Life is a constant flow of
experiences and emotions. However, many people do not know what it means to be
at ease. Just like a dog that is completely relaxed after a satisfying meal,
humans also need to understand the essence of ease. Without this understanding,
people often experience various diseases and discomforts.
The Essence of Salt
Salt can be used as a metaphor
to describe the state of ease. Just like the essence of salt, ease can only be
experienced when it merges with something. If salt sticks out, it is considered
bad. Similarly, when people stick out in life, they often feel uneasy and
disconnected.
Living with the Dead
Most people on this planet
live with the deadness of their past. Their personality is shaped by their
ideas, emotions, opinions, and prejudices. They are constantly investing in
their memories, which are essentially dead. This constant attachment to the
past creates a jumpy and restless condition in their lives.
Living in the Present
To experience true ease and
restfulness, it is important to let go of the deadness of the past. By wiping
out all levels of memory, including the mind and body, one can live in the
present moment as a piece of life itself. This allows for a deeper connection
with the whole existence.
Don't Give Your Problems too Many Names
Often, people give their
problems too many names and decorate them, which prevent them from finding
solutions. The key is to understand that the body and mind are not taking
instructions from you. By accepting this fact and finding access to the
"keyboard" of your being, you can start typing out what you truly
want in life.
Embracing the State of Ease
Once you have access to the
keyboard of your being, you can embrace the state of ease and allow what you
want to happen in your life. This requires letting go of the attachment to the
past and living in the present moment. By doing so, you can experience a sense
of flow and harmony with the world around you.
Remember, ease is not
something that needs to be acquired or achieved. It is already within you,
waiting to be tapped into. Embrace the essence of life and let go of the
deadness of the past to experience true ease and fulfilment.
Why would somebody want to
manage stress? I could get it for some time, then I realize people have made a
conclusion that stress is an extra limb that they have in their body. Stress is
an appendage that they cannot get rid of. It is not a part of you. Who gets
stressful? Because you do not know how to handle your mind. No attention has
been paid as to how to handle this mind, how to handle this emotion, how to
handle this body, how to handle these energies. Nothing has been done about it.
You're managing such a sophisticated system accidentally, so you're being
stressful. It's a natural outcome of such unconscious living. There is no other
way to be. In each person, it may be different kind. One may just change by
instruction, another needs light punching, another needs a little more, another
needs different kind of people. So whether you need just two days of yoga or
two weeks of yoga or two months of yoga or two years of yoga, we can decide that
after two days are over. If two days are enough, fine, that's wonderful. If you
need more, we must do more. But it is very, very important your body and your
mind takes instructions from you, you and you alone and nobody but you.
The term stress management, I
could not understand because in my understanding, we manage things which are
precious to us. Our families, our businesses, our money, our property, whatever
is precious to us. Stress is not because of the work. It's your inability to
handle your own systems which makes you stressful. Somewhere, you don't know
how to keep your body, mind, and emotions. So how to keep your system free of
stress so that morning or evening, you're in the same level of enthusiasm, same
level of relaxation, same level of happiness.
Something is an absolutely new
dimension which is added to my thinking process. You don't really have to look
for your happiness outside. It's just within you. You don't have to really do
much. It's just within you. Every human experience has a chemical basis.
Towards what you call as peace is one kind of chemistry, anxiety another kind
of chemistry, stress other characteristics. The people are not advised to be
happy or peaceful but to engineer their chemistry the way they want it. If you
establish a chemistry of blissfulness, that's how you will be. Chambavi Mahamudra
is a way of activating your energies in such a way that you don't think your
job is stressful. If you're a student and you don't find employment when you
come out of college, that is stressful. If you get a job this is even more
stressful. If you don't get married, that is very stressful. If you get
married, I don't want to say anything, marriage means stress. If you don't have
children, that is stressful. If you have children, you pull your hair out with
stress. Success is happening to you because of your inability to manage your
own system. Not knowing how to manage the system is stressfulness.
If you drive your car at 2000
rpm, the engine may last 100,000 kilometers. If you drive the same engine at
5000 rpm, it may last only 50,000 miles or less, simply because it
unnecessarily revved up. So if this can do everything that it has to do at an
easy pace, that means it is happening efficiently. Any machine which has the
least amount of friction within itself happens efficiently, naturally produces
more with the least amount of stress.
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