The Maroon Rising

buddha

FREEDOM

I’m inspired! To say something, something about Freedom. This word – Freedom. It pulls me like no other. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been craving Freedom. Even when I didn’t know what Freedom meant. I just love the feeling that comes with this word – Freedom. Freedom. Freedom! 

I was raised with a lot of Freedom. Most say, my parents gave me a bit too much of it. But I wonder, is there anything like too much freedom? And if I was raised with so much freedom, then why was I looking for it all my life? I know now. I wasn’t looking for freedom, I was looking for liberation. You could say it’s the same but there is a small difference in essence, which makes all the difference. But that’s for another day. Today, for the sake of this sharing, I’ll call it Freedom. 

All rebellion, all revolutions, are an act of a need for freedom. We are conditioned to believe that we live in a free world. But this world is anything but a free. So at the soul level, we all crave freedom. Most of us aren’t even aware that almost all of our frustrations arise from this need of freedom because we believe that we are free. It is just a belief, and all belief is conditioning, not reality! 

The thing is we are like ping pong balls between good and evil. We are conditioned to choose between good and evil. To be able to choose is not freedom. True freedom is when we can choose not to choose either and experience both and neither. In reality, in truth rather, there is no good and no evil. They are just two sides of the same coin of duality. And truth is non dual dualistic. We are both good and evil and in that we are neither. If we are both good and evil then we are neither, we are a third kind that hasn’t been given a name, because language comes from the world of duality, not reality. 

Ever since the establishment of society, we have been given a choice. A choice to remain in society or to renounce it. So either choose the path set out by the establishment, government, structure; or the path set out by the God men, priests, pundits. Lemme tell you a secret I found out 🤫. These establishments, governments, structures and God men, priests, pundits; work in collaboration behind the scenes. They are best friends you know. They just look like enemies. It’s an illusion. To keep us confused. To play with us. So we can’t see the reality, the truth; which is only inside of us, not outside. 

Until we know what we are, we can be controlled. Controlled like machines, not even like humans. We can be controlled in the name of good & evil, either by the establishment or the God men. We can revolt, we can rebel, we can do whatever we think will give us freedom. But we are controlled. So how to break out of this control and be free? 

Both of these, the establishment and the God men, control us through our attachment to our egos. By that I don’t mean arrogance. I mean our attachment to our false sense of identity, which has been fed to us by these establishments and God men only. All of our conditioning makes up our egos. All our attachments, goals, desires, identity, personality and so on. When we feel un worthy of the establishment’s idea of success; we run to the God men as an escape. But then they start controlling us through our attachment to escape. There is nothing that can come of escaping. We are essentially only escaping from ourselves and we can’t escape ourselves. Where will we run fro ourselves. It’s an illusion. 

A small story comes to me as I say this. A man renounced all his worldly attachments and went to the Himalayas to seek God. He had heard, if he wants to find God, he must renounce his attachments. So that’s what he did. When he reached his destination, he found all the trees occupied by seekers of God. In meditation they sat. One seeker under one tree. So he found an unoccupied tree, sat under it and started meditating. Suddenly, he felt a smack on his head and opened his eyes to find another seeker screaming at him, ‘get out of here. Go find another tree. This is MY tree.’ 😂. 

Our attachments are what they play us on. So only if we break through our attachment to our false sense of self, the ‘I’, the ‘my’; they can’t control us. Never & not at all. How will they … rather, what will they control? 🤔 

They will be left confused instead 😂. But it’s not easy to break through conditioning. So how to do that? I found one way. Rather, I was shown a way by ‘Him’ who has broken all his conditioning and realized what ‘He’ is. It’s Vipassna meditation. The way of Buddha. Vipassna, coupled with the practice of periodic silence, breaks through these conditionings and attachments. God men are men not Buddha. So they don’t know and don’t let us know either. The silence opens us up to see ‘what’ we really are. And slowly but surely, we start to detach from our minds and bodies. The only way I can describe the experience, is to be able to see ourselves as another entity. The watcher, the witness in us starts to see the personality, the ego, the ‘I’. 

