Change of weather

 

Change of weather

Blessed are we for living in the land called “Bharat”. Wow! What a splendor of weather??!!

The weather is changing from winter to spring and just wow! (here in Hyderabad – India)

Morning dew is still alive…….morning breeze is still carrying mist, chillness and coziness in it and still – the summer has arrived. Not yet in full bloom, but in the late afternoons. Wow – what a mixture of seasons! It looks like “raag kadambam” – simply beautiful…

Just a while to sit in you balcony, stop on your terrace and look around……

Relish what this weather has to offer you……

Be with it – no agenda – no nothing – just savour it – enjoy!

Life is just this – a change so subtle, so beautiful, so sublime that it takes your breath away if you are aware of it.

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# seasonal change, change in life, change is inevitable, facts of life, seasons, weather change, 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2022/09/change-of-weather.html 

Change of weather

 

Change of weather

In Hyderabad (of India) as is in every nook and corner of the world, there is change of weather happening. Couple of days it is hot summer feel and then it rains like never before. Weather is totally unpredictable. It is what it is. We take or leave it! The weather is not going to act to please us and make itself viable to our schedules and tastes.

So it is with life. It happens as it chooses to happen when we are planning other things. The pain is not as much about what is happening as it is about ‘how we expected it to happen’. Because we plan our lives and days, when it doesn’t go that way, we feel let down. We feel enraged. We are depressed. We are sad. We complain. We are angry. We feel cheated.

Think about it! Who promised us ever that ‘Life would be as we plan it’? No one…and yet we PRESUMED IT WOULD! And we are angry, frustrated, depressed that our ‘presumption’ didn’t work out right? Think about that! Sit and meditate on that. Don’t analyse, you wouldn’t get it. Don’t try logic here – you would miss it yet again. Meditate on this.

If and ONLY if you meditate and realize this fact and understand about the ‘presumption’ would you be free from pain of the unexpected.

Bondage or freedom from pain – choice is yours!

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# change, life, seasons of life, ups and downs of life, on permanence, 

also read previous post on this subject : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=On+impermanence 

On cloudy days

 

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On cloudy days

So, see these days as cloudy days. Enjoy the ‘forced leisure’ while it lasts. Put it to good use. Prepare yourself for ‘busy time’ ahead. Strengthen your body and mind. Use every opportunity and time to do as much sadhan as you can. Gather as much energies you can. You’ll go that far as your energies that you’ve accumulated now!

So, as cloudy as our days seem now – believe that SUN shines always! In fact, it shines more brightly after a cloudy day or a rainy day!

So, will our life gather momentum in activity and shift into fast paced life?

Here, fear not, feel not! Dust that depression, disappointments, fears, tension, stress and stain for change is just around the corner!

As they say, the last lap is the most difficult one! So, don’t lose heart just before shift in ‘The Time’!

Get back to regular sadhan.

Get back in shape – body, mind and soul.

Reclaim your strength – body, mind and soul – for the coming time is going to demand that from you.

So, to sum it up, cloudy days are to recoup our strength.

They are to give rest to our soul.

They are so we get connected to our soul.

However, dark cloudy days be, sunny days are bound to come – one way or the other – for sure – Always!

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# cloudy days, good and bad days, bad times, changing times in life, ups and downs of life, phases of life, change is constant, changes in life, seasons of life,

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Further+to+little+things+to+do+during+quarantine 

On cloudy days

 

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On cloudy days

Financial – it is possible that few of you (like me!) don’t have a job or income coming by now. Those who are getting are also probably not happy with their pay-checks. Whatever be the position, all I can say is ‘hold tight and keep healing – light is at the end of the tunnel and we certainly are almost there’!

