Suresh,
Reality is ALWAYS enough.
There is NEVER anything lacking in the most fundamental sense since all is
Buddha Nature.
Any action, no matter how common, is the action of Buddha when realized as
such...
Edgar
On Nov 19, 2012, at 7:22 AM, SURESH JAGADEESAN wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am sometimes feeling we are very artificial, not authentic. Why we
> spend so much of time in thinking, even while taking bath, eating
> food, watching television, even while talking to others, our mind keep
> thinking on the background. Why? Why can’t this mind coincide with the
> activity of the body? This actually means we are only paying little
> attention to what we do? When we will be in full attention?
>
> Only when we do the activities which are more pleased to us, we are
> fully attentive, even those are little less than full attention. Just
> see what is to be attentive to the present moment.
>
> When you write or for that matter anyone who writes alternative to my
> views, I am tempting to answer back. Why this temptation? Keep
> thinking what to answer or how to answer. Is it not waste of time for
> me?
>
> But it seems I subtly love this. Hence I write back. This writing
> seems more important than whatever is present in front of me. My son
> is asking a question, but I am not interested I just answer something,
> and keep thinking about a reply for any mails which are contradictory
> to my view. I am needed for my children, for my wife and for my
> employer and colleagues, who are nearby me. Who are these forum
> members? Why should I think for them? You first start as
> entertainment, thereupon, it takes your full time, is it not nonsense?
>
> When I cannot change myself, (my habit of continuous thinking, which
> causes lots of hindrances to me on every moment, still I forcibly
> think with all my energy, why?) how can I change anybody? When I am
> not able to influence my near ones, how can I change unknown people?
>
> Why would we like others to change according to our wish? Let them go
> on wrong path or right path what it is got to do with me?
>
> Why do we label certain things are right and certain things are wrong?
> How do we judge all these?
>
> Certainly I judge based on my accumulated knowledge. Similarly every
> one accumulates knowledge, so everyone is judging everyone else. Based
> on my accumulated knowledge I see few others are wrong and few others
> are right. And similarly everyone is doing this exercise. Because of
> this exercise we like some body and we hate somebody. Can we able to
> not to judge others? Because this judgment makes to hate somebody; and
> this hate causes all kinds of wars/fight depend on one’s capability.
>
> I can cease to judge somebody, provided I have no accumulated
> knowledge. Is it possible not to accumulate knowledge?
>
> Knowledge accumulation takes place when we are not paying full
> attention to the moment, what I mean here is we do not understand the
> situation, which we pass through, because our mind is ‘thinking’ on
> which we have no control. And again this thinking is the effect of
> past accumulated knowledge. So what we have to do is, be fully
> attentive to the present moment, whatever the present moment be,
> whether pleasant or unpleasant. This attention will only solve all my
> problems, so no need to prepare for future in terms of thinking.
>
> Can you explain to me what this ‘attention’ is? Don’t refer anything,
> but be attentive and tell me.
>
> Best regards
> Suresh
>
>
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> J.Suresh
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