Gratitude as a frame of mind enables us to appreciate all we have, be positive and better adjusted to our lives.
When eating a morsel of rice and dal , one is recalled of the farmer ploughing his field, truck drivers ferrying his harvest, flour Mills, shopkeeper, the cook who prepared the delicious and nutritious delicacy, the house help who is going to clean up after and keep the kitchen running by his contribution and gratitude towards all. Yes they all did for money, but how would we do without their effort. Fair exchange, that's how the world is balanced.
The electricity we get from effort of coal miners, truck drivers, train drivers , power plant workers and so many others, and then we enjoy AC, TV, Internet, and all appliances.
The traffic cop stands all day in extreme heat, cold, rains, smoke to facilitate our faster travel to save our time and energy.
Cops who forgo their festivals and family time so that we have ours, safely.
So many people, who contributed to my car from steel mills, mines, engineers, and workers.
People who developed medicines and made them available to us and take our care which may not be palatable even to ourselves at times.
The people who go door to door and collect garbage for disposal, as they keep our house , colony and city clean, beautiful and healthy.
Gratitude to God , destiny, universe and all beings for everything in our life viz family , a living , lifestyle.
One feels gratitude for so many things,
To God , for being alive, in health and well, much better than many others. Even if he has one eye , he is infinite time more blessed than a blind person. He may have other physical problems but at least not fatal ones, many are illfortuned to have those with very less time on their hands.
Yes, one doesn't have everything but then no one has. Even the people on facebook who seem to have it all, but you dont know their pains and problems so in ignorance of that you needlessly condemen and torture yourself for having lesser than them.
In fact there shall always be 1000 times or more of people who have less than you than people who have more than you. The figure that only 2.5% people come in income tax bracket itself is a tell tale.
So should one be sad that he has less than 1 lac people or with gratitude than he has more than 100 Crores.
Also if one has more than necessities he already has more than sufficient.
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Gratitude for life, health, youth, time, family etc also makes us appreciate the value of these things we generally take for granted and enjoy them more.
Living with gratitude cultivates a more mature, evolved, understanding of life and a better adjusted personality , a good company with good vibes.
Koans in Zen are riddles that may seem weird. But after mediatating on its meaning after some time one realizes its truth and realizes much about true nature of reality.
While its prohibited to share meaning of a koan as unravelling is a personal evolving experience, as an exception a koan and its meaning is as follows,
" A man climbs a tree to taste its fruit, the branch cracks and now he is hanging towards the valley with a lion there looking up at him and also a cobra coming toward him on the branch. He picks a fruit from the branch he is hanging on , taste it and is shocked to find how tasty it was."
Meaning: In the moment of realization of certainty of close death, in that moment of expanded awareness and concentration one realizes the value of life and all we experience in life.
But then its already too late.
A better way of living: A mindful and meaningful living and a mind frame of gratitude facilitates that greatly.
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