This watcher, this witness is the true self. It is nothing and it is all there is. It’s all of existence. It is oneness, it is union. In fact true self-love is born of this experience. That is why they say, self-love is selfless! Then we are our true self, our authentic self. Then we are Love. And Love is God. Then we are God. God is neither good nor evil, and both good and evil. Then both good and evil is transcended. Such a transcended being can never be controlled. He can be eliminated certainly, but cannot be controlled. And what is the fear in being eliminated? One day we will all meet death. Why not meet it in freedom? And before that, why not be alive and free, instead of being dead and controlled? 


In True Twin Flame connections, the duality of Good & Evil can be seen. In fact, the main purpose, (among other purposes) of these very rare Twin Flame connections, is the transcendence of Good & Evil, through the power of Love. They are two faces of the same coin of duality, so they are essentially one. One is the Good twin & one is the evil twin; where one is light & one is dark; one is Yin & one is Yang. In their union, both Good & Evil are transcended, and they are transformed to a third kind.
This third kind is both Good & Evil, and neither Good nor evil. Good or Evil, they are essentially aspects of the same whole. In their union this third kind is the ‘Divine’ kind. That is why, their union is a Sacred Union. The Divine union. In their union, the template of True Love is seeded and Love, my friend, is Freedom.

Freedom is not in choice. It is in ‘being’ choice less. Freedom is in acceptance only, in experience. So fuck the establishment, fuck the God men. Be choice less and be liberated! Do what the fuck you want and I’ll do what the fuck I want. I just want to celebrate and meditate; just want to dance 💃 

I want to …

Live to see the flower blossom, 

Whatever will be, will be awesome.

MAPJ

What so you want to do?

THE ACHIEVER WITHOUT AN ACHIEVING MIND 

NO MUD, NO LOTUS 

‘Om Mani Padme Hum’, is a Tibetan mantra which means, ‘The sound of silence is like a diamond in a Lotus’. So to reach true silence within, I first must get to the Lotus. But the Lotus is surrounded by mud, rather by muddy still waters. The Lotus floats above it. I must go through the muddy, still waters first. These muddy waters only look still and calm. Underneath it, there are dangerous weeds, that grow over me & suck me in as soon as I step in. Almost like a hungry beast wanting to eat me.
Our outward reality, our world is the muddy waters, sucking us all in. These weeds of desires, goals, ambitions, greed, lust, money, name, fame, and the list goes on; have grown all over us. So much so that we don’t even know where we end and where the weeds begin. We have become the weeds. 

Then there are some of us, who have seen a tiny bit of ourselves through the weeds. That is enough. When I see even a tiny bit of myself, I’ve started to awaken. I’ve seen the Lotus floating above. I want to get to the Lotus now. So I start to cut the weeds out, one at a time. Each time I cut a weed, I see more of me. I feel more liberated, a little more free. And as I taste more of freedom, I empathize with the others who keep getting sucked in. I want to pull them up as well. I want to free them as well but I can’t. How can I until I’m on the Lotus? I’m still stuck. Maybe not as much, but I’m still cutting through the weeds. 

So instead, I speak and I scream and I shout out for all, ‘wake up, wake up. Cut through the weeds. Look at the Lotus.’ Not many listen. They are far too sunken, engulfed by the weeds. They see the weeds as themselves. But some listen, some really do. They listen and they start to cut through the weeds too and then they start to speak, and scream and shout out to the rest, ‘wake up, wake up. Cut through the weeds. Look at the Lotus.’  

THE ONE SITTING ON THE LOTUS. 

There is someone sitting on the Lotus too. He has arrived, Cutting through all the weeds. Reaching the diamond, he is the diamond. He is still speaking, and screaming and shouting out; but in silence. How else can he speak, if not in silence? He is the diamond of silence, sitting in the Lotus. I hear him say, ‘I will show you the way and I will give you a sharper knife, I will bring you to the Lotus.’ So I follow him, I do as he says. I need him to guide me. The real treasure is in the Lotus. What is in the weeds? 

The one sitting on the Lotus becomes the master, the one cutting the weeds becomes the disciple. 

