ENTER THE FOREST

Forest was the Mind and Thorns were the Thoughts.

When I was a kid, I used to roam barefoot.

There was a dense forest in front of our house.

A babul forest.

While it held wildlife like birds, hares, gazelles and foxes, the forest was full of thorns.

And to see the wildlife, Nature and hidden beauty one had to walk the ground full of thrones.

I suffered many injuries from the throne and several times lost my way back home.

I reflect on it as a meditative experience. It was my initiation into spirituality.

Forest was the Mind and Thorns were the Thoughts.

Our Forests

We live in a forest. We always live in our minds.

We rarely see the possibilities of living without a mind. It never comes to our mind that why we have this mind.

It is full of fantasies, and amusement. We are so engaged in this drama that we forget that we are distracted, from ourselves and our true nature.

Our jobs are opium, which rewards us at the end of the month, to keep us running on the hamster wheel.

Our life outside our work is also an activity. Mall, friends, cleaning the house and so on.

We are merely surviving, and barely living the life.

Busy with thinking about past and future and pondering over the possibilities and interconnectedness of the intricate nature of permutations and computations.

It sounds heavy and complicated because it is heavy and complicated.

But there is no turning back from the fact that we live in the jungle of concrete and the forest of the mind.

The more you walk unaware and careless, the more you will have to suffer from the wounds of the thorns.

The pain of losing expectations and the aces of desires unfulfilled.

Then how might you find the way out of the forest, in the forest?

Finding the Way in the Forest

Awareness.

“Once you know you are foolish you are no longer foolish.” — Osho

Be aware of the thorns on the ground. Look into your thoughts.

If you are aware of the thoughts, you will find a gap between them.

The gap is the way out of the forest of mind.

If you focus on the thoughts they will grow, if you focus on the emptiness it will grow.

Your job is to focus on the emptiness and everything else will disappear.

As the emptiness grows, the thorns disappear, and so does the forest.

You find a way because you see the way for the first time.

Realisation.

Way back home

Walk on the path. Practice.

Your realisation will act as a guiding light for you.

Follow your intuitions and keep your mind empty.

The empty pot of your mind will be filled with divinity.

Superconsciousness will linger in it.

Don’t stop yet, keep walking.

Until the vessel of the empty mind is broken and you become the superconsciousness.

No forest, no thorns, no way.

No mind, no thoughts, nothing to practice.

Live as it comes, and face life as it is fearlessly.

Be.

Be Present

Being present is the biggest present you can give to the world.

Yes, you can help others realise the way back home, but most importantly, you excuse yourself from the foolishness of the world and you excuse the world with your emotional baggage.

You become more and more aware of yourself and find new horizons within while being detached from the world.

This doesn’t mean you don’t participate in the activities of the world.

Voluntarily involuntarily you will cross paths with others.

Let it be an occasion to connect and share the flame. Let your conversation with the world be the seed of finding a path for someone.

Don’t shy away from the marketplace. Visit the forest once in a while.

Many people are lost in it and need someone to point the way.

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