So, become physically strong to be able to take the work load that’s going to come your way. Take all the rest your body needs now. You’ll not get it later nor can you complain about it then. So, you see Universe doesn’t punish us with these times – though most of us do deserve such punishment for our nature and attitudes! These times is a ‘necessary evil’. It is the much resting required for our body, intellect and soul. We also need to gather our emotions scattered periodically! Look back at your life. Each one had these periods. Some had every 5years and others every 8. That number may vary from person to person. But all had and that is important fact that we can’t overlook. 

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# cloudy days, good and bad days, bad times, changing times in life, ups and downs of life, phases of life, change is constant, changes in life, seasons of life,

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2019/10/whats-inside-you.html

On cloudy days

 

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On cloudy days

Even nature has ‘winter’ when nature goes to sleep. That period of hibernation makes it bounce back with ‘colourful spring’ soon after. Even trees shed their leaves before blooming!!!

Respect these periods of pauses in life. Work on your fear, doubt, tension and need to hurry to next station of life!

It is possible that few of you are going through a lull period of life. It can be any aspect of life – physically due to ailment may be you or your near one – don’t be discouraged. See this as a ‘forced vacation’ given by the Universe to you. I know boredom may bother you. So may be the financial tension. Trust Reiki. Do reiki and relax! Things will work out very soon – very well too!

Emotional – may be one or few of the relationships may be bothering you a lot. Be with it. Do the needed healing for the same. Also become aware of areas you need to heal within. Most of the relationships have these ups and downs period. If it is at the start, well and good. Make the necessary corrections and see the relationship go from bad to good to better to best…right now it may look not worth fighting back. But everyone who had such problem had only come back with ‘thank God, I kept healing and today I am so glad it worked out so good’. Few of you have already experienced that too! To others I say this will turn us into better human being for sure!

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# cloudy days, good and bad days, bad times, changing times in life, ups and downs of life, phases of life, change is constant, changes in life, seasons of life,

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=need+for+pain

Every link has beautiful explanations as the footnote...read them and gain clarity of thought....

On cloudy days

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 On cloudy days

Today, I’ll address just the ‘mood of the day’ part. Even on the days I’ve class or when I was working – be it in office or in marketing or sales, I would still have this mood rule my day. I would take in more work in office and finish it. I would work fast – so..! on road, I would not feel the stress and strain of driving long distances and traffic. I would take in rejections during marketing with a smile. So, I can say for sure – these days were meant for smiles – wherever I had been in life!

So, is this about my likes and dislikes?

Am I talking about how I enjoy certain kind of weather?

What do these days tell us?

·      Slow down! Yes, we lead a disciplined and structure life 9-5 24/7. It is good. But it is ok to be relaxed and enjoy the view once in a while.

·       Life is just not about proving ourselves. It is not about acquiring or possessing something or someone. It is not even about chasing something or someone. It is about ‘being’. Yes, it is about stopping and slowing down a bit to relish what we are holding with us – right here, right now! Yes, we are ‘being in the moment’ and it happens so effortlessly when we just ‘do these little nothings without any agenda or with an eye on returns or targets.

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These days tell us one more important fact of life. They tell us ‘It is in the Nature of things to slow down or have a lull period in life”. Yes, there are going to be those periods of time when nothing seems to move. Just as rest is also equally important part of ‘exercise’, waiting or pause in life movement is also part of the whole movement. That time is for us to recoup our energies – gather ourselves which is scattered during our rush through our driving life. As we rest or slow down, we become eligible and fit enough to take on next stage of life. Then we become ready for some more ‘ups’ of life. There can be no up without a down. So after intense activity life forces us to time of less or inactivity one way or the other.

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# cloudy days, good and bad days, bad times, changing times in life, ups and downs of life, phases of life, change is constant, changes in life, seasons of life,

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=On+disturbances+in+life+and+their+place+in+our+life 

On cloudy days

 

On cloudy days

Yesterday it was cloudy!

Some days are cloudy days. We’ve seen many such ‘wow days’ in the last couple of months.

