Mind Your Moments!

Mind Your Moments!

Our life is made up of millions of moments. Its up to us how we utilise these moments... Do we build a stronger self Or do we just derive pleasure out of now

SWAMI SATYA VEDANT


The Indian view, as defined in Ayurveda, is that awareness is the determining factor of how healthy one is. And it is also the source of how well one can improve ones health. As is widely known, the word health means wholeness. Public health experts connect wholeness with well-working . Wholeness is seen as a dynamic state where the whole body is functioning well.
Psychologists such as Jung, on the other hand, define wholeness in terms of individuation or as a process that brings to human consciousness what was otherwise repressed in the unconscious. Thus, psychological health, according to Jung, would mean where ones inner and outer selves are integrated rather than remaining fragmented.
In the final analysis, however, awareness is the determining factor of health. Awareness gives a certain capacity that eventually contributes to the maintenance of health. Sage Charakas Charaksamhita (600 BC) defines the criteria for evaluating whether a person has been cured in terms of un-impairment on mind, intellect and senses . Meditation is the pathway to awareness. It is the means for not only maintaining ones psycho-physical health but also raising it to the higher levels.
Awareness can grow in proportion to meditation. Hence Zen stresses moment-to-moment awareness. A disciple asked his master if he could smoke while meditating; the master said no. Another disciple asked if he could meditate while smoking and the master replied in the affirmative. The point is one can never smoke if one is aware.
This moment-to-moment awareness is reflected in this statement by William James: I will act as if what I do makes a difference. Difference in the quality of life, work and relations with people, difference in what I would call defining a moment .
Osho tell us how to define a moment: Delight in small things. Eat and enjoy, love and enjoy. Go for a morning walk and enjoy. Sit while it is raining and enjoy. Each moment, small things, tiny things, of no importance for the ego, but very, very important for life Enjoy gossiping, chit-chatting , singing, dancing, whatsoever . Whatsoever you feel to do, do it and enjoy it. Dont make it a means to some other end. Let it be the very end itself... It will happen.