Hi Folks!
How's life?!
I went for a 15 - day Vipassana Course to the Golden Pagoda Center at Gorai, Mumbai and got rid of a lot of garbage and baggage.
I am sharing my merits (Punya) with all of you.
May you all be happy, peaceful and liberated.
Check it out on Google, the Pagoda is awesome and a place of very powerful positive vibrations.
It's design is based on the Shvedagon Pagoda of Yangon, Myanmar.
I want to tell you something interesting which came to me when I was there.
Vipassana teaches one how to live in the present moment and be equanimous to it.
A moment is tiny. A very small part in the larger stream of time.
'Moment' intrigues me, and I thought, it's like looking at something through a microscope.
Like, say, the center of a beautiful flower painted on a 2" by 2" tile.The lovely flower, fully opened, has colourful pollen bunched together tightly in a ball.
This ball may be the size of a pinhead or a pea, but have you noticed the symmetry and the beauty in it?
Each dot of grain is important, has it's own space in the flower, without which the flower would be incomplete.
Each tiny bit has a role to play, however insignificant it may seem in the overall bouquet or arrangement.
It has it's place and reason of being which is to add grace and beauty to the flower.
Now think of that flower as one of a huge arrangement, or as one of hundreds of blossoms in a garden, painted as part of a huge picture on a wall which is say, 200' by 100'.
This mural would be breathtaking in it's myriad colours and shades and shadows.
Something so very uplifting to the soul.
Would it be the same if just one tile fell off?
Or, in one of those electrified advertisements at night in the Times Square, would a blank space, which is not lit, mar the whole colossal advert?
That one tile is our present life.
That single grain of pollen, the present moment.
We are part of a wonderful, exciting drama which is currently unfolding for us.
At times, our part may seem insignificant to us, but in the overall picture, it is not.
We have written it ourselves to challenge and entertain ourselves and others with their consent and agreement.
We have agreed to be present in their dramas too.
It is mutual.
The part we are playing may not be the one we have actually decided on.
Maybe we have forgotten the spirit of it.
For example, my chosen purpose in this life could be that I will control and eventually get rid of my anger.
Our life is both a class and a test at the same time and there is neither fun nor any sense of achievement if one cheats.
So I will not remember this, and do two things with growing gusto -
1. Attract people and situations which will make me angry and angrier.
2, Get angry!
Usually, we learn to push down our anger or hope it will one day go away by someone's grace and work on ourselves only after a heart attack or ulcers.
Or just live a sad, bitter life.
Whatever makes you so, say these four magical sentences -
1. I am sorry.
2. Please forgive me.
3. I love you.
4. Thank you.
I am off to Myanmar on 19th Dec for a Vipassana Yatra.
On 22nd and 23rd, meditators from all over the world will meditate at the Shvedagon Pagoda in Yangon under the guidance of Vipassana Acharya Shri. S.N. Goenkaji.
Then we visit the other Pagodas in other places in Myanmar.
Where will you be on 22nd December?
I can make you one request -
Inside. Go inside yourself.
Connect with yourself, your spiritual guide.
You are so much more spiritual and wonderful than you believe yourselves to be.
We live in exciting times!
I shall write another post before I leave.
Enjoy.
Spring - clean.
Forgive.
Love.
How's life?!
I went for a 15 - day Vipassana Course to the Golden Pagoda Center at Gorai, Mumbai and got rid of a lot of garbage and baggage.
I am sharing my merits (Punya) with all of you.
May you all be happy, peaceful and liberated.
Check it out on Google, the Pagoda is awesome and a place of very powerful positive vibrations.
It's design is based on the Shvedagon Pagoda of Yangon, Myanmar.
I want to tell you something interesting which came to me when I was there.
Vipassana teaches one how to live in the present moment and be equanimous to it.
A moment is tiny. A very small part in the larger stream of time.
'Moment' intrigues me, and I thought, it's like looking at something through a microscope.
Like, say, the center of a beautiful flower painted on a 2" by 2" tile.The lovely flower, fully opened, has colourful pollen bunched together tightly in a ball.
This ball may be the size of a pinhead or a pea, but have you noticed the symmetry and the beauty in it?
Each dot of grain is important, has it's own space in the flower, without which the flower would be incomplete.
Each tiny bit has a role to play, however insignificant it may seem in the overall bouquet or arrangement.
It has it's place and reason of being which is to add grace and beauty to the flower.
Now think of that flower as one of a huge arrangement, or as one of hundreds of blossoms in a garden, painted as part of a huge picture on a wall which is say, 200' by 100'.
This mural would be breathtaking in it's myriad colours and shades and shadows.
Something so very uplifting to the soul.
Would it be the same if just one tile fell off?
Or, in one of those electrified advertisements at night in the Times Square, would a blank space, which is not lit, mar the whole colossal advert?
That one tile is our present life.
That single grain of pollen, the present moment.
We are part of a wonderful, exciting drama which is currently unfolding for us.
At times, our part may seem insignificant to us, but in the overall picture, it is not.
We have written it ourselves to challenge and entertain ourselves and others with their consent and agreement.
We have agreed to be present in their dramas too.
It is mutual.
The part we are playing may not be the one we have actually decided on.
Maybe we have forgotten the spirit of it.
For example, my chosen purpose in this life could be that I will control and eventually get rid of my anger.
Our life is both a class and a test at the same time and there is neither fun nor any sense of achievement if one cheats.
So I will not remember this, and do two things with growing gusto -
1. Attract people and situations which will make me angry and angrier.
2, Get angry!
Usually, we learn to push down our anger or hope it will one day go away by someone's grace and work on ourselves only after a heart attack or ulcers.
Or just live a sad, bitter life.
Whatever makes you so, say these four magical sentences -
1. I am sorry.
2. Please forgive me.
3. I love you.
4. Thank you.
I am off to Myanmar on 19th Dec for a Vipassana Yatra.
On 22nd and 23rd, meditators from all over the world will meditate at the Shvedagon Pagoda in Yangon under the guidance of Vipassana Acharya Shri. S.N. Goenkaji.
Then we visit the other Pagodas in other places in Myanmar.
Where will you be on 22nd December?
I can make you one request -
Inside. Go inside yourself.
Connect with yourself, your spiritual guide.
You are so much more spiritual and wonderful than you believe yourselves to be.
We live in exciting times!
I shall write another post before I leave.
Enjoy.
Spring - clean.
Forgive.
Love.
2 comments:
Ma'am, I am sorry but your entire philosophy wasn't convincing at all. I came to you with curiosity to get familiar with PLR....it sounded unique to me when my colleague shared his experience with me but on the opposite I found it a kid's play....I was not there to judge you and your practice, I was there to see something which makes me feel that out of what we see there is much that we can never think of...in my Plr session I was bored making stories which were baseless obviously because they were my instant creation....I was not at all in my sub concious mind that probably you could have also realized but if not then let me tell you every character that I could make where all of film stars and different artist....one Time I started imagining something in animation..all movie types...I still don't object this methodology but the way it was delivered was not worth...Sorry If you feel offensive due to my post...but after long silence I could not stop myself
mam, it is very interesting and reassuring. i will continue to read. shweta
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