Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Achieve Peace

A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires - that enter like rivers to the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still - can alone achieve peace, and not a man who strives to satisfy these desires.
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  1. Growing and Vinning29/6/10 04:44

    This one is just why I think too frequent change and too much change is not good.

    Change with the objective of attaining the core need of peace and happiness is easily achieved when they are still or less trubulant.

    Just like in meditation where we try to remain still and focused. It could be argued that we are meditating even when we focus on the work we are doing, but greater focus is achieved by been still and stable. : )

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  2. Growing and Vinning29/6/10 04:55

    hehehe,, this is also the argument made by my dad. Saying that if you are married automatically all kinds of stability will come. Right now been single will expose you to all kinds of exciting adventures, temptations, experiences that make you want to go on more adventures and excitement. But once you take on the responsibility of a family. Your whole thinking process will change.

    This preached in a big way in the Ramayana. To me Ramayana is more a story presentation by a Writer Valmiki, on how to go about leading an ideal life, with morals, responsibilities, duties, ethics, and facing many other normal day dilemmas and a philosophical angle to them all virtues and evils.
    Again with the intention of leading a stable life filled with happiness.

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  3. salvadorka29/6/10 05:50

    I guess with setting up a family there is gonna be a lot of uncertainty as well but in different ways. Because it will make your life completely different, definitely not secure. I don't believe in security. You never know what will happen in the next moment.

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  4. Growing and Vinning29/6/10 06:04

    True we never know what will happen in next moment. But we all do plan to do something and do things in our daily life.

    The marriage thing is more related to state of mind. As I explained in terms of more focused on living life daily than going out for excitement and adventure.

    Married people achieve a kind of stability because of circumstances. They have to control themselves and circumstances does not allow them to do lot of exciting, adventures stuff that single people do. Their circumstance makes them remain focused on their daily life and commitment to family. Hence the possibility that they are as a larger context much more stable and in many cases happier.

    It is also like they have lesser influence from external factors that destabilize their inner peace.

    Even single people maybe stable and living a happy life by been single. But we as human beings have some biological needs that should be taken care of by a certain time. And that again leads to another whole sequence of running around.

    We are not like the animals who are seasonal driven in our urges. ; )
    Thou society seems to want us to do it as per certain age and dates.

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  5. salvadorka29/6/10 22:04

    Yeah all should come naturally with the evolution of each person's life. For someone it is earlier, for someone later.

    I think the married life is actually full of excitement, mainly with kids. You are running around like daily marathon with playing, washing, cleaning, caring, all that... there is not even time to think about anything. Much more exciting then any other phase of life I guess hehehe.
    I think that is why God came witht he idea of two people raising children because it is too much of excitement for one person hehehe.

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  6. Growing and Vinning30/6/10 04:39

    hehehe,, married life is full of excitement. I like your way of visualizing it as daily marathon.

    I totally agree, that there is a need for two people raising family. But kids I think women are better at that than men. hehehe. Only a woman can have the patience and ability to handle the kids with patience, men just get angry and shout hehehe.
    Thats why kids rather prefer to say "mama" as the first word than papa. ;)

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