Hello...

A story is told of a young man who went to his master and pleaded to be taught how to be wise. He kept persisting. So one day the master took him down to the river and when the young man plunged in, the master held the young man’s head under water by his force. The young man struggled for a while to breathe before the master eased his grip on him and allowed him up.

When he asked him what he wanted most when he was under water, he responded that it was air to which the master replied that if he ever wanted wisdom the way he wanted that breath of air, he will, without a doubt find it.

That’s the state of our lives. We desire things but we can never bring ourselves to the point of wanting them so bad or understanding the process of desire. So we stay in the state of pursuit all our lives. We search for everything that we think will give us fulfillment outside of ourselves and when we get there, we find nothing but a temporary thrill.

Life is about becoming and we harbor the urge in ourselves to expand, to become the best versions of ourselves. For a long time, we have translated this urge into wanting more and more material things and so we have kept ourselves for billions of year’s busy gathering more and more stuff to the point of endangering the planet itself. As it is, we have made so much progress on the outside but on the inside we crave love, we crave peace and happiness. These desires keep us on the pursuit. A constant reminder that something is missing in our lives.

 Everything else has changed except for man. Our world is still full of hate, fear, war, corruption and people dying of hunger.

We keep pursuing more and more material things because, the emptiness we feel inside us lingers and we keep thinking that more and more stuff will fill this void. We are out of balance no matter how much we acquire. You could have everything you ever dreamt of on the outside but still not be happy. Why? Because man has the capability to expand not just physically in terms of more materials but also psychologically into a more open minded individual free from the conditionings of his environment. Out of this freedom of mind, the spirit of man is able to rise up without it being restricted to a certain form of belief, idea or structure.  It is the spirit of man that gives the highly sought out happiness that man craves for but most people are out of touch with their inner world.

Life is about balance. Of body, mind and spirit and it’s this balance that we have neglected for such a long time and in that forgetfulness, we have given birth to a world full of suffering.

Man is a psychological being, a thinker.

It’s not what we feed upon physically but what we feed upon mentally that we become. We become the embodiment of what we feed upon mentally because the mind is the link between the body and the spirit.

It’s crucial now that our efforts be geared into understanding ourselves, the way of our thinking and feeling, the movement of our thoughts, our responses; how we conform, through fear to public opinion ,to what others say because who we are, in person, matters more than what we do or what we own.

I have been meaning for such a long time to start this blog. Finally here I am, saying hello in 600 words.