Freezing

Motto:
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. – John Stuart Mill

To me is cold. Not very cold but, winter, you know.



Remember childhood ?

Do someone of you remember the first step ? The first sight of the light ?
Or the time when you first encounter a new sensation, a new taste, a new sound.

Do you remember the first kiss ? Or the first love ?

In life it is so. We react for the first time, but when the feeling or sensation tend to repeat we tend to freeze, to fell it less and less.

More or less, this help us go further, and, in the end, force us go further in a well known way.

Sure, it would be very hard for us to start it over every day, to rethink all the ideas in our minds, to reevaluate our relations, our feelings daily.
So, most of us tend to take, at one moment or another, the simple classical path that became our daily routine.

Besides that, we could always use the landscape world we could create. The wonderland we have and keep secret to others, showing only the bright side of it, like in the picture.
No one likes to talk very much about Richard Parker. Given attention, awake him.

So, day by day we change ourselves into something new, more abiding to daily routine and, in the end, we could call that loyalty or principles or, even loyalty to our principles.

But could this be some sort of inability to evolve ? Is this “The Wall” from our life ?

And then, if one chose to “break through”, what ? What to do after that ?
Richard Parker could be scary and angry but is already known. We know to deal with him, we know to feed him, and to avoid him.

But what if we face something new ? What if we have to reconsider everything ?

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. – Raymond Chandler

Sure, one have to balance between new and ... loyalty, but, after all, each one of us must follow he’s path, to achieve he’s goals and to try, at least, the best for him.

Meri subhkamay tumhare saath hain !


A friend told me about that:
"What if the new path chosen is the least travelled path, through dark forests haunted by spirits and nay sayers. What if that path seems to lead you into an ever growing darkness which seems to close in around you, making the path seem wicked... the path to hell.
What if when you turn around and look backwards, there is someone standing at the entry with a flickering light looking condescendingly at you and asking you to return.What if, you instead, do the irrational... follow the only person you trust ... YOURSELF and go on deeper into the mist, armed only with YOUR own belief.

What if you stumble and die, would you not be happier knowing that you tried?

What if this path was a trial by fire and it finally led you to your goal?"

And I answered:

"For a wise man - rushi (I like how it sound in telugu) the path to the objective (and for such a man there is only one objective, not related to friends, family or principles) some personal features are very important, in order to succed.
A strong will is the first. This could be achieved through tapas.
Knowledge, not only from books, but from observing all the time the surrounding reality, himself and all the other creatures.
Faith, meaning not blind submission, but a more elevated feeling, of asking and getting support, of sharing something with someone else, until the "I" will disolve.

Now, all these require courage and the ultimate test of courage is to let go that feeling of identity, of "I".

Why I say all this ?
Because doing so, the wise man tamed the Richard Parker (or the intellect form inside - the budhi hw sanskrit name it) and have no more fear to walk ... "into the valley of death" (nor a dark forest).
Because doing that, one change he's status from subject to master, and could master all the world. In fact, he do nothing but to reestablish his natural position, he's natural powers.

So, yes, following this path will transform you into a God (deva) and your deeds will have no more a color (nor good nor bad).
Eventually, this is beyond morality, ethics and what so ever concern the social rules."