Your resentment and misery is a source of entertainment for you!
Photo and post copyright Suresh Gundappa 2008
Just take a honest look at yourself, How many times in a day you think about your past and things which went wrong, injustice done to you by life, Bad luck you suffered, relationships which didn’t work out etc etc.
Your mind is constantly occupied with the same resentment and misery you have been carrying it for ages. You have gone over it thousand times but you still think about it all the time.
What can you do about it? actually nothing, other than thinking about it. Your growth towards happiness is chained by resentment and regrets. You are carrying large boulder of past.
You got to stop this.
You love entertaining yourself because mind thrives on such a misery. Your only opium of life is thinking about your past and your bad luck in life.
Forgive, Forget and Accept life in its deepest present moment. that’s the only way to remove your chains.
if you ask me why laughing is such a joyous phenomena that’s because when you laugh you don’t think. You just laugh, you just stay at the present moment. Love, orgasm, compassion, prayer all are ways towards present moment experience.
Unless you drop past, there is a very little possibility your future may be drastically different. Once you become light on heart then you will see different possibilities for yourself. There is a good chance that you will have lot of energy available to you to create better future.
Whenever you notice entertaining yourself, STOP IT, just STOP it.
This is a disease. Just move on, be grateful to thousand other things you have today and Love yourself for whatever you are and whatever you are not!
The act of creativity with artists, painters, photographers is fulfilling because for any such activity you need a fresh womb. fresh moment, Fresh present moment awareness. that’s why hobbies are so much close to your heart.
This existence is neither made of past nor future. It’s available in this present moment and that’s why it is called “present” moment or you can call it “gift”.
Love
Suresh
Hello Suresh ,
A great thought . An awesome picture with it . A Perfect post .
Namaste Suresh,
Your work always gives me a nice light .
Allow me to say -in this picture the word photgraphy is mistyped.
I hope that a friend from far away can write like this.
Love,
Miklós
Thanks Miklos, I have corrected the same, Usually my friend Sanjay http://msanjay.weblogs.us who points out such mistakes to me. but looks like he is on a new job so i have been making few mistakes lately.
This really spoke to my heart and hit home. I hope i can truly give up this thought process that I have held onto for over 30 years. Your photography is always beautiful.
The photo looks fine, the words sounds painfully- they both are grand. That’s the awesome picture of truth in view and word.
Thank you, Be well my friend.
WOOOOW!!!!
You have a great site. It is just great.
Keep up the excellent work.
Lovely photos. Meditative…
The captured photography is really so cute and beautiful that I couldn’t stop expressing it here. I think we need artists, photographers and such other creative people so that they bring alive the beauty of nature and wonder to our eyes, which otherwise many times we miss or pass blind eyes on such beauties and spots even though many time we happen to see them directly.
Reflections are important. If we do not accept that we had made a mistake, well keep making the same over and over. The first step to correcting a mistake is to admit it. When we think of the past, we think of all the relationships, the way we have managed them, the way it should have been managed etc. Allow some time to think and reflect, that will point out the mistakes to us, if we want to see, that is. Sometimes we might be cribbing about the fault being on the other side (often), but after a while and doing some good reflection, we come to accept our mistakes too. This takes a little time. Long time for some people.
Destination Infinity.
nice work, brother