The water is always moving, but the ocean stands still. The surface of the ocean is always moving with wind, but the heart of the ocean is always calm and still. Similarily, the taoist sees all, senses all, but the mind is still, calm and deep.

The Choice to be happy!

A choice to be happy yes, there is a choice to be happy, though we remain unaware of it. Yes, it is possible for each of us to be happy and yes, the choice is ours. Let us see how to exercise the choice. To be happy, first of all make your parents happy, make ur wife happy, treat your childrem well, be good to nighbours, friends and collegues and in a very short time there will be little to complaint about. It will be altogether a new life. Next thing, sit down, think and note what are your wants in life and what are your needs. An accomodation is a need. A house of own is a want and a sprawling bungalow is a sheer, naked desire and desires are endless and unsatiable. They grow, grow and grow till beoynd your any means. To avoid the murderous traps of desire be clear what are your needs, wants and desires. You may also make concentric circles and of needs, wants and desires, needs being the innermost, wantsnext and desires the biggest. Once this exercise is over, You will be Surprised to find that there actually is very little that you need and a mountain of difficult, costly desires. The way is to work your way outwards from the circle of the needs. As good food is a need, eating out is a want and five star lunch a dezire. Work your way out and find happiness in your mind and heart. May your heart be at bliss.

The Secret of the Natural way

As a seed turns into a sapling, a sapling into a plant, a plant, into a tree

Buds to flowers, flowers to fruits, fruits to seeds,

So is the journey through our lives.

A divine soul not free in an animal body,

First come the desires, the urges, the nervous energy, the arrogance,

Then the actions to satiate them, fun at first, weary later on, as new and new urges are born, there seems no end,

Out of the weariness comes the stress, dissatisfaction, and the unrest that don’t let u sit any more.

Then comes the search, the search for the unknown, the unnamed, till the lights becomes the shapes.

And then, then when the disciple is ready, the master will come along.

This is the way of the soul, the journey to its destiny, where it belongs to.

Alas, no short cut, even with laying down the suit and taking up the monk robe prematurely. Till the partial satiation of the urges, the robe is no armour against them.

We all are beings of the same light, and to that light we all shall return. Unknown to us, we2 all are moving through the voyage, slowly and continuously, at different stages. You are not the same person, you were 20 years back. In hindu ‘Ashram’ system, the life is of four stages, ‘Brahmcharya’, ‘Grihastha’, ‘Vanprastha’, ‘Sanyas’. This is the same natural sequence of life and shows that even the very spiritually inclined hindu way of life, follows this natural way.

No need to worry, no gain of the hurry. Just stay on the  path, and all will happen in due course, just as surely as  the seed becomes the fruit. No need to run away from the world, it is very real and this world is the way though. One cannot cross the river by avoiding the water.

 Just the awareness of the journey will take you from the beginning to the end. Just the slightest awareness in the back of the mind, a reminder to self once in a while, that life is more that daily bread and butter, ‘will bring the most minor changes gradually in the thinking and the approach.

Slowly, step by step, gradually, in the natural way.

This is the Tao.

Tao of emptiness!- An empty cup can hold anything!

Each of us is filled with countless unspent possibilities.Each of us is gifted with a unique gifted mind, no lesser than any other.
Every mind is unique due to its special skill where it excels and gifted because any average human can attempt and accomplish learning any skill to an average level. Yes, I may not do everything in an extraordinary way, yet I can do everything to an average level and excel in some of them.
If this is true, why we fail or do not try.

Because we are  filled with fears of failure. We are fill of self-imposed limitations. Yes the only limitations we have are those we have put in. The questions come to ourself like, "How can I? I have never done it!" "I simply can't.This is not my thing. How can I play a  guitar? I am a mechanic."

Empty yourself of the above. Get rid of fear of failure and what others think, its immaterial. Accept  that you may fail the first few times. That is how everything is learnt.  Could you ever learn  bicycle, if you never fell, if you never tried due to this fear.

In the end you can  be anything you want to, a painter, writer, engineer, economist, histroian, social scientist, singer, anything just name and you can be all and yes together. Simultaneously you can be all, without being a Genius. Those we call genius were actually the people who knew the above pseudo-limitations. They were never afraid of failure.  Even Edison tried a particular  experiment in 300 ways without disappointment, because every failure made him nearer to success.

Forget your limitation, your self cross-questions, fears of  failures and peer. Throw all these phantoms into the trash and you will win in whatever you try.

Be empty of all fixed notions, be empty like a cup, because an empty cup can hold anything, while a filled cup can't receive a single drop.

This is the Tao of emptiness!

Tao of emptiness!

Bamboo is the strongest timber per unit weight, why? Answer- Emptiness
Bamboo is the most flexible amongst all trees and thereby survives the strongest storm, why? Answer- Emptiness
Bamboo makes the flute, the most melodious music, why? Answer- Emptiness

Bamboo is even regarded as the ideal behaviour model. As bamboo has upright, tenacity and hollow heart, people endow bamboo with integrity, elegance and plainness though it is not physically strong. Just as a bamboo is hollow-hearted, one should open his heart to accept anything of benefit and never have arrogance or prejudice.

