Wednesday, July 15, 2009

An email I sent to my friends

Guys,

There are some thoughts roaming around in my mind about our mental and physical conditions. No doubt we are floating in our own world with smoking, drinking and several other stuff which we should either stop or atleast control upon. It reminds me a good quotation "Body is like our temple, we should take good care of it...". I know motivation never last, and motivational quotes etc hardly have any great impact on us apart from 1 or 2 days we remember those and then we again become as we are.

The thing for me as of now is not to explain the pros and cons about any good or bad habit, but to make sure that we can act on couple of points which may save us from any severe damage...
First and the least thing about all the below stuff is there should not be any RULE/DISCIPLINE to do anything. When the words like RULE/DISCIPLINE comes, it kills half of our enthu... I know!!!

NOTE: I know that to whomsoever I am sending this, they know me well that I am as lazy as an Laisk Loom ... not being bothered to do anything... So, the point is...some writing below is mine... and most of the stuff is copy paste!!! (So what... atleast I spend time for you and did all this...!!! Need appreciation…!!!).

-- "Start slow" is the mantra especially for the people like us who always find a reason not to do something or anything about the most important matter... our body. The best example I can put is
-- I remember for a month I didn't gone for jogging because my ipod was not working and my excuse was, without music, what the logic is to go for it at all...?? So, the conclusion is... you need not to be a gizmo freak or be in great attire etc. to do any physical activity. Clothes, accessories are not going to get any benefit, but you will if you do some physical activity.
-- Walk as much as you can… start enjoying it!!!
-- "Aerobic" exercises like cycling, swimming and running are best for cardiovascular fitness. They strengthen the heart and lungs. Make sure you do atleast one out of these for half an hour daily. It may be easier for you to spend ten minutes in the morning when you first get up, then again at night before you go to bed.
-- Games like basketball, tennis and soccer are of great help in terms of stamina etc... Make sure you play any out of these once in a week... (Don't give shit reasons like you don't have any club etc near by or you don't have so much money to do so... You can play basketball or soccer in your society's lawn etc too... and you don't require 5-10 people also for the same...)
-- Drink that H20! You'll need lots of water to stay fresh. You should drink water before, during and after any physical activity — even if you don't feel thirsty.
-- Accept the fact that our ancient Indian gift to us... "Yoga" is the best thing exist we can do for us and for the people around us too. Spare atleast two hours a week to practice the same... You can make it on weekends... (I know some people like me are more busy on weekends rather than weekdays, but I think now I need a small change in that sense... Remember... Only fools and naves are too busy for anything!!! Rest depends...)

Some more things we may think of...

-- Remember to be realistic about your goals. If you try to reduce the calories, fat, saturated fat, and sugar in your diet AND promise to make a drastic change in your physical activity level, you may be setting yourself up for failure. Instead of trying to make many changes at once, set smaller, more realistic goals for yourself and add a new challenge each week.
-- Make healthy choices a habit. This leads to a healthy lifestyle! Make a commitment to eat well, move more, and get support from family and friends. Even better, start eating healthier and being active together!
-- Choose snacks that are nutritious and filling. A piece of fresh fruit, cut raw vegetables, or a container of low-fat yogurt are excellent (and portable) choices to tide you over until mealtimes. Take these snacks with you for a healthy alternative to chips, cookies, or candy.
-- Take your time! Eat only when you are hungry and enjoy the taste, texture, and smell of your meal as you eat it. Remember, it takes approximately 15 minutes for your stomach to signal your brain that you are full.
-- Forgive yourself. If you occasionally make mistakes, don’t give up! Forgive yourself for making that choice and keep working on it. Eat an extra healthy lunch and dinner if you had a high-calorie, high-fat breakfast. Add more physical activity to your day.

So guys... lets get together to celebrate a happy and beautiful life by start implementing small things, in bits and pieces... I will be more than happy if we will start pointing out the things we should do and what we should not do... among ourselves (later we can start nagging unknown people too about what they are eating etc, but first lets gain some strength by implementing any of the above mentioned things, so that in case someone start beating anyone of us, we would have stamina to recover soon...). I will be posting such things as and when I will cross any.

Comments/compliments are more than welcome!!! Cheers and good luck.... :)

PS: This my email is not meant for some of the recipients as none of the habit which may cause something bad to health they own… Its just a matter of group, and to let them know what situations we are in and how we are trying to cope up with that!!! But also… I have a something good for them… below…

"He was a good man… He never smoked, drank & had no affairs. When he died, the insurance company refused the claim!!! They said…. He who never lived.. CAN'T DIE!!!"

