Blissful seconds in bungee jumping (2)
August 3, 2009
Filed under Actual Event, Impersonal Consciousness, Lesser Happiness, Perceived Emotions
Tags: Amness, Anticipation of Happiness, Anticipation of Pain, Apparition, Bungee Jumper, Castigating the Past, Chanting Breathing, Consciousness, Control, Emotions, Insane, Joyful, Mantras, meditation, Obsession, Perception, Power, Present Moment, Qiasi-meditative States, Rhytmic Breathing, Sense of Ego, Sense of Identity, Soulful Music, Strategizing the Future, Will
The present moment is wasted in castigating the past and strategizing the future. Knowing, deep down, of not having the wherewithal to affect our will, we would realize how insane is our obsession with power to control. It is a common experience that anticipation of happiness is probably more joyful than the actual event and anticipation of pain is more painful than the point of suffering.
In both the cases it is the present moment that is pregnant with perception of an event that has yet to happen. And in both cases the perception is in hyperbole. That is why the when the actual event takes place, both the pain and the happiness are lesser than projected.
Meditation is training the mind to be in the here and now. Chanting, and rhythmic breathing are means to this end. Focusing on a particular deity or mantras serve a similar purpose, to overcome the urge to let the mind wander.
The present moment is devoid of any sense of ego. The ego is an apparition that subsists only on the past. The pure present moment when disrobed of the past or future is just a sense of am-ness. This am-ness has no name, no past and no aspirations, rather like what the bungee jumper experiences. Or those moments when one is so absorbed in what one is doing that one loses the sense of identity.
Like listening to soulful music or for that matter when a surgeon is operating. We all probably experience these quasi- meditative states off and on but we might not be aware of it. That point of impersonal consciousness is nothing short of meditation. And losing one’s identity, even if for a few moments, is pleasurable. Because at that moment all perceived emotions also vanish as they are of the sense of identity. The realized soul resides in that state voluntarily. – The Times of India
The writer is a Neurosurgeon.
Email: deepakranade@ hotmail.com.
Soul Curry: Cheers to life! (1)
July 3, 2009
Filed under Blinking Machines, Happy Little World, Serius Heart Condition, Terrified Feelings, Vaguely Doubted
Tags: Bony Woman, Cardiologist, Carefree, Heart Condition, Insane, Little World, Machines, Pneumonia, Radiologist, Sterile Hospital Room, Survive, Well-built Woman
God morning friends. Cheers to life! That was said by many. In our life, we should always think what’s the best to have a good joy. Life can be the best as we want it to be. Life is hard, I admit that. But we have to struggle in all way and in the end you will get the best in what you do. There is this article a read that will help you to have a good soul a good spirit. Let me share it with you.
An illness can help you turn your life around, a friend teaches Renica Rego.
In May of 2006, my best friend, Angel was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a serious heart condition. She was 38. That was the first time I had even heard the word.
She was undergoing treatment for pneumonia at the time, when the radiologist had raised an alarm and sent her to a cardiologist. Within an hour, she was in hospital and our carefree, happy little world came crumbling down like a house of cards.
The bony woman lying helplessly in that sterile hospital room with strange machines blinking around her wasn’t my Angel at all. Even in my dazed state, I remember wondering how it was at all possible that a well-built woman like Angel could shrink to half her size within a day of being in hospital. It was absurd, insane.
The next few days are blurred in my memory. But I do remember fuming at people who even so much as vaguely doubted that Angel would survive. When one of them called a priest to her bedside, I almost lost it. But secretly, I was terrified inside, wondering whether she would survive and if she did, how she would cope with her illness. – The Times of India
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(Soul Curry is a column where we invite our readers to share their soul-stirring experiences)
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