burdened mind and an empty mind. I am not advocating a retreat from the worse-off action or withdrawal from activengagement with reality. I am only pointing out the need to be able to banish an all-consuming concern with the external world. Problems appear bigger than they really are because you are exaggerating. When a problem is a that occupies your mind, it is nature that problem to grow large eyout occupy all the available mental space, isn't it? A seeker asked me, "I find that negative feelings like anger and jealousy have increased in me. How do you explain it?" This is like story of a patient who went to the doctor for a check up. And said there’ll ill after meeting the doctor. Surely, going to the doctor is not cause of the disease! The doctor on made the patient realise that he had the disease.
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The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Sukhabodhananda Khan views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Swami Sukhabodhananda and Speaking Tree,Times of India
You Will Never Get Bored Outdoors
Two weeks back i furnished my family home. I am single, and my mother and sister have gone on a long trip. So i stay alone and idle in that house for more than 2 hours a day. I don't like watching V all by myself. I slept through the whole of the first day. On the second ay, i said would keep myself busy. How can one enjoy oneself in much a setting? When God has blessed the world with flowers, trees, the sun and stars, rippling rivers and chirping birds, why should anyone want to look for enjoyment inside closed premises? John Keats said that a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Lonely or in company, you can savour the seauty of the things God has so lovingly created. Our biggest problem seems o be that we are quick to identify ways to become dejected, and are too slow to register the abundance of opportunities for happiness. Liberate yourself from the domination of closed spaces. Go out and feel the breeze as it rustles your hair, and enjoy the feel of the rain on your skin. You will never get bored outdoors. Boredom is nothing but the movement of thoughts, a state of your mind. If you think you are bored, you will really be bored. If you give up the thought and refuse to verbalise it, you will not be bored. Fear is movement of thought just as boredom is movement of thought. So you have to learn to think the right thoughts or to be without any thoughts. If you succeed in eliminating thoughts altogether, you will reach Buddha's state of enlightenment. Then the emptiness begins to expand. You will eventually reach a stage in which you will not be bound by common needs, aspirations and concerns. When you are practising meditation, thoughts may intrude into your mind. Enjoy the thoughts. Still, strive towards the state of Shayna Chita-empty mind. If you can reach the state of Shayna, you don't have to go to sleep for its own sake because you are asleep, your mind will be in a shunya state. If you can achieve shunya chitta in a waking state, you will never get bored. This is a yogic state, one that you reach only through sadhana-mental discipline. It takes time and practice to be able to travel constantly between chinta and Shayna chitta, between a burdened mind and an empty mind. I am not advocating a retreat from the worse-off action or withdrawal from activengagement with reality. I am only pointing out the need to be able to banish an all-consuming concern with the external world. Problems appear bigger than they really are because you are exaggerating. When a problem is a that occupies your mind, it is nature that problem to grow large eyout occupy all the available mental space, isn't it? A seeker asked me, "I find that negative feelings like anger and jealousy have increased in me. How do you explain it?" This is like story of a patient who went to the doctor for a check up. And said there’ll ill after meeting the doctor. Surely, going to the doctor is not cause of the disease! The doctor on made the patient realise that he had the disease.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Sukhabodhananda Khan views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Swami Sukhabodhananda and Speaking Tree,Times of India