I was a child some years ago, and I am in my 40s today. What changes is age, and what remains stagnant is "I". I used to play with toys, and today I like to read books and write blogs. What remains stagnant is "I", and what has changed are my likes and dislikes. I remain stagnant, while my likes, dislikes, thoughts, desires, and ambitions change significantly. When we close our eyes, thoughts about so many different things keep coming and going; the body keeps feeling different sensations. But something remains stagnant. Something within us observes all these changes, like a person sitting on a seashore, watching the waves.
How does that make a difference? When we observe, we see three different kinds of people. The first kind of people look at the waves in the ocean, fall in love with them, and fear they will fall off and disappear. They keep seeing the waves fall off, yet develop the same attachment to another set of waves and live in that fear again until they fall off. These types of people live in a perpetual state of fear. The second kind of people like to enjoy the waves. They take their surfboard and surf on the waves. They ride wave after wave until they get exhausted. After resting, they get ready to surf the next round of waves. The third kind of people learn about an island in a distant place and set a target to reach that island. They set sail for distant places and risk sailing in deep waters.
But a few actually see the reality of the waves and islands. A few realise that all these waves and islands are only on the ocean's surface. The ocean itself is quite deep. They try to dive deeper to know the ocean's reality and realise that the water below the surface is connected. All the waves merge into the water and are born from the same ocean. Once somebody experiences this reality, how can he stay fixated on a wave? How can he be afraid of losing a wave? He will know for sure that all the waves are temporary. How can he keep surfing the waves throughout his life? How can he set a target to reach a particular island?
So, will spirituality make us dull and boring? Will it make us lazy? Not at all. Once someone looks at the ocean's depths and learns how currents work, they understand and appreciate the universe's vastness and nature's profundity. They will naturally be curious to connect to it. He will connect with everybody around him. He will be free and fight for the freedom of everybody around him. He will connect with everybody around him because all the waves share the same source. All the bodies are made of the same five elements. Love and compassion will be his natural emotions. Love that isn’t selective, but encompasses everyone. He would like to explore, not a selected island for certain benefits; rather, he would like to explore nature's deepest secrets. It's like playing with nature. He would like to create new things in this world because creation is like participating in nature's play.
Ego is nothing but ignorance. That's why an ego-driven life is always limited and full of fear. It will either carry the fear of losing something or stress about becoming or achieving something. Either way, it’s stressful. On the other hand, an aware life is full of love, compassion, freedom, exploration, and creation. It will be in a state of flow. A state where we are so engrossed in the process that we lose sense of time. We may work all day and still feel fully refreshed. The body may be tired by its own laws, yet we may still have the energy to do new things at the end of the day. Life is a joy to live. I fail to understand why we choose to live in the well when we can walk under the sky. Just because of our arrogance of ignorance. That's why we don't let anyone help us. Just like a child whose parents take him by force to the doctor, and he makes every possible effort not to allow the doctor to carry out a small surgery to take the pus out of his wounds.
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