Man has to blossom.
- Bud which has not yet blossomed Individuality.
- Even after blossoming, remaining scentless Man's personality.
- Man blossoming as God A great wonder of this world, a surprise, and an achievement.
- A man who has blossomed. His scent will be humanness. His color will be love. And his beauty will be joy.
The Buddha often used to tell his disciples...
'This is the only basic truth. That is that there is no separate 'you' When 'you' itself is not there, You cannot be born or you cannot die.
Beyond all these, when the 'you' itself is not there, how can you suffer...no...You cannot. How can you be caught in attachment? It is absolutely impossible.'
'Are you prepared to understand this?'
After asking this, Buddha will say, 'If you are not prepared to accept this, to understand this for the present, don't try meditation.
Find out the truth if you are truthful or not.
Firstly, meditate on: Why you refuse to accept this? Find the answer!
Subsequent things will happen automatically.
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Fluent English…… Well dressed... A little cash in hand... Ultra-modern culture... Comfortable life...
Based on these, can we say man has progressed? Can we announce that he has obtained what he expected?
Here's a story that can answer that question.
A veterinary research scientist got caught by a group of cannibals.
The group dragged the white man, whom they had caught, into the forest with joyous shouts, to roast him alive and eat him.
With the joy of having got a man for their new feast, they dragged the white man to their leader. There was a tribal sitting close to the leader. As the tribal appeared to have a cleanly cut hair and was dressed as a civilized man, the white man had some hope of escape.
He was thinking to himself, 'In case he knows English, I can escape.'
That tribal spoke to the white man as if he had studied in the Oxford University.
He asked the white man, 'What is your last wish? Tell us. If possible I will satisfy that. Those who are here do not know these formalities.'
The white man asked angrily, 'You have studied in Oxford University, lived in a civilized modern society, have not all these made any change in you?'
For that, shaking his body, he said, 'Why you have asked me this question? Do you know how much I have changed? I don't behave in an uncivilized manner like these people. Even now, after roasting you, I am going to eat you only with a spoon, a knife and a fork. I will not use my fingers. I have changed a lot.'
In the name of civilization, perhaps the outward show might change. There is no relationship between this change and the change that happens within. This story is only to emphasize this point.
It will be very good to say, 'Man should blossom' instead of saying 'Man should change'.
It is easy to make a little change in the way you dress, walk and behave. By this change only our outward appearance might change at the maximum.
Outward change will make only an ordinary mental change. It will not make a change in the quality of a person's inner space.
By change of mind, methods can be learnt to easily face some circumstances. The fun in this is that life always gives new circumstances as gift.
Even after progressing so much in terms of material comforts, technology, wealth, man still struggles to find peace of mind.
If the quality of his inner space becomes total and full, man himself will blossom. One who has blossomed will get that maturity to approach any sort of circumstance easily.
Thinkers of the West always insist on an intellectual approach focusing on the mind, thought and the like. Its effect echoes throughout the world.
What is essentially needed for today's man is only heart-related approach of feelings such as quality and consciousness.
By an intellectual approach, perhaps some changes may be brought about in regard to the personality. Due to such changes we learn
How to do business well?
How to gather crowds for a public speech?
How to attract strangers?
- Replies to such questions may be obtained. That is all.
But, by these things, will the just thirsts be quenched? - If you ask so, psycho-analysts say 'no' to this.
For this also, the solution is only heart-based. That solution is only the blossoming of man's individuality. If the man's justified thirsts of peace of mind, satisfaction and health are to be got in full, individuality should blossom.
For individuality to blossom, this is the solution given by Rishis of Vedic times:
For every thing that happens in life, we should not waste our time in examining it with only a mental orientation, with logic and reasoning. We must begin to respect what is happening inside and outside of us
without estimating or judging. Then we will understand as to how to approach things consciously.
There will be a lot of difference between an ordinary man and a poet in enjoying and appreciating a rose flower, an evening breeze, the moon on full moon night.
You will come to know that as conscious approach increases more and more, the joys around you also increase.
Man should enjoy nature, beauty, comfort and all other things, fully and wholly. For this consciousness, the experiencing energy is required.
The capacity to enjoy and experience any thing fully can be obtained only when the individuality of man blossoms. From today, begin to live consciously. Individuality will easily blossom within you.
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A meaningful incident.
A conversation between a poet and Sakkiya Muni:
'Are you a Mahatma?'
'No'.
'Are you an enlightened person?'
'No.'
'Are you an Avatar?'
'No.'
'Then, who are you? God?'
'Man, living as a man.'
- Man forgetting to live as a man is the root cause for the worldly pain. This is a thing to be rooted out!
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Meditation Chisels. Chisel No. 27.