BUDDHA’S BIKKHU

The disciple has many names. My master calls his disciple a ‘Nav Sanyasin’. Other masters call their disciples a sanyasin. Buddha called his disciples ‘Bikkhu’, translated literally, a beggar. Not really a beggar in the way we translate the word today but as the, ‘Bikkhu’ meant 2500 years ago. In Buddha’s time, a Bikkhu was one who depended on the community, the society for his daily bread. In exchange of the bread, he gave his gratitude. This gratitude came from the soul because, He didn’t know when he woke up that morning, if he would get to eat today or not. So he is truly grateful. And when gratitude comes from the soul, it becomes a blessing. 

The thing is, a Bikkhu has cut through some weeds and has reached a level of consciousness that takes him closer to god. In other words, he has courageously, dropped his desires, goals, ambitions, wealth and other worldly attachments, to raise his consciousness to god consciousness. Thereby, raising the collective consciousness of our world. He is doing it for his own freedom but the vibrations and effects of his doing, or rather non-doing, are reaching all of mankind. It’s beautiful. That is why, in those days, and in the east even today, they say, ‘be grateful for the blessings from a sanyasin, and fear his curse.’ Whatever comes from the soul of a conscious being, it manifests. A bikkhu, a sanyasin, is not a beggar, he is a blessing! 

MATERIAL WORLD FOR A SANYASIN

So why did Buddha call his disciples ‘Bikkhu’? It was symbolic. To remind the disciple that essentially he is empty on the inside. He is free of all worldly attachments and entanglements. Free of the weeds. Or at least getting there. In that, he is rich on the inside; rich in freedom, rich in love, rich in compassion, rich in joy, rich in bliss, rich in intellect, rich in emotional intelligence, rich in true abundance. So does that mean that as a sanyasin, I’m a beggar in the material world? Actually quite the contrary. Inner abundance manifests as outer abundance. As above, so below. As within, so without.
I’ve never been richer in the material world. Multiple rental incomes, a hefty inheritance. My multiple sources of income. A fund, with ready funding. A not-for-profit with a salaried position. Not having to think twice before spending on anything I want or need. Fulfilling all my desires so they are not renounced, they drop on their own. I feel blessed. 

Existing in three countries at the same time is not a cheap affair in today’s world. But I’m grateful that I can afford to do so. And what do I do for this kind of abundance? I only meditate. That’s all I do. The rest is taken care of by my master. He has taken my responsibility, while I cut through the weeds. But what I’m aware of consciously, is that this abundance doesn’t belong to me. It belongs to Him who allows it to me. He can take it away when he wants. When it is time for it to drop. I’m only a bikkhu, on the inside. No matter what it looks like, on the outside. But I don’t beg. I only watch the ‘leela’. The act of life manifesting through me. 

MY MASTER’S LEELA

I’d like to share, one of the most inspiring accounts of the life of my master in this context. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, my beloved master is known for his 99 Rolce Royces, and a super luxurious commune in the heart of Oregon, called Rajneeshpuram. When the commune was shut down by the Ronald Regan government and all assets seized, thousands of Sanyasins along with my master were deported from USA and left stranded without homes, almost like beggars. Among them was also my master, who was incidentally in deep silence during the three and a half years of the existence of Rajneeshpuram. I bet you didn’t know that!

Regardless, thousands of deported Sanyasins fell into heavy depression at the huge loss. My guru swami Anand Arun, then a young sanyasin, approached my master with the help of one of his closest disciples, veteran actor of Bollywood, Shree Vinod Khanna. Swamiji, said to Bhagwan in deep concern, ‘they will kill you. Please do something.’ To this Bhagwan replied with only a calmness on his face, ‘I know. Can you do something about it? No you can’t. So why don’t you focus on what I have asked you to do? Do your work. Go find a spot in the mountains of Nepal and build a commune. Take my message forward. Help the others find meditation. In my body or not, I will always be there.’

