On Aug 24, 2009Prasad, ijourney Photo Editor wrote :
I travel alternate weeks. Sometimes, I travel within US or India but at least once a month, I am on long flight from one end of the world to another. Then I live in a hotel room or somebody’s house for a day or two and move again. I have reduced my baggage from two suitcases to one and now to carry on and a back pack. I leave some clothes in my parents house in India and some others in my house in California. Over time, I use less and less of what I have as possessions but miss them even less. I used to carry my computer, camera equipment and other stuff that I worked on for a while — in my backpack all the time. Now, I am able to walk out without any of them and while I still miss them once in a while, I can get along just fine.
What the reading from Bhikku brought to my attention is that more I let go, more I free I am. Less I carry, less I need. I used to depend on my past, my credentials, my articles, tools, photos etc. etc. Over time, I am recognizing that it is really ‘baggage’ from the past. More I get attached to it, more I want become dependent on it. In that process, I lose. I lose the present moment. I lose relationships because I am so caught up in images, commitments, expectations and standards. Teaching awareness, I am lost in knowledge. Rarely aware. Rarely mindful being full of mind.
Then it stuck me. I am aware now and empty of thoughts — no past, no future. NO Prasad, no others. Just being here. Just observing. No decisions to keep or take. No choice as well. Just aware.
Did you experience it yourself? Tell me about what you are keeping and what you are deciding...
On Aug 24, 2009 Prasad, ijourney Photo Editor wrote :
I travel alternate weeks. Sometimes, I travel within US or India but at least once a month, I am on long flight from one end of the world to another. Then I live in a hotel room or somebody’s house for a day or two and move again. I have reduced my baggage from two suitcases to one and now to carry on and a back pack. I leave some clothes in my parents house in India and some others in my house in California. Over time, I use less and less of what I have as possessions but miss them even less. I used to carry my computer, camera equipment and other stuff that I worked on for a while — in my backpack all the time. Now, I am able to walk out without any of them and while I still miss them once in a while, I can get along just fine.
What the reading from Bhikku brought to my attention is that more I let go, more I free I am. Less I carry, less I need. I used to depend on my past, my credentials, my articles, tools, photos etc. etc. Over time, I am recognizing that it is really ‘baggage’ from the past. More I get attached to it, more I want become dependent on it. In that process, I lose. I lose the present moment. I lose relationships because I am so caught up in images, commitments, expectations and standards. Teaching awareness, I am lost in knowledge. Rarely aware. Rarely mindful being full of mind.
Then it stuck me. I am aware now and empty of thoughts — no past, no future. NO Prasad, no others. Just being here. Just observing. No decisions to keep or take. No choice as well. Just aware.
Did you experience it yourself? Tell me about what you are keeping and what you are deciding...