Saturday, March 19, 2016

Your mind must focus on the present moment



When your mind is not able to identify any objects  with respect to its intrinsic value or is unable to recognize the same, you can understand that your thoughts are not  clear at that particular moment. You are not in a position to take any decisive role.  Thoughts only provoke actions through your mind. In some other situation, your mind  become sedate taking no action, but that does not mean that  you are not an intelligent person. Particularly, this stage happens   when you sit in meditation and your mind is no-mind. You are not bothered about your surroundings. You may not be able to achieve this stage easily, but when you practice the meditation continuously, you may reach no-mind state. For many people, mind will always dance through allurement of provocative thoughts to hug various objects and will be very greedy to get those things.  These types of thoughts are known as polluted thoughts.  To get rid of these provocations, you have to take the route of meditation, which only calm your mind, and your mind will not be crowded with negativities. If you can stop these negative thoughts at least eighty percent of the time, which make you run behind non-realities, the condition of your mind will be termed as  nearly perfect maintaining a harmonious life.

We have a tenacity to ponder on the events of the past on which you have no control except to learn from your mistakes or on the happenings, which are going to take place in the future and there also, you have no control. These thoughts of the past when drag your mind, you don’t achieve any tangible results.  On the contrary, these thoughts lead you in an utter confusion and you become gloomy, despondent and restless.  Of course, some of the best thoughts  of the past may make you happy, but the same is ephemeral. Instead of getting bogged down with the thoughts of the past, you lose the fragrance of the precious moment of the present.

Further, we waste precious time on futuristic thoughts, most of which have no relevance to the present moment.  Based on these thoughts, we spread the wings of our mind in the fantasies and we love to stay in the imaginary world.  In this way, we face the possibilities of losses in every aspect of life. Had we not come under the influence of futuristic thoughts of good things to happen and instead accept the present moment; we could be able lead a more meaningful living. These two past and the future always make us to walk in a dark forest and not getting  any exit from the present constraints and opportunities.  Mostly, the past is made up of dead sequences.  If you like to retrieve those sequences, you allow yourself to be like  dead.  We do this when engage ourselves in unproductive work and wasteful energies.  Pondering on these issues would only fetch regrets.  The more you indulge in these activities, the more you become unsuccessful in life.  When you engage yourself with the negative thinking of the sordidness of the past, you will be wandering without any ambition. This will  also provoke you to think for fancied future unnecessarily and failure to achieve the same will lead you to frustration, unnerving hopes and endless unrealistic expectations. 

Our mind is sometimes in no-mind zone, even without the influence of meditation. We should not consider that phase  is not rattled with the desire of materialistic comforts of objects. The mind, when it is not preoccupied with the worldly affairs and daily rituals which exist right in front of us can chose its own course of action to drag either in the past and the future thoughts.  These thoughts may give you a soothing feeling and you would like to dip into the same, ignoring the precious moment of the present.  This soothing feeling may be enjoyable for the time being, but definitely it will bring unpleasant hopelessness in the immediate future.  Knowing this well, we still plunge into these thought patterns. To overcome this state of mind, you have to sit in meditation to have the clarity on your  thoughts and control your mind.  Because of this, the great sages advise to live always in moment to moment.  They also suggest to engage mind to live in the present.  As per them, we must completely reject the past. We should also renounce the future. This state of mind is known as no-mind. The content of the present moment  after being detached from all relationships with the past and the future is the absolute fullness of divinity. It is not that you cannot reach this stage.  If you continue to practice the above techniques, you can do so.  You can experience the sacredness of the present when you live in the present moment. To live in the present, forgetting the past and the future is almost like obtaining Moksha.  This is another way of getting yourself involved in meditation.  You have to seek this stage as early as possible in your life.  No one can provide you or train you to achieve this stage. Each person is to try hard to reach there by his own efforts, dedication, determination and perseverance.  If you think that someone will help you, the same will be a fallacy.  Your guru or your friend or your teacher can guide you, but living in the present without bothering about the past and the future is wholly your responsibility.  How you do; you have to decide.  But it is  sure that one must live in the present moment for living a meaningful life.

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