Swamiji was amazed at this and asked, ‘I will do as you say. But so many of us are in depression at the loss. Why aren’t you sad?’ Bhagwan replied, ‘I am sad, not about the loss of Rajneeshpuram, but because my Sanyasins have not learnt anything from me. I have been teaching you, life is a leela, an act and we are all actors. Enjoy it all to the fullest, while it is there, so when it drops, there is no sadness. That was a leela, I have enjoyed it fully. Now this is a leela too and I will enjoy this too. Go build the commune and don’t worry about your family and business. You focus on the commune and I will take care of everything else for you. You and your loved ones are my responsibility.’  

Swamiji says to us, it gave him strength and sure enough, that is exactly what happened. His business grew as he mediated and as he built this commune, Osho Tapoban international in the heart of the Nagarjuna Hills in Nepal. I can believe this because this is exactly what is happening with me and my loved ones. All I’m doing is focusing on my work. Meditating and now cutting the weeds. 

IN MY NON-DOING

My birth mother, had come to visit me at the commune a couple weeks ago. At that time she met with swamiji and much to my surprise, he said something I wasn’t expecting. At least not yet. He said to my mother, ‘People who live in Canada, are blessed. I want a commune to be built in the mountains of canada’. My mother asked, ‘but who will build it? You need someone dedicated to do this. Someone devoted.’ Swamiji smiled and said pointing to me, ‘she is one of the most dedicated, devoted sanyasins I’ve found. She will do it.’ 

I didn’t say a word but I was shocked, for so many reasons. Throughout my life, I wished that at least one teacher, had praised me as a good student. But in school I really wasn’t a good student at all. It was always, ’she’s too naughty or she’s too talkative or she doesn’t work hard or something else.’ And here, the most important teacher of my life was describing me in ways that at first I couldn’t believe. It was my conditioning. I didn’t feel good enough, I didn’t feel worthy. Also I don’t feel ready to take on a project as big as a commune but Bhagwan speaks through swamiji. His will is my path. So if he believes in me, who am I to question it? I leave it to him and become a silent observer of my leela. 😊 

THE RAT RACE

My master says that once you drop out of the Rat race of worldly achievements, the ones who tried to pull you down, to get ahead of you, will be the unhappiest. In this last week of silence, I experienced this first hand. I guess I had to experience it for knowledge to become wisdom. I would imagine that those who tried to sabotage me professionally, when I chased my ‘dreams’, would be the happiest when I dropped out of the rat race. One less competitor for them. But it turns out, they were unhappier than when I was in the rat race. It is true, as Bhagwan says, the world we live in is drowned in such misery, that they can’t bear to see someone else’s happiness, joy, peace. They would rather compete with me than see that I’ve risen above the competition. 

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I’m doing nothing. I’m cutting the weeds. To get to the real treasure. That’s the biggest achievement for me. It’s some hard hard work. And the rest of the abundance that they are chasing, comes as a bi-product for me. It’s not the real deal. Well, to be honest, this achieving mind is such a devil in disguise, that even in the world of Sanyasins, there is jealousy that grows between sanyasins. So let alone the material world, I don’t even talk about my spiritual evolution with fellow sanyasins, no matter how close they are to me. Not about my internal evolution, not even about my spiritual journey or my divine counterpart. On the contrary, I find immense joy in talking about their spiritual evolution, their journeys. My need to speak, is now channeled in my writing and my sharing. 

Some say, this path, it’s courage, but for me it’s always been Love. I’m doing the same things in the material world, rather, I’m allowing it to be done through me, but with no attachment to it. It bothers them more. Misery loves company! 

THE ILLUSION OF MIRRORS

To conclude, let me try to bring forth another analogy. We live in a room surrounded by mirrors. Like a maze we walk through it, many paths reflected, surrounded by more mirrors; all leading to our desires, goals, ambitions & relationships; but none leading to us. Actually we don’t know what we are. We think we know, we only know our reflections. What we see all around the illusionary maze, are mirrors reflecting other mirrors, showing us our reflection but we perceive it as screens. Because we have only seen mirrors, not us. They look so achievable, so much like a path leading to something meaningful. 

