Put more life into life

If I have to explain the concept of nirvana or god in a few words, it's like you are standing on a platform. God is right in front of you. But imagine a train with infinite compartment coaches is crossing the platform and is the only thing that's stopping you from seeing god. Now you have to wait for the train to leave which may not happen. So there are 2 ways to see the god. Either make the train slow down so that if you focus, you can see god during the gap between the coaches, or you start running at the speed of the train so that you can identify the gap between the coaches and if you maintain that speed with focus on the gap then you will be able to see God. 

So if you think of the compartment coaches as thoughts, the first way is to slowdown your thought process which is what they will teach if you attend any yoga camp or a meditation camp. But I would say, start running to match the speed of the train. Doing things as soon as you think of them. At the speed of thought. Living a lot more life, trying out a lot more things, having a lot more life experiences, that's putting more life into life.

Hold the stillness

I am not sure if the title makes sense. If something is still, why do you need to hold it. We need to hold it because we want to be still and not because it is not moving. 

In our life, we always tend to prefer things that dont change (basically still). We already do that. What kind of friends we have, friends who always behave the same way, means no change. What kind of people we want to talk to when we are in trouble, ones that we can count on, how we can count on, because they dont change that much. When do you think, we can settle down in a relationship, when we understood all the possible changes in the other person. Which means after that they dont have any changes as far as we are concerned. So in life, we tend to stick with things that are still (not changing or when we know all the possible changes, which kinda makes it not changing) 

This is our natural way of living. But we tend to deviate from this path by choosing change because we get bored. The line "change is the only constant thing in life" has become famous because we are forcing this upon us that we have to get used to the change when our natural way of living is stillness. 

So if we stick to our natural way, we can do great things. 

Add how to all your doubts

We keep having so many questions in our life like will I make it? will I be happy in life? will I be successful? etc etc. Those are not the right questions we need to ask ourselves. We just need to add how in front of all those questions. How will I make it? How will I be happy in life? How will I be successful? 

This will narrow down the list of choices for us that will get us going in life. 

Car - The new head of the family

In earlier days, there used to be a concept called "head of the family". The idea behind that is, apart from him/her being the only earning member, that person used to be the member with the most wisdom and who cares for the well being of the others. Gradually this concept faded away as every person has their own jobs, ideas, way of life and thinking. Earlier the idea was that the head of the family used to keep everyone together, inspire them to follow the same path, protect them from external influences and keep them safe. In this modern age, this is an extremely difficult task just for one person

Now imagine the car. In this age of varied thinking, independent thought processes, life styles and personal freedom, Car is able to bring all the members of the family together, trying to move them together in the same direction, protect them from outside noise, weather etc. (imagine playing light music in the car while there is a big thunderstorm outside), try to keep everybody safe. Who else can achieve all these in this time and age. So as time went by, Car emerged as the new head of the family

Theory of miracles

Whenever we are going through desperate situations and feel like we are not able to take it anymore and wish that something magical should happen. God will also feel our pain and would be eager to grant us some miracles. But there is one key thing. God needs a channel to grant us miracles.  God cannot make miracles happen out of the blue without a means. For example, if we worked very hard on something and waiting for an outcome, or if we tried really hard to get a job and gave multiple tests and waiting for an outcome, or if you buy a lottery ticket and waiting for an outcome etc.

So if we observe carefully, we need to DO something through which multiple channels or means are created for God to make miracles happen. Normally whenever we are going through tough times or situations, we don't feel like doing anything. But if we don't do anything, there wont be any means created for miracles to happen. So the key is to keep making effort as more channels we create, there is more possibility for miracles. So just keep going.

Interactions

I was always curious to find about the outcome of my interactions with people. Lets say whenever I meet somebody for the first time, talk to somebody, attend an interview, gave a presentation etc., I would be curious to know if they felt positive about the interaction or not. Whenever an interaction happens between 2 people, a chemical reaction happens and the outcome of the reaction is passed to both the people. So if you felt positive about the interaction, it is 100% sure the other person also felt the same thing. What they will do with that feeling is a different issue. But atleast you can feel happy that they felt positive about it if you did.

That small thing

Whenever you face a great tension or some really adverse thing happens in your life, just sit and observe for a little while. You might have very recently started something new like a new routine, joined a new gym, started doing yoga, started with a new goal or started a new discipline. This might be a very small thing and completely unrelated to the great tension you are facing in your life. But the tricky and surprising thing is that they are related. The only key to solving the great tension you are facing is to somehow accumulate enough strength to continue doing the small thing that you recently started. And the big tension will go away magically and automatically.