![]() ![]() At least you could upgrade yourself to a zero. I do not know why everyone is aspiring to be the smallest number. But right from kindergarten, you have been trained to believe you must be number one. What a tragedy it is! Competition means you will lose all sense of harmony within you, because there is no sense of anything about you – it is always about how someone else is doing, compared to you.Įnjoying other people’s failures is sickness. Maybe you could fly, but you are happy that you are walking one step ahead of someone else. To be in competition means you have no sense of your own competence. When you make life into a mere transaction, then being in harmony does not arise, because right from childhood, from kindergarten, you have been told to be competitive. But with so-called education, people have gotten into this madness of “What will I get?” People think life is about getting something.Ĭompetition means you will lose all sense of harmony within you, because there is no sense of anything about you – it is always about how someone else is doing, compared to you. But arranging your life a little better, syncing your life with the natural cycles of life around you, syncing your life with the planet itself, which has made this life the way it is, is important.įor you to come to a certain state of equanimity, for you to live in some sense of inner harmony, for you to be in absolute harmony with all the inputs with which you are living – like water, air, food, fire, warmth, and of course life energy, we have taught yogic practices. You are not going to become a sanyasi tomorrow, and I do not want you to. Because you are for the life that you are – not for the body that you have gathered, not for the mind that you have gathered. This is not renunciation, sacrifice, or giving up life – this is absolutely pro-life. This comes from a certain dimension of intelligence. Sanyas means to consciously choose to keep the time you spend on the compulsions of the body to a minimum. If you try to reduce the compulsions of your body and mind without being in sync with the basic forces in nature, then it looks like you are sacrificing or renouncing everything. For this reason, it is important to address this question, how much time and energy in your life is dedicated to satisfying your physical and psychological compulsions. I am not interested in making any aspect of your life ugly or meaningless, but the problem is, every moment of your life, you are getting closer to your death. The compulsive nature of the body is there you cannot deny it, but how much time and energy do you want to dedicate to this dimension of your life? I want you to look at this with a sense of openness. This is just attending to the compulsions of the body. Compulsiveness or Consciousness? It’s Your Choice.Ī whole lot of people spend their entire life making arrangements for the compulsions of their body – what to eat, where to sleep, whom to sleep with. If you do this, the compulsiveness of the body will go away. This is a simple way of bringing an absolute sense of harmony in the physical system. If your heartbeat is in the range of 70 to 72, then your heart is also in sync with the breath, and the breath is in sync with the revolutions of the Earth. ![]() That means if you are breathing approximately 15 times per minute, you will be exactly in sync with the revolution of the Earth. If you divide this by 1440, which is the number of minutes you have per day, you will get 15. These 21,600 nautical miles amount to the number of breath that you take in a day. ![]() The length of the equator is 21,600 nautical miles. But our most fundamental sense of time comes from the revolutions of the planet. The Moon is going around the Earth – that is a month. The most fundamental sense of time is of course, the planet is going around the Sun – that is a year. Many dimensions of your body are in sync with the fundamental aspects of time-making on this planet. if you are breathing approximately 15 times per minute, you will be exactly in sync with the revolution of the Earth. ![]()
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