We don’t know it is only our reflection. So we want everything to look like that which we have seen in the mirrors, not knowing that is us. We are meaningful but we don’t know that ‘coz we don’t know ourselves. Always trying to become something/someone, instead of just being who we are. We can claim it all now; we need not go far at all. Just a step, in the opposite direction, inward! But we choose to become projectors instead, walking a million miles outward, with no end in sight. Reflections upon reflections.

If you’ve found a door, find a key. If you have a key, find a door; and escape, just run for your life. It is our illusionary world, keeping us from the real one, outside the mirrored room. We don’t know what we are, except from the illusion(ed) eyes, with which we see the illusionary world. So how to find a door or a key? By closing our eyes and silencing the chatter. By feeling our way through it. Cut the weeds. Get to the diamond in the Lotus. 

He too is an achiever, of another kind, 

Achieving, without an achieving mind! 

MaPJ

Zorba, The Buddha

The Birth of the New Man

Zorba, The Buddha is one of the most precious gifts to Man from my beloved master, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. As a sanyasin, I have nothing more to give, apart from some words and my unconditional love. So today, I’d like to share an understanding, an experience, a divine gift; as an offering of my Love to celebrate the birth of The New Man. Actually, with the understanding of Bhagwan’s consciousness, I’d say he was joking when he said ‘Zorba, The Buddha’ in one breath, but it became a gift to Man. History proves, nothing of meaning has ever been born of seriousness. And unfortunately, our world is a serious place. But Zorba, The Buddha is not. 


Zorba is the greatest experiencer of life. He is the materialist, the entrepreneur, the adventurer, the creator, the great player! And Buddha is the God. He is the spiritualist, the saint, the lover, the meditator, the conscious being! They are the opposite, they are poles apart. Zorba can dance and Buddha cannot even move. They are the polarity. So ain’t it a joke? How can Zorba be Buddha? He is a player, so he can pretend being Buddha but he cannot be Buddha. More importantly, how can Buddha be Zorba? He cannot even pretend being Zorba. So where do Zorba and Buddha meet? 


In Action. Zorba and Buddha meet in action. But how? Zorba is all action and Buddha is the absence of all action. The answer can be found in the ‘Gita’. In Krishna consciousness. It doesn’t matter if you believe in Krishna the god or not, what’s important here is that if ever there has been a consciousness such as that of Krishna, walking this planet then, what does that mean for Man?


In the middle of the battlefield, as the weapons were drawn and the war of Mahabharata began, Arjun, the most promising warrior of the Pandava side, froze! He was unable to draw his weapons on his own family and those who taught him with love, how to fight war. He was unable to see the point of his ‘action’, when either ways he would be the looser. If Arjun wins the war, he looses the ones he loves, and if he looses the war, he looses everything. He is experiencing an inner conflict between his dharma (responsibility) and his karma (action). Yet, He must fight the war. He is born to fight. Aren’t we all really? This world is a fight to survive, to sustain, to live, to experience, even to love. 


In this context, ‘Gita’ is Krishna’s discourse to Arjun on the understanding of responsibility vs action; for the New Man, in the Kalayuga (dark ages). The Mahabharata is the beginning of Kalayuga and Krishna is here in consciousness to show us the meeting of Zorba & Buddha, in ‘action’. The ways of survival for the new man of a new age – Kalayuga. The age where brother kills brother & son kills father for power. In the Gita, Krishna talks about three kinds of action – Action (karma), in-action (akarma) & non-action (Vikarma)


Karma is what we all live through, unconsciously. We are the doers. Always trying to figure out what to do, how to do, why to do, when to do. The concept of ‘I’ must do. Karma is of the mind. It belongs to the world of the person, the personality. It is to do with an aim to receive an outcome, a fruit of the doing.


Akarma, is the way of Krishna consciousness. It is the way of the conscious being. Where he is not the doer. He need not figure out anything. What needs to be done, is done through him. He has no expectation of the fruits of his doings, no fear of the outcome. He is doing simply what his soul is calling him to do. For the love of it. That’s all. Akarma is of the heart. Actually it is of the soul but the soul can only be accessed through the heart. Through feeling. Through Love. Akarma belongs to the world of the soul. 