Be empty like bamboo, bereft of all biases, fixed notions, self imposed limitations.  Leave the burden of past behind. Forget the  unfulfilled aspirations of next 30 years. Be in the present and do what comes your way with involvement, diligence and beauty. Even the journey to the ends of earth completes step by step. Every step counts. Remember the journey is more fruitful than the end.

Be natural, spontaneous, simple yet strong, plain yet deep. humble yet filled with divine music and wisdom.

Be empty, be like the bamboo.
This is the Tao of emptiness.

Tao of surrender.

मनवा  मेरे  तू  क्यों इतना  घबडाता ,

जब  तेरा  है  मालिक  भाग्यविधाता 

क्यूँ  चिंता  तुझे  कल - परसों  की ,

क्यूँ  प्लानिंग    है  तेरी  बरसों  की ,

जब  अंतर्मन  में  तू  भी  ज्ञाता ,

हर  कण  प्रभुइछा  से  ही हिल  पाता.

कल  क्या   होगा  परसों  क्या  ये  तो  पहले  से  ही  तय  है ,

किस  और  गिरेगा  पासा  इस  बार , ये  भी  अदि  से  निश्चय  है 

छोड़   दे   चिंता , छोड़   गणित ,

बस  विश्वास  तू  कर   अडिग , अमित 

मत  लड़ो  हवा  से , तैर  मत  विपरीत  बहाव 

ठहर  इक  पल  समझ  हवा   को  ,

उपयोग  करो   विपरीत  दशा  भी , यही  सिखाये  हमें  है  ताओ

Tao of the self!

आह जिसकी जुस्तजू आवारा रखती है तुझे ,

वो राह तू,  रहबर भी तू, राही भी तू, मंजिल भी तू.

Tao of total surrender

Manwa mere tuu kyun itna ghabdaata,

jab tera hai maalik bhaagyavidhaata

kyun chinta tujhe kal- parson ki,

kyun planninng hai teri barson ki,

jab antarman men tu bhee gyaata,

har kan prabhuichha se hil paata.

Kal kya hoga parson kya ye to pahle se hi tay hai,

kis or girega pasa is bar, ye bhi adi se nishchay hai

chhod  de  chinta, chhod  ganit,

bas vishwaas tu kar  adig, amit

mat lado hawa se, tair mat vipreet bahao

thahar ik pal samajh hawa ko,

upyog karo  vipreet sthiti bhee, yahi sikhaye hamen hai tao

Tao of forgiving!

Do not ignore a single quarrel, a single argument, one complaint, one grievance, as it all keeps adding up, one by one, silently, overloading your subconscious, till it becomes lethal.

All thoughts, experiences, all pass through the lane of the conscious and settle in the subconscious, forever.

Imagine, a town getting settled at the rate of our thoughts. Soon it will be exploding. Similarly, if not protected by the subconscious, the conscious would fuse, burn out.

Still, this transfer is not one way. What goes in, also keeps coming out, in form of dreams, memories etc. The recurrence is also in form of stress, panic, anxiety. This is the process of genesis and multiplication of stress and stress generated above problems which push the man sometimes to the limit of the chasm, and unfortunately sometimes beyond. .

The way to protect oneself from the above and thereby remain happy and calm a check-post needs to be put up, allowing any thought, memory etc only after they are received in a positive form. In other words, take every person and event in a positive way, take a broad view and forgive all. Even the small things.

Keep forgiving, keep forgetting, keep the garbage out.

Save yourself from the otherwise impending avalanche of pain, anxiety etc, the breakdown.

Whenever a bad memory comes up, take the above approach. Start this today and soon your life, moods, all will take the way upwards.

Do this and be all you want to be, all you can be, and all you are destined to be.

A troubled, loaded, worried mind can not climb a single step. Therefore, Unload your worries, lighten yourself, be calm, be happy and step on the path of Tao, because the Way of lightening is also the way of enlightening.

Forgive and be happy, live longer and better, grow spiritually. This is the tao of forgiving!

The spirit of water...

The spirit of water is the true tao

it flows spontaneously, where it meets the slope,

no inertia, no resistance, no momentum, all spontaneous,

the softest of all, offers no resistance yet cuts into the even the hardest,

the origin of all life, the three thousand beings,

water is the source of all life, supports all life, as is tao,

no colour of it own, takes the colour of all, yet the spirit of water retains,

no odour of its own, takes the odour of all, yet the spirit of water retains,

no flavour of its own, takes the flavour of all, yet the spirit of water retains,

listen to the poetry of the rain, the song of the waterfall, the music of the ocean, listen to what is tao,

dip your hand in the flow, close your eyes and feel , what is tao , rushing through your fingers,

see the rush of the river, and you see nothing but the tao,

water is the true spirit of tao, tao is the true spirit of water,

Understand the spirit of water and understand the spirit of tao

know the spirit of water and know the secret, know the spirit of tao.