Water Water Everywhere but not a Drop to Drink

I have read, understood, made notes of all the wisdom in books but the same damn wisdom I am not able to live!

In one of the Vipassana lectures Goenka ji explains there are 3 types of wisdom and with varying impact on life. In order of hierarchy of impact these are:

1. Shrutpragya or Wisdom acquired through reading or listening wise thoughts 
2. Chintan-Pragya or Wisdom acquired through thinking and analyzing whatever was heard or read
3. Bhavanamayi Pragya or Wisdom acquired through experience

That's where the struggle is reading all the great thinkers in Twitter and using intellect to like a certain level of knowledge that is easy but to imbibe these in life, making this part of experience is what is a real struggle.

With all the knowledge dissemination through internet we have a generation of wisely informed people but with huge gap in practiced wisdom...

What we need to do is pick the thought which you relate to and exhibit courage to experience it, making it a part of life!

Damn the habits, fear & procrastination...

We are all the same

The more people I meet, the more I read, I realize we all are same.. the same emotions, the same fears, the same love, the same wants, it is just that the expression of this differs.. the underlying code is the same.. the answers to it differ based on what we conclude of our life struggles .. 

All go through the ups and downs, through their good days and bad days, through moments of elation and moments of sadness, moments of success and moments of failure. All want the same outcome happiness through - being in love with self, feeling secure.

I am saying being in love with self and not necessarily loved by others as I think that is an outcome of being in love with self in the right manner. Narcissist creates a delusion of self love and does not need others and outcome is achieved, most others self love is dependent on if others love, this is how most people are.. Without narcissism if you can come to a state where you feel, you are complete by yourself that is also possible. 

Secure is important as you need to be in the state for a longer duration, not just being there in here and now and worry about future..security brings permanence...

We are all the same and if we collaborate, trust each other, these outcomes can be achieved in a simple manner. Society, its norms like family, festivals, marriage, community are based on these principles..

Wisdom Decoded

Wisdom of living is about achieving a balance, balance tailored to your own unique reality, reality rooted in the 4 dimensions of - emotional (includes relations), physical (including material), intellectual & spiritual. 

Why balance? There are always opposing forces of desire and what you are capable of. You may desire a mansion but you may not be capable of generating that much of capital, you err in balance and you end up moving into dark areas of making money through fraudulent means. This is intra dimension balance. There is another inter dimension where you need to get it right.. You want the mansion and you single mindedly focus on getting the required capital ignoring other dimensions  - emotional,  spiritual; you make a mess out of it and when you have the mansion you have a lot of fear and you are standing alone... 

These 4 dimensions make life, achieving a balance and moving ahead in each is all it requires.

Mind Conflicts

I keep running after the elusive perfect day without any conflicts. But never can have. There are different conflicts which trouble. There is a common pattern in all humans, the underlying theme is of desire vs morality. One major one which I have observed is as follows.

Oh yes you love the woman and want to make love with her right now, gently and truly but then the thoughts of monogamy or your spouse or she has a boyfriend, am I being led by selfish senses and not anything else... Enemy mind says "Control" the other mind says "Let go and love"... and life goes on.. there are more conflicts this is one.