Vikarma is beyond the mind and the soul. It belongs to the world of the being, the consciousness, the supreme consciousness. Functions that the body is doing but neither the doer nor the non-doer is involved in the action. Breathing, heart pumping blood, the digestive system; functionings of the body that are just happening. Must be God doing it! 😊. In understanding Vikarma, in accepting Vikarma as a doing of existence, a doing beyond our control; akarma becomes the only possibility. We recognize the futility of our doing, We recognize that life is beyond our control. We are here only to experience. Everything else is meaningless the moment we die. Akarma is where the Zorba meets the Buddha. 


Akarma is when the doer is missing. The person is missing. The ‘I’ is missing. The doing is happening just because it must happen. It is in accordance with existence. When the ‘I’ is no more, then Man is Buddha. And when the ‘I’ is no more, Man can also truly experience like Zorba. If you observe yourself as a witness, you will see that it is really the concept of the ‘I’ that feels the pain, the anger, the frustration, the joy, the happiness, the thrill. You, in the being, in the soul, in consciousness and in truth; only feel the love. Love is your only nature. Love can be expressed as compassion, as understanding, as peace, as calm, and also as rebellion. 


The non doer, the Akarmi, is the true rebel. Rebellion is not a doing, it is a happening, like love, like meditation. The non-doer cannot revolt because he is not doing anything. The doer can only revolt, not rebel because he is only doing. Revolution doesn’t succeed, it never has. Only rebellion creates meaningful change. Because the change is expressed through the being, not the doing. I’ve expanded a lot more on the rebel in a previous blog post, titled ‘Who do you think you are?’. So what is stopping you from being a Rebel, a non-doer? 


Fear! It is Fear! Fear of tomorrow, Fear of the past repeating itself. Fear of loss of that which you are attached to. Be it money, a home, a business, a person, an image, a lifestyle, a project, an idea or even life itself. You must think your actions through, before you act because you fear the outcome. It is the same dilemma that Arjun faces on the battlefield of Mahabharata. Dharma vs Karma. Man cannot act without knowing the outcome, the fruit of his doing. Yet, there is no way to know the outcome. It is the future. It does not exist, except in concept. Do you see the paradox here? The illusion that our world lives in! It is essentially, only a fear of the unknown. 


The biggest fear is the fear of death, because of an attachment to life. Why are you attached to life? Because you want to live. But the fear of death is not letting you live. Experience is in non-attachment. And non-attachment makes one fearless. When you are not attached to any outcome, any thing, any person, any image, any idea; when you can live everyday as an experience; then no matter what comes, you will be unaffected. Nothing outside of you can ever have control over you or your experiences. 


I’m reminded of 2016, when I had exactly $20 in my bank account and an unpaid mortgage of over 3 months. The bank would fore-close on my home any day. I didn’t know how I was going to eat my next meal, I had been suffering depression for a few years by then. I didn’t know what to do. Then …. One day a thought, more like a feeling, just came to me. Something within me said, ‘Take it all from me, but you can’t take me from me.’ I had no clue what that meant back then but I felt a sort of calm. A survival instinct.  A non-attachment to everything outside of me. A fearlessness. Now I know what it means. ‘I am complete unto myself’. 


Inner fearlessness of the outcome, through non attachment to everything outside of the self; is the way of the non-doer. The akarmi. The Krishna. Of Zorba, the Buddha. But how to get there? By Focusing on you, the inner being, the inner reality. By focusing on the love, not the fear. You are re-creating yourself. You are your biggest creation. Focus on the re-creation, not the disruptions on the way. The form will change but the disruptions will continue, because you are an intrigue to others. You are different. You choose to know yourself, in a world that doesn’t even know what it is to know yourself. They are fearful too … and fascinated at the same time. 


Others are also doers (karmic). They are not non-doers (akarmi). They also are acting from fear. If the actions of others, causes a reaction or any affect on your focus; it means you can be easily controlled. They want to control you so their fear is not realized. They want a reaction and only a doer reacts, a non-doer doesn’t react because his focus is unaffected. He is not interested in the outcome, He is interested in the experience. He knows that the outcome cannot be known. It is foolish to react. Reaction is based on past experiences, on fear. A non-doer only responds and the response is just happening through his being. Through his being focused on his present, on his being, on his plan, on his calling. 


