NOW - is the time to do it!!!

and start living .............

Take a sheet of paper.

Jot down ten must-do's before entering the grave.

Every time I thought I couldn't take more, I actually found myself capable of taking more. Every trying situation only bettered my responses and increased my levels of tolerance and endurance. I need to know my limits correctly to actually know what and how much I am capable of!

'All that is seen is unreal' is just a teaser that talks of how we are driven by our eyes and what we say as 'see'. But, the actual scope of this sentence is 'All that is experienced through the sense organs are unreal'.

Coming to your question sonia - and i am sure is the question of many others too - 'How can i be insensitive to all that I see assuming that this is unreal?'

First and foremost - the sentence never meant 'All that you see is unreal so be insensitive'. It meant 'the understanding that comes with the sense organ - eyes and all that it perceives is unreal' and i have explained that with the examples. If I see someone crying, I immediately think they are suffering. Seeing them crying is not unreal - it is happening, but it is the presumption that they are suffering is or may be wrong. They can be crying out of joy - immense joy too! But, that thought is the or may be not even the last thought that comes to me!

Situation is real - happening is real - but the understanding that comes with seeing this situation / happening is unreal!

This sentence has depth that can't be explained in few lines.....flow with it and think about it....meaning will unfold on its own.......slowly over the years maybe, but it will....

When a person understands it the way i meant it or as it is, then he/she doesn't become insensitive to situations - on the contrary, one becomes sensitive to situations and handles them with lots more love and compassion, but with the understanding that the suffering is totally based on ignorance and nothing but ignorance and will work to remove it and not attend to the situation topically.....that's all...

it's like when we see a child fall down or lose a toy crying, we cuddle the child, explain that all will be fine soon, etc., but with the understanding that all this is a passing phase in growing and crying over a toy is a redundant thing to do...we talk to the child at his level but with our understanding and not losing our balance of mind over this issue.....we want the child to come out of the pain yet we ourselves don't suffer with the child.......inspite of loving him completely......

All that is seen....

One liners are not the statements which should be agreed/disagreed at face value.

Their purpose is so very different!

They are the brain-teasers – in other words they should be chanted and applied at almost every situation and understood from that point of situation and time…then meaning unfolds differently (as said by b.singh in one of the comments section) in different situations….it means different too at different points of time…….as you play with these sentences and use them as ‘tag liners’ / ‘pauses’ / ‘reminders to get connected with the absolute Truth or Self’ meaning unfolds layer by layer and then we taste what is called as satori by Zen – specks of enlightenment.

Always remember – before the absolute enlightenment happens many small enlightenments enroute……. Taste it, experience it and enjoy it…..

One of the liner is explained with just 3 examples. But it’s scope is so vast that just this sentence can remove our ignorance and give us absolute clarity of thought in every subject provided we apply it religiously everywhere……

All that is seen is not real..

We are guided by our sense organs and Eyes is one such sense organ that makes maximum effect on our psyche. At every such moment, am I aware of the Truth?

For eg: some Stars that are seen every night and enjoyed are dead long back. Others are so many light years old that they must have shrinked drastically or moved away from where they seem to be to our eyes. In short, what we see don’t exist NOW as I see them or in other words they don’t exist the way I presume them to.

Sun rises in East and sets in West – This is the most accepted presumption (like many others too!) but does the SUN ever RISE or SET – NO!. but we SEE it rising and setting and think it to be true though proved that it doesn’t happen.

We celebrate at birth and cry and fret and fume at death - but both these events don't happen in real sense or the way we understand them or deal with them or the way we experience them....Soul never takes birth nor dies - yet we talk of both these events as a day to day happening - moreover, we say or feel sorry if anyone 'dies' and are ever running from death when that is the only reality that happens to us every moment of our life.....So, the Truth is ...

We SEE what we want to Believe. In other words our mind collaborates with our senses to conjure up the image that fits it’s fancy. Hence all that is seen is not real!

EVERY ONE KNOWS ABOUT ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL WHO INVENTED THE TELEPHONE, BUT HE NEVER MADE A CALL TO HIS FAMILY. BECAUSE, HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER WERE DEAF. THAT'S LIFE " Not every good that you do may be of use to your near and dear, still do it" .

Forget about the unseen as of now! Seek and understand all that is seen!

Understand and then love all that is seen! Love everything for what it is!

Said a blade of grass to an autumn leaf "You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams."
And the leaf said "You are low born and hence can't tell the sound of singing"
Then the autumn leaf lay down and slept and when spring came she was a blade of grass..
And then when the leaves were falling all over her she said " O these autumn leaves! They make such a noise! They scatter all my winter dreams.."

It's so easy to mess up with one's memory!

Am I asking the question from the centre of wanting a solution or from the centre of belief that says “This is how it ought to be in the first place”.?

All that is seen is unreal!

I had a date with MYSELF today.... Did you?

Every denial has proved to be the best of my gifts in life - always.....

Look within.