HAPPY?

What have you done for yourself?

We are moving towards death by every ticking sound of the clock.

Tik-tok, tik-tok.. We got no time.

When we were young days were long.

I had so much time in the day that I could spend hours gazing at the birds and Gazelles in the Forest.

When we get older we wish there were more hours to the day.

If a miracle could add those extra hours a day,

Would you still be happy?

Will you find fulfilment merely by “doing more”?

Do your aspirations have an end?

Will you get off the hamster wheel?

You can have aspirations to be a king or queen, and they might be fulfilled.

But do you want to be a Sad King or Queen?

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I met a counsellor while I was working with an NGO.

She was confiding in me and telling me how unhappy she was.

I asked her what your day looked like.

She told me all the things she did for her family, her boyfriend and her boss (at work).

I pointed out, “What do you do for yourself?”.

“Nothing”, She said.

I suggested her to take some time out to paint, as she was good at art.

But that was half of the answer, given the premise of the conversation, and lack of her spiritual inclinations.

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We fall into the pitfall of doing-ness and think that doing more will give us a sense of fulfilment.

But in reality, we keep on doing things for external gratification or simply because we are conditioned to do so.

Society is conditioned to think that people who work are able.

Families are conditioned to think that participating in an event of pleasure is being happy.

NO!

Pleasure is not an activity.

Pleasure is a feeling that you get, only when you keep aside time for yourself to do nothing.

When I was watching those birds, gazelles and occasionally a fox in the woods I wasn’t running a script of National Geographic documentary in my head.

I was just there, watching.

Do nothing

Even if you are as busy as Barack Obama I would suggest the same.

Do nothing for a while. See how you feel.

Many emotions will surface that you have been neglecting all your life.

You will understand the aspects of your own life which were buried under the busy mind.

Find the unexplored horizons that are revealed to you if you refrain from interfering with the act of doing nothing, with unnecessary thoughts and activities.

Thoughts are activity

When you sit doing nothing. Don’t think.

Humans are storytellers.

We tell ourselves stories about how life was unfair to us and how it could have been better.

We tell stories to ourselves about why we can’t do certain things but completely miss the opportunity to consider why it could be done.

Thoughts are intangible activities. They consume energy and time.

Doing nothing, not even thinking brings our attention to the urges of the unconscious mind. To the dynamic expression of the superconscious.

A potential creation that you have been suppressing for ages.

Creation that divine itself wants to manifest using you as a medium.

Life will become full of surprises when you allow things to happen rather than doing them.

Honouring that urge will bring contentment to your life.

Spirituality is not an activity

Many seekers resort to stuffing their minds with spiritual jargon, it feels good like taking a puff of smoke.

That is not the purpose of spirituality.

The purpose of spirituality is to forget about everything else that is going on in life and be with yourself.

To be happy in the middle of the chaos of the phenomenon called life.

We are experiencing life because we have chosen to participate in it.

Participation brings happiness, joy, sorrow and disappointments.

When you detach yourself from the mundane life and the thoughts of past and present, your core brings you Bliss and Contentment.

Everything will go as it is going. But you will have changed.

Your view of the world would have changed.

The detachment comes by doing nothing.

Not even thinking.

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