You know; one of the bizarre paradoxes of human existence is this awareness that we can choose to be happy and yet we are mostly unhappy. The reasons are not very far to look at. The biggest negative factor in this story is that when life starts running smooth, when life is beautiful, when life is in cruise control, our intellect tends to go to sleep. We tend to drop our vigilance to life. We tend to drop our attitude to keeping in mind that the rules do not have to be compromised when you are playing the game. Once again, quoting a very, very famous cricketer....( I am very fond of cricket so there are lots of examples of cricket.) there was a legendary Indian cricketer, who was known for his penchant to score hundreds and when he was asked how he could consistently score so many centuries in his career, his reply was an extremely intelligent and pertinent one. He said, every time I touch fifty runs, in my mind, I reset my score to zero. The moment I do that I am able to bring on my concentration back to peak level because when I am starting my innings, I am extremely vigilant.
This is true with all of us. When we want to accomplish something, we are vigilant with all the rules. We will do it right and of course doing it right gives you rewards. Then unfortunately, when the rewards of life start coming in, we drop that vigilance. We drop the guard and then invariably there is pain. This is not to berate you, the objective of sharing this thought is not to make you feel miserable, it is because this is a natural and normal human trend. So if there is pain, then the pain is nothing but a communication by the universe, which is telling you, mate, pay attention. Don't ever be scared of pain, in any format. Pain is simply the world talking to you and saying "jack, you have dropped your guard, you need to just pick it up again." Pain is nothing but the universe guiding you to take action. Move !!! Having understood that, the best way then of course is to negotiate this pain by being vigilant all the time. So if the going is good, don't drop your guard, keep your vigilance up, check the three golden rules of earth at the moment, which are, a) have you been consistently treating all things appropriately? B) Have you been accepting people for what they are? c) Have you been experiencing emotions and are you able to say bye, bye to them without getting married. If you have been doing this consistently correctly, even when the going is good, then obviously pain is not going to touch you at all. Remember emotions will come and go. But emotions are transient in nature, they will come, they will go, don't get married to them and keep your vigilance meter up. Should you keep your vigilance meter in place and then it is possible, it is completely possible to learn with pleasure.
In our human mindset we have all associated pain with learning and that is one of the reasons why if you note, that the first big pain, which came into your life has still not completely left you. I can guarantee that because you have made that pain into your own teacher because that pain has been perhaps responsible for your even listening to this video. I am sure, if you life was on cruise control, you are not going to take these ten minutes and listen to this boring character talking some shit !!! You are not going to do that. But if you are listening to this video, you are looking for an answer. And if you are looking for an answer undoubtedly there is some amount of pain somewhere in the system. Means what? Do you need pain to listen to me ? That is an erroneous association that we have made. We have always converted pain to a barometer, which will help us grow, learn, get detached, become wise and do all the nice, nice things that the great guys speak about but that is our fallacious association, we don't need the pain. So if we can commit to ourselves that on an ongoing continuous basis we will coach ourselves, actually, with these rules; then we can all be truly pain free. Just benchmark it all the time. Make sure you are sticking to the basics. You will never ever have a reason to make pain as your teacher. It is perfectly possible to learn with love and with pleasure, provided your intellect, your wisdom and your awareness, do not go to sleep.
I have always compared the human intellect with the "points man", a person who manages the platforms/lines in the station by changing the tracks for the incoming trains. So, if this person is caught napping exactly at the time the train comes it will keep going on the old track, similarly when our intellect going to sleep, which is like being off guard and we keep inviting repeated cycles of pain. Now, this pain is trying to communicate one story, wake up, become alert, change your response, pull the lever, and you will find the train will move on to a different platform. When the train will move to another track, remain alert because there will be another train coming and you do not want to repeat the same cycle and the same learning in a different format!!
I am sure we have seen this many times before, you have one chronic problem in your life the faces change, perhaps the situation changes but the problem does not change. Initially the problem was your father, now the problem is your boss. Basically none of these is the problem, the problem is your mind and the way you are looking at your life, the rest are personifications, which you are attracting to help you understand your game. So perhaps in life if you want to wake up from the snakes and the ladders that we are all playing all the time, be vigilant, be an aware player, become attuned to the rules, keep your mindset going, and then you will enjoy the snakes and ladder. Remember the snakes will still come. Inherently there is nothing wrong with the snakes because sliding down a snake can be a lot of fun. Remember climbing up a ladder can also be very painful. Understand that, go back to the basics, keep your intellect up and about and life will be an effortless game of snakes and ladder. You know many people have asked me that the guys who designed the snakes and ladder game are actually very sadistic people because invariably the fang of the snake is at 99 or 98, just when you need to go to hundred, but then, which of us stopped playing at hundred? Even when we cracked 100, it was nothing but an ego booster and we put the dice back to zero and started all over again. So why don't we see the snake as a great friend who takes you down before you reach 100 and never takes you back to zero!!! No snake takes you back to zero, just gives you opportunity to continue to play without your ego hitting your head. Relax, chill!!! Enjoy the slide, keep the vigilance, enjoy the game, life is a party, best of luck!!!
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