Life 2

    After having to some experience of real life there is no peace of mind seems far away. So I just prefer stillness now. In order to experience stillness we need to empty our minds.

       This  is a very difficult task. It is easily   said, but so difficult to do.  We are always full of so much. We are either full of our own thoughts  or full of our  own prejudices. We are full  of  what  others  have  taught  us  or  what has been filled into our brain. There is no space.  The  mind is filled to the brim.  And  if we  are   filled to the brim, how can we find stillness within us?

         To empty our mind is actually th e process of sadhana. It is important to understand that the one, who is doing the emptying, is himself, made up of what he is trying to empty. 

      Emptying itself is neither a conscious process nor even an unconscious process. ‘Empty itself’ simply means to understand the concept. It is not as if I can sit down in one place – like a technique – and say, ‘I am emptying myself.’ This is not possible. But the concept should be in my mind, so that as I live in this world and communicate with the people around me, the process of emptiness begins to work in me.

       It starts like this, to give an example of what I mean. I see somebody and I am upset with that somebody for something that he has done to hurt me in the past. When I meet that person today, after 10 years, how do I meet him? Am I meeting him with the same feeling I have carried with me all those years? Then I am not emptying myself. On the other hand, I could say, ‘ OK, ten years have passed. Hopefully, this man has changed because minds can change. After all, he only hurt me. Maybe he has not hurt hundreds of other people. 


       So it could be my fault. We only need to keep all these things clear that which thoughts are destroying our stillness. Here I think as per conclusion  stillness is the  only thing which can give us a proper peace of mind.