I have been thinking ...

A Nice 'Doha' from kabir. He is amazing ..

I have been thinking ...
I have been thinking of the difference between water
and the waves on it.
Rising, water's still water,
falling back, it is water,
will you give me a hint how to tell them apart?

Because someone has made up the word"wave,"
do I have to distinguish itfrom water?
There is a Secret One inside us;
the planets in all the galaxies pass through his hands like beads.
That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes.

Attitude towards work

Today while I was crawling through the web, somehow reached a good spirited spider's den. There was a beautiful article from which, I would like to quote about attitude towards work

Three stonecutters were engaged in erecting a temple. An HRD Consultant asked them what they were doing. The response of the three workers to this innocent-looking question is illuminating: -

'I am a poor man. I have to maintain my family. I am making a living here,' said the first stone-cutter with a dejected face.
'Well, I work because I want to show that I am the best stone-cutter in the country,' said the second one with a sense of pride.
'Oh, I want to build the most beautiful temple in the country,' said the third one with a visionary gleam.

Their jobs were identical but their perspectives were different. What the Gita tells us is to develop the visionary perspective in the work we do. It tells us to develop a sense of larger vision in our work for the common good.

About a Good Article
Today I happen to read an article by Margaret Wheatley. In the article she explains how our disturbances are actually gift to us. The link to the article is http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/pleasedisturb.html. Would like to Quote a paragraph from it

"In graduate school, I had one professor who encouraged us to notice what surprised or disturbed us. If we were surprised by some statement, it indicated we were assuming that something else was true. If we were disturbed by a comment, it indicated we held a belief contrary to that. Noticing what disturbs me has been an incredibly useful lens into my interior, deeply held beliefs. When I'm shocked at another's position, I have the opportunity to see my own position in greater clarity. When I hear myself saying "How could anyone believe something like that?!" a doorway has opened for me to see what I believe. These moments of true disturbance are great gifts. In making my beliefs visible, they allow me to consciously choose them again, or change them."

A Nice article worth read.

A Different view of suffering

We all have been suffering all along our life in one way or the other. I am speaking about the common man and excludes the blissed souls, which are consciously in a much elevated state. But I think, the suffering has to be seen as an opportunity to realize ourselves. I mean to say that, if we listen to our inner voice in finding the solution to the day to day problems, the effort taken itself is going to elevate our self to be in a better conscious state. The very unselfish decision which we take in solving the problem will help us know more of our self. Each problem we face in life is a divine opportunity to understand our self, the God in us. Its a chance to converse with God. The most important lessons of life are learnt during the toughest times of our lives. On the other hand, if we manage the the problem, with our selfishness, we are moving in the reverse direction. We are turning our back to an opportunity which existance has given us to be a better human being. In doing so, we are adding more misery to us. So the choice is ours...

Few heart beats of Khalil Gibran...
"You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen -- the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives -- I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, "Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves." Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me. And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman." I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman. And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief."

The Song Of My Current Heart Beat...

I was always in search of the depth of silence in my self..On my way, I conversed with lots of superconcious souls...They showed me a number of different directions...and reminded me, its upto me to choose whichever direction I would like or I can choose my own direction...But in any case, which ever direction I follows, its going to be a totally new and different experience. The most adventerous part of the journey is that, there is absolutly no short cuts or no vehicles, but to walk and walk and walk alone... I cannot take anybody with me in this journey, not because I dont wish, but because its not allowed...But it seems its a wonderful journey...the inner journey...Every moment will be joyous...Every beat of the heart will be a new experience.. And every experience is an invitation for the awakening....