Love and Attachment

Love is an unconditional selfless state of being. Love has no desires nor expectations whereas attachment is a mental state born out of desires and relationships created in our minds. Our thoughts are constantly filled with images and memories which generate a lot of expectations. We start depending on these expectations for our happiness and well being. We forget that when these so called desires and expectations are not met, all the negative emotions set in. In other words we give rise to fear and anger and finally stress and anxiety.
So, dear friends do think, of those special people, of others, when it is necessary but do not lose your self in their image. This will free us from dependency, expectations, false desires and suffering.

Controlling Emotions

These five steps help keep check on our emotions.

1. Awareness - Being aware of the emergence of the finest of emotions which if unchecked lead to irritation ,to frustration, to anger, to rage. In other words.. Yes "the storm is about to set in".
2. Acknowledge - Understand and acknowledge the emotion, be responsible for its emergence.
3. Acceptance - Accept the presence of the emotion without resisting it. Resistence helps the emotion grow stronger and spring up later like a volcanic eruption..
4. Ascend - Take a deep breath.. Slowly exhale..Detach from the emotion and it's source. Observe the emotion lose power and dissolve.
5. Attune - Return to the inner centre of peace and bliss.

Faith

Faith is the foundation of our life upon which we work and build. Each of us is endowed with varying degrees of different talents, intelligence, social status and possessions. So why be jealous /envious of another. The focus of good and evil are in all of us. But we must learn and make efforts to free ourselves of the chains of hatred, malice and longing of material things. These talents and gifts carry corresponding responsibilities which we must meet with love in our heart and gratitude for being given an opportunity to serve. Faith combined with good deeds can surmount any obstacle.

Protective shield

Whenever someone sends you a negative message or a critical comment, imagine it comes towards you as a bullet, but one foot away it encounters a protective field made up of your inner soul power. This is the field of protective energy that is strengthened by the power of your inner peace. As the bullet meets the field, it deflects away and fizzles out against the wall. You remain unmoved and untouched. You look just for a second but directly into the eyes of the other and, with a quiet and peaceful smile, you send them a mini bullet of your own, carrying a very clear and compassionate message, which says, "Nice try."

Negative emotions

Anger, rage, frustration- all negative emotions drain us of our energy.
How do any of these emotions creep into our system?
We get upset when others do not live upto our expectations!!!
Stop, think for a moment! Why should he/she live upto our expectations?
Each one of us (souls) believe he/she is doing the correct thing. Therefore if we put ourselves in others' shoes, pause for a moment, we will realise that the opposite person did what he/she thought was correct.
So my friends, whenever you feel any negative emotion brewing, pause and give it a thought. Let the feeling pass. Do not get entangled in it.

How to Escape your Suffering-Blind Man vs the Cripple

There is a famous Indian story about the great battle between the blind man and the cripple .
In a remote village in the outskirts of Punjab there lived 2 sworn enemies. One man was blind and the other was a cripple. They were sworn enemies. No matter what one did, it would upset the other and vice versa. For years this battle raged on and the animosity between them grew fierce and caustic.
During one very hot and dry summer a terrible fire broke out in the village and began consuming everything in its path. The villagers began to flee in fear as there was no stopping the inferno. In the panic, the blind man and the cripple were forgotten and left to fend for themselves.
The blind man did not know which way to go in order to escape the fire, and the cripple, who could see the path to safety, could take no action. So both were stuck.Luckily for them, the desire to live was greater than their hatred for each other, so they decided to work together in order to save their lives. The blind man put the cripple on his shoulders, who then directed him which way to go in order to escape. Thus, working as a team, they were successful and even ended up becoming friends.
Who is the blind man and who is the cripple? The blind man is our mind and the cripple is our heart. What is the fire? The fire is our suffering. The mind is the instrument through which you can move, act — but it is blind, in that it does not know which way to go. It endlessly debates, weighing pros and cons, wobbling between what will be gained and what will be lost if certain action was to be taken. It cannot see how to escape the suffering. The heart, on the other hand, can see clearly the way out, but does not have any means to act. In order to act, it needs the mind. So they need each other. But, more importantly the heart needs to sit on top of the mind, as the cripple sat on the shoulders of the blind man. With the heart leading the way, the mind becomes intelligent. Give the heart its precedence and wisdom will then emerge and guide you safely out of your suffering.

Eerie Silence

Cold, dark eerie night
Not a star visible tonight
O! Look yonder
A silver streak sneaking through a cloud.

Sea scary as the night
O! What a sight
Neither a whimper nor a howl
Nor leaves hustling
Nor owls hooting
An eerie silence sighs in solitude.

Silver streak full of valor
A ball of fire
Defies the cloud
Silent night a glowing
Warmth come alive.

Touch so tender
Raising goose bumps up the spine
Heart beats like no tomorrow
Quivering lips touch to kiss
Locked in eternal bliss.