These days bring ‘a laze around’ attitude with them. These days are meant for gazing at skies or traffic, sipping hot coffee/tea with hot samosas and bajji’s (made by someone else! – I am talking about the houses where there is no house-maid. And the work is to be done by the ‘lady of the house’). and to top it would be soft music at background. That is ‘my idea’ of heaven or ‘perfect world’ as you wish!!

Clothes not yet put for wash. They are piling up! Dishes undone and no routine household work even started – and yet – wow to this day and this ‘whiling away time’.

Entire day passes by reading a novel (maybe the one read and even 10 times already!) What more could I ask?

“Maam, you tho can enjoy maam. We need to work. We have office no maam??” – this is the common response whenever I talk of such days.

Talk about who is blessed – one having a job or one without the one is for another day.

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# cloudy days, good and bad days, bad times, changing times in life, ups and downs of life, phases of life, change is constant, changes in life, seasons of life,

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2019/09/whatever-happens-happens-for-good.html 

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If not a tree at least plant a plant!

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If not a tree at least plant a plant!

Birds build nest in them. We get to hear their stories more. Birds help in pollination. More birds mean good for us there too! This restores ecological balance.

·       We get to enjoy shade during summer and rainy seasons.

·       Our summers become bearable with trees cooling them for us.

·       Greenery around us naturally heals us and with less stress, we find it easy to face ups and downs of life. 

Care to throw few more benefits?

But to enjoy all these benefits we need to plant first. So, let’s take first step towards our better future!

Let’s paint the town green!

Let’s make the air we breathe a little better!

Let’s make a good change!

Let’s plant a tree!

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also read : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=what+is+it+about+being+grateful%3F

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Have you planted a tree? A shrub? 

 

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Same old, same old – Old wine in New bottle! 

One way or the other when people are driving fast and going at high speed in their career, life or karma pushes them or puts them to rest on way or the other. When the going is fast and hectic, the person is all going out! When his work outside is quite a bit done (by way of magniture)**, then the Nature decides he (the person) needs a break to recoup and reassess his priorities in life and sends signals – which like most ‘wise ones’ he overlooks.

Some like Dilip saab learn the right lesson the first time. They know how to navigate the right way and direction, the right speed and with right state of mind in the material world. They realize and accept that it is stupid to go behind ephemeral*** things of the world by burning themselves. They realize that the ‘self’ is above all! So as they chase and experience the things of life, they keep ‘themselves’ above all!

The purpose of ‘road block’ being served it doesn’t come again and such people ride the train of success for a very long time in the right frame of mind – i.e., being happy and contended inspite of being successful (Read this sentence more number of times to understand it correctly!)

 Others – well, they – they go from one pain to another!

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 # slow down, outer world, healing self

 ** By the way it doesn’t apply to people doing just daily routine 9-7 jobs. Their speed is less than 40kmph so where would there be need to slow down further. We are talking about people who are high achievers or who are high performers ONLY. Your logic will make you apply this right example in wrong place. Beware!  

 *** ephemeral – things that last for very short time, 

अषाष्वत , क्षणिक 

అశాశ్వతమైనది , క్షణికము 

(for all those reading Telugu and Hindi scripts, some days you may find typo mistakes - bear with me - if you want it corrected, then point it out and i will do the needful)

Any suggestions to improve the post content or look will be looked into and those that i can accommodate i surely will....

Questions answered :

• What is the purpose of breaks in life?
• Why do people who are adamant have more break down situations than the flexible ones?
• What is the purpose of life?

Points to be noticed and taken :

• Break can be both forced by circumstances or the self claimed one (by one who is sensible enough to see the signs)
• Lazy bones beware - Don't use this to express your laziness. Don't quote me to run away from your job or responsibilities saying 'you need a break'. Be honest! Laziness should be tackled by giving in to more work and taking more responsibilities.
• You can learn the easy way or the hard way. Choice is yours. Easy way is one where you respect the flow of seasons in life. Easy way is when you develop patience and you learn to wait and heal. Hard way is when life gives you 'jolt' painful and compulsive enough to make you let go off your adamant nature and pick up being flexible. 
• A hiatus helps you to admire and value what we have. 

