am experimenting with a zen device of my invention.
focus your mind on little things all through the day.
can you do it? like being totally with your grandchildren?...
now kunhoottan is having his morning siesta and neha is watching pogo. any moment i may have to go to kunhootan's side. any moment i may have to log off and go...
it is like working on a koan. how did you look like before your father and mother were born? you go on thinking over the question and whatever else you do, this question is working on you in the background; it is like the sound of the thamburu in the background as you sing...
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Finding joy in simple things... yes, happiness is the journey, not the destination.
and the journey is happiness; there is no destination. just being here, now. you can hear the humming note of the thampuru in the background, like a plain canvas on to which come on display like strokes of colours from a brush all seven notes of the music around...! (how complicated one can get trying the describe something that cannot be described...in simple words, it is wrong to romanticise babysitting. it is a tough job!)
I had two zen potatoes for a long time:). Untouched the potatoes grew branches and took very interesting shapes and stayed that way for a long time..focus is one thing I lack,(among many other things), mind wanders from one matter to the next always....
Beautiful babies:)
sometimes we have to look at our children to relearn the trick of being focussed. you have a son who had at 19 got a novel published by Penguin. to write such a book working round an overall plot stringing together events require focus and long term concentration. how did he do it? perhaps, if you look back, you too hd this quality when you were his age. take for instance when you were a student...it is only that you have misplaced it somewhere along the way. please spend some 60 minutes or so listening to this talk on 'the secret of concentration' by Swami Sarvapriyananda. ask Arjun too to liten to it. his skills have to be constantly sharpened.
this is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGswR0tMqCM
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