Q: Dear Bhagavan, thank you for giving the teaching of engaging with life. It is so practical. Could you explain more about this. Thank you Bhagavan. A: Bhagavan: Life is really very simple. You are born, you go to school. You learn and do a job or a business and earn money. You fall in love and you get married and you have children. Then you try to acquire some name or fame. You go through the ups and downs of life. You eat a lot of food and you have various kinds of pleasures. You also help others. You also create problems with others. All this is part of life. Oneness is very, very simple. Oneness is all about small things. When you are eating, you must be fully alive while eating. That is, you must be aware of your eating. When you are worried about your wife or child, you must be intensely aware of that worry. When there is jealousy or anger, you must be aware of it. Whatever is going on, you must be aware of it. What is going on is not important. What is important is, are you aware of it? It is just being aware of these simple things. To be aware of your breathing, to be aware of your walk, to be aware of your wifes face, to be aware when you are looking at your childs face to be aware of your wifes face, to be aware of when you are looking at your childs face, to be aware of all your feelings, fulfilling yourself, and being aware of it. Doing simple, normal things with awareness is what we call engaging with life. Doing these simple small things is what we call awareness. This is what is Oneness all about. As you keep doing these things, great things begin to happen, but you should not focus on that. You should focus on these simple practical things. All else is automatic. All the other things that Oneness talks about. If you do this, you will get there. If you do not do this, you will go nowhere. This is engaging with life. Extract from Skype Darshan with China, Dec 20, 2014
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:05:00 +0000
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