Let's do some thinking : 

I didn't write for few days. And ...... the feelings, questions and demands for writing - wow....

now my question is - what does this teach you or reflect? 

When I ask for feed backs, sharing experiences, ask questions, then only couple of the regulars answer and others - you know are silent! (But we read maam, but don't like to type, don't want to type, don't find to read/type etc etc)

For not playing your part of reading daily or sharing your insight etc which hardly is for 5 mts max - you have all valid reasons and yet

yet you KNOW HOW THE OTHER PERSON IS SUPPOSED TO  act and how much to act. 

Apply this in every aspect or atleast the aspect of life where there is some tension. Maybe, you are sure of how others should give and when, how much to give to you, but when it comes to playing your part in that relationship you are escaping with the excuses many times by way of blaming the other!

Take a pause and do some honest internal check. May be it's time we change the dynamics of our relationship by changing the way we demand from it and the way we function in it!

Stories and all! Two men in the bus-stop

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Stories and all! Two men in the bus-stop

Option available is the way we use our wait and what energies we generate through the wait! The pain and suffering as one can see clearly is not in ‘bus coming or not coming’, but it is in the way we look at it! It is in the way ‘we are’!

Option is available to each one of us! Only the one with ‘right clarity of thought’ chooses wisely.

Wrong reasoning drives us nuts and creates hell for us! Know the difference! See the difference!

One boy had to just go home and sleep and yet he was agitated. He didn’t validate the abundance that life offered him. He had eyes only for his ‘bus’ meaning the fulfillment of his ‘condition’. The birds, breeze, being alive and healthy – nothing mattered to him. He was pain unto himself. He suffered ‘himself’!

The other boy was a cancer patient and yet he was alive! He wasn’t cursing all who were healthy. He wasn't envious or jealous of people who didn’t have cancer. He wasn’t questioning the ‘life’ or ‘Universe’ and calling it names for being unjust and choosing to give him cancer. He didn’t use his ‘LOGIC’ to use others as punch bag. He wasn’t vomiting his ‘facts of his life which were undesirable to him’ onto others. He was facing the facts of life as one faces the changing seasons of the year. He was alive! He was so because he wasn’t CONDITIONING THE LIFE and the events of life as per his convenience.

Situations of life are not deciding what we suffer. Expectations, conditions, attachments to our desire, being stubborn, having twisted way of thinking and calling it logic – these are some of the attitudes that if held by one can cause suffering and pain to not only that person but to people around him too! 

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Change the perspective lady!

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Change the perspective lady! 

Sometimes we will fall sick and on other days we are healthy.

Some days we receive people in life and on some days we lose some!

Healing cannot and won’t make a change in ‘change of seasons’!

But it will help us change our perspective for better! Because, it is the perception that decides whether we suffer or enjoy the ‘change of season’ every time!

And that is all we need in our life every time we suffer or are in pain!

So why not put reasoning to good use and change our perspective for better? 

All this time, we have justified our emotions and validated our suffering and pain with reasoning. Today, let's put reasoning and logic to good use - to benefit us. Let us learn to use reasoning the right way. Instead of standing by our desires and our emotions, let's question our desires and emotions. Let's work towards desires if need be, but with the change in our way of working towards their fulfillment. Let’s make this small beginning. Let’s make this small change. 

Let’s see where it leads us. 

Just let’s do it! 

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# change the perspective lady story, perspective, perception, attitude and its effect, good and bad, seasons of life, life and its aspects, celebration of life, reasons to celebrate in life, complaining about life, grateful for life .... 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=broken+pots 

https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=seasons 

Have your ever changed your perspective and found difference it brought about in your life? 

Would there be any change in the state of mind because of change in the perspective?