शमथ। Samatha Always staying with your own thoughts is like staying in a room where the air is stale. Thoughts are useful like the fresh air that blows into your room when the windows are opened. After some time the same room does not seem so fresh anymore. It is time
Teachings
There is a road for everyone
शमथ। Samatha “I don’t know what to do”, then sit somewhere quietly. If people who do not know what to do runs here and there, everybody is going to be disturbed. And the person who is running will not be satisfied anywhere. The first effort of an unsure individual should be to
Beauty awaits you
शमथ। Samatha What you seek is within your reach, but you must always seek beauty. Beauty is neither external nor internal. Beauty is a quality, a quality that can pull you into it. Beauty is a rhythm, a rhythm that can make your steps effortless. Beauty is a state, a state where
Face your monsters
शमथ। Samatha “I just want to live peacefully like everyone else”, a voice of the hopeful or a voice of the disheartened? It is difficult to say as it looks entwined. On one side it looks as though the person is craving for peace, but on the other side, it looks
Don’t count on distractions to save the day
शमथ। Samatha As you wake up every morning, you wake up with a new thought. Observe that thought. It can tell you a lot about how your day is going to be. Most of the time they are scattered thoughts without any logical flow. But your mind idly plays with them unless
Do not let pain stop you
शमथ। Samatha “I can’t take it anymore; why should I be the one to suffer“, voices you often hear from yourselves. You may think that you are the only one among your friends, colleagues, etc who is suffering. Take comfort in knowing that the person sitting next to you too is asking,
To be calm is to be victorious
शमथ। Samatha To lose your calm means to be distracted. Your mind shifts from the focal point to trivial matters. As a result, your mind gets agitated, which in turn affects the entire body. What you were set to achieve takes a lower priority when this happens. Looking at life in general,
Direction is not optional
शमथ। Samatha ‘Have a goal’ is something all of you have heard all the time. But doesn’t having a goal limit your potential? You keep hearing that you are infinite, and you keep wondering how can the infinite be limited by something as negligible as a finite goal. Infinity is infinite ways
Control alone cannot triumph.
शमथ। Samatha There are three things vital to success; hard work, perseverance, and time. Together they are called control. But are these enough; are hardworking people who are persistent in their endeavours in favourable times always successful? What we see around us, is a lot of people who have given all three but
Life cannot be memorized
शमथ। Samatha ‘Learn from your past’ has been a moral dictum for quite some time now. But is it possible? Simply “no”. Every experience that is placed before you is new and unique and each of them needs unique attention and methods to be addressed. Replicating the past experiences is not the purpose