CHANGING CANVAS OF MY WALL

Beautiful pink lilies have come out today in the pots placed on the side wall of my home.Yesterday i saw these as buds erupting from the soil, just about to flower. And a day before there was no sign, no pink hue. There is a constant change in nature.Everything changes. New combinations form and old ones lose existence with time.

Time is constantly passing. Time doesn't stop.Again tomorrow these lilies will fade away, before these wilt away and become nonexistent. Still the mark,the footprint of its existence will remain deep inside the soil, in the form of a seed or a bulb underneath. As the time passes that bulb will again push up some fresh green leaves and a beautiful pink bud.So the cycle goes on.

A constant change on the canvas, covering that wall. Sometimes it changes to beautiful flowers and at other times to only greens and at still other times just wilting flowers and leaves. Change is the only constant in life. No one has any control over this constant change.

Mesmerizing is the fact that no one is trying to control this change either.We are also accepting it as it is.We accept Laws of Nature. Nature is following its own rules, not dictated by any culture or society. Every seed bursts into a beautiful sapling if given the right environment. In another instance if the conditions are not conducive it remains dormant, eager to sprout but calm to wait for the appropriate conditions to grow in.
Learning from the NATURE'S CANVAS!!!!!!

WALKING PAST THE LIMITS

Scaling mountains is very tough, ask any trained mountaineer how difficult it was to reach the top.The joy of achieving the set target and the very next thought, an aspiration to scale another higher top.A constant urge to achieve higher goals is there to achieve better.The pulling factor has to be there....Even a sole such experience of joy is sufficient for the preparation of another feat.

The goals can be any ,varying  from sports to finances to spirituality or to a social cause..or an individual goal...a very personal one. Generally we have an intrinsic, fallible basic repetitive nature. Repetition in how we act in a given state is there always, till we get aware and make a genuine effort for a different approach.It needs lots of perseverance,motivation and practice,otherwise a lifetime is passed in repeated behavior...in stagnant waiting, with no improvement at any level.A life passed in sleep.No change. No life changing experience.

The stagnant behavior gives no challenges and so hardly any new experience is found. Everyone has the ill founded self holding limits as well as physical, mental or social limitations.With no or little action come no  or a very little experience.So hardly any joy is felt in a day today repetitive living.
Nature is also in constant change ,but a silent change.Beautifully caricaturing daily, different hues of exotic combinations .Its doing its best and striving to achieve much more in the given set environment. Even a very short spell of rain shower on a parched land propels the weeds underneath to spur with life and show itself as beautiful, delicate and fresh olive green saplings.

We also have a choice to remain in the comfort zone and never explore beyond our habitual  limits,...never see the unlimited that is sprawled there for anyone and everyone to grab.The infinite, unlimited in all spheres of life and beyond.We also have the choice to give undue importance to our burgeoning limitations that we inherently live with an inflated self view and sit back watching the life pass, day by day ...waiting for the last day...the end of life and say a final goodbye.

And also have a choice to disregard our own self etched,self defeating limits and limitations and go beyond it to feel the freshest of air of life...the joy of living....the pleasantness of feeling and living the abundance.
Life is beyond the limits in the beauty of infinite abundance...Grab it.Its sprawled for everyone.

POWER OF NOTHINGNESS

She is a shy child, about a six or seven year older........A regular complaint my parents heard every time they happened to meet my school teachers, adding to my embarrassment of course. So my parents and teachers both encouraged me to open up and come forward and participate. A regular approach, one must say. Nobody wants to give it a thought that the child might be more observant. May be too optimistic view of a genuinely not very pleasant behavior.....

Generally our whole approach is towards mixing with people more.....getting involved better. People all around are doing that. A race to be run everywhere, be it in some public domain, on social networking site or be it in a day to day affair. Everyone trying to satisfy an inner urge to feel accepted, important in this hostile environment....so a constant effort by almost all to out perform others, is visible all around.

Playing even a friendly football match is tough, needs lots of energy, power, skill and concentration. Of course the reward for the players comes as great well being on physical level and mental satisfaction of achievement.Watching the same match from outside is also very interesting. Now any spectator enjoys the game in a much broader spectrum than a player.The spectator is not actively participating,rather simply watching the game sitting out of the field. He can see all the players game from this spot.

Sometimes its good to observe passing life from a cozy little spot.It gives a better view of the all the aspects, good or bad.Thinking and getting a solution while one is in the center of chaotic life activity  is difficult sometimes.Its better to step aside and then think out of box in inner silence.

THE MOST ARDENT SPEAKER

Reaching my work place in time, passing through this heavy traffic is a daily ordeal. Now this long wait at red traffic signal. A look around i could see the tension on all the brows waiting around. Suddenly a flicker of thought, put a naughty smile, on my face.My mind was challenging me to find a smiling face in this crowded waiting period.

I started my hunt with a mischievous smile on my face.May be this passerby crossing the road is smiling or that person sitting in that luxury car is .No not really. May that cyclist passing from the opposite side, who just got a green go at the traffic signal after a long wait, is happily smiling.No.This woman holding a child, sitting in the cab must be having a good satisfied smile on her face.Not even her.

I could find no one cheerful except for a batch of school children, teasing each other,laughing.Why everyone else is so serious.

All, may be thinking something, generally, not even completely aware of the content, one thought overlapping the other, with hardly any time to concentrate on a single thought.Too much to do in such a short period of time.Why have we made our beautiful life like this.

We are habitually pushing ourselves all the time without any real observation. Just pushing through the road. Pushing through the life.The time passes on and on. And the real speaker remains unheard, as we have no time or energy left to listen to it silently or even be aware of it.

Always, we are in the company of either electronics or other people or may be with something else on the mind. Everything and everyone is bombarding us with fresh information, difficult to process the data received, but not impossible to hold. Every information again pushing our own ardent speaker further away.

This inner voice unfailingly trying to come up every time we relax, or spend some time with self. Hearing the sweetest conversation of self and then understanding it is probably not that difficult as we have made it to be.Spending some time with self does open numerous possibilities.
Listen!Listen!Listen! Its here, the most ardent speaker, within you.