A response is based on the present. On the man  you are today. The past experience means nothing. The man that experienced it, died with that moment. Then it doesn’t matter how dark the past is. Essentially we all die each moment to be reborn the next. You can choose any moment to respond as the new man. When there is no domination by the past, the non-doer has just moved out of the past. Others play on your fear but the moment you understand they are fearful too, the tables automatically turn. The game naturally flips. Power is not in doing, it is in understanding. Only in understanding. Then moving forward on your plan of choosing yourself, with that understanding. The rest will solve itself. 


Actually, the real issue is rooted in deep subconscious human conditioning. It has come to be more commonly known as ‘The human condition’. When a man begins to transform, naturally, his immediate surroundings and people see the change first. Inner transformation is such an experience, that it fills the being with more & more bliss. And We live in a very sad world. I mean… the people of this world live in misery, and they are attached to their misery, because they fear the unknown.

The others, they are not happy to see you happy. And this is a subconscious conditioning of all humans. They don’t even know why they do what they do but I’ll tell you why. They can’t see you happy. It reminds them of what they are missing. That is how you become the change you want to see in the world. You become a mirror for others.


And for your experience, here’s a fact. For a Rama to be worshipped, Ravana must exist. The existence of the villain, makes the hero a hero. What if you embraced the villain in your story? As the villain of course, but accept it as it is, with understanding, with compassion. With love for love. Let it be where it is. Let it do what it’s doing. It is here to make you a hero. Let it watch you be the hero.

What if you did something different? What if you became fearless to the outcome and followed your calling? Followed your heart? What if you just refused to engage in the fight at all, What if you kept doing what is being done through you? What if you just dropped your past in a moment? Not by doing something but just by focusing on your present, on what you want to create. What you want to experience. In your being, the past has already dropped, that is why a conflict has arisen. There would be no conflict otherwise. What if you just said, ‘I will not identify myself with my past experiences’? 


Then what would they do? They wouldn’t know how you will react. Because you won’t react. Your being will respond. And it will respond differently. Because you are not the person they controlled. You are Zorba, the Buddha. You are now unpredictable. Some may see you as irresponsible but you know, you are first responsible to the self. That is where dharma (responsibility) of the new man of Kalayuga comes in. The first responsibility is to the self.  The Kalayuga is of ‘each man unto himself’. 


I’m sure they will threaten to abandon, try to invoke the fear. But never forget, everyone has a fear. They fear loss as much as you do. That is precisely why they try to control the situation. Be it money, a home, a business, a person, an image, a lifestyle, a project, an idea or even life itself. If you become non-attached to it. You become fearless. If you trust. You trust that if it goes, it is for the best and if it comes, it is for the best. Then you move forward with faith, regardless of what it does in your outer reality. You take your power back. But they are not fearless, their power is still not with them. Hmm … Food for thought ! 🤔


The world outside you, doesn’t care about your experience or for that matter, what you think of them. They keep focusing on their agenda. To fill their voids at the expense of another. And they succeed. They succeed in blocking your experience. What if you did the same? but just with understanding and compassion. With love for love. You focus on yourself, on your creation, on your experience and you will succeed. Only thing worth focusing on in life is life itself, and nothing else.

You came alone, you’ll go alone and you will come back alone and go back alone again. Who gives a f### about the world? What if you did something different. Something unpredictable. Something uncontrollable! Zorba is blind but Buddha is not. Buddha is lame but Zorba is not. They will work as one being, to escape a fire. 

Zorba can dance & Buddha can see! Then what’s the fear? Cheers to the birth of the fearless New man 🥂

खुदी को कर बुलंद इतना,

कि हर तकदीर से पहले,

खुदा बंदे से खुद पूछे,

‘बता तेरी रजा क्या है।’

Allama Iqbal


Translation:

Raise yourself to such heights, 

That before every destiny, 

God himself asks the Man, 

‘Tell me, what YOU want!’  

Allama Iqbal