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The pure

I have been thinking about this at times. Though, the fundamental of being right and wrong are reserved by individuals, but purity is nothing to do with that... What is right and what is wrong, will remain the same without any change in it, its just a matter of our own ease that we manipulate those right and wrongs at times. What 'Right' and 'Wrong' we know, are some facts created by us, the mankind, due to our own fears, may be to overcome from some fear, or to create some fear, don't know... What an urge comes sometimes is to face the real 'right' and the real 'wrong'. Those exists, you can feel their presence in this whole existence. But due to how the mankind's upbringing has been done, we start believing in their absence, and we already been constructed for the presence of something which don't exists, or rather, the presence of the facts which we created. This is again a question of man made 'right's and 'wrongs', if you want to believe this, anyways you will, and if you wish to argue on the same, there can be several wrongs here. The part of "convincing" ourselves I had put in my previous blog, so let it be there. What I am trying to figure out is about "What is pure", irrespective of any 'right' and 'wrong'. Purity can't be judged; it can't be parameterized in any such logical calculations of 'rights' and 'wrongs'.

As Osho mentioned... "Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away. Your virginity is eternal. You cannot lose it, there is no way to lose it. You can only forget about it or you can remember it. If you forget about it, you live in confusion. If you remember about it, all is clear." No-one can take the purity from your inside... its there, it should be. You may be doing something unacceptable to the world, to the so called society, but the feeling to do the same thing, at there right moment, is pure. You can't manipulate that. And if the purity presents there, how something can be wrong?

It takes a lot of courage though, to be pure. Its there, but to let it come out, it takes lots of courage. Its unforgiving sometimes, but its lovely. Tough to understand, though beautiful. Anything it can take from you, but return everything. It is always right, dancing inside you to come out. But may take ages to feel you like dancing with it. Once it gets start, its unstoppable. Its not a matter of faith or belief, because these words are highly attached with the contradiction between what you have been tout since beginning and what you feel. However, purity is a fact, its a basic instinct of everyone. We have been pure since beginning. It’s just the layers of some conscious and sub-conscious things which hide it. Purity can't judge, between right and the opposite of it. It is what it is. It can't be this way or that way, it can't happen, it can't be created. It’s not to be discussed, as it can't fold itself in topics. Arguments on it can’t be useful, will not help. It’s for yourself, can't be for anyone else. When the world, the so called society get exaggerated on it, it gets impure in a way. Its simple, yet complicated...

"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled..." -- Jean Racine

God Bless!!! :)

Monday, July 6, 2009

Blank...

I need to break this travelog for this post... I feel so...

So when I am writing all this, I am "being", its like A 2 Z... or nothing, thinking nothing, because can't.

Its here... right now!!! I am happy, I am sad, I am confused. I convince myself sometimes by the quotes like "Confusion is the most honest state...". I know this is. People worry more about their sufferings rather than enjoying the moments which they can. Sufferings override the best moments they have at present... But as I said, I am highly confused; I don't expect myself not to show this. So, I also think that this happens, the suffering overrides the little moments of happiness, joy, a feeling of being juvenile again, a feeling of being in college again... :), but it can't take that from you. As I said I am confused, I can't explain everything... actually, not anything. And I don't want to do so also. If you force yourself to do so, that's being injustice with the moments.

Words like joy, happiness are often getting used now a days. The whole world seems to be trying to show this. We forget about reading the faces and feeling this thing, but we learned to talk about this a lot. That's a good thing also, we learned something... But the nucleotide thing is... what makes you happy, joyful? Can you do a bifurcation between happiness & satisfaction? I felt happiness inside me because I felt satisfied sometimes back when I was able to deliver some message, though hints, and in bits & pieces. I was confused, I am confused and I will remain confused about the same. And that is my source for happiness. To being not in this state, I will loose the source.

I read something very interesting about Joy... "Joy is not the result of what you do; Joy is a state of being that enters your heart when you are open to learning and taking loving care of yourself. Joy is the feeling of exuberance and oneness that envelopes you once you have opened to feeling your pain, learning from it, and moving through it." ... Though not completely agreed, as people may have different views/definitions, but I feel good to read this.

I am blank, I am empty, I am full, I am sad, I am happy, I am feeling anything, feeling nothing, I am feeling everything. Its not about love, liking etc..., it can't be. Either it is nothing or more than that. I always wakeup my lazy person inside while defining or giving name to something. Giving name would be injustice... defining may be injustice...Its here and there, its everywhere... its now!!! Experience life in all possible ways -- good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light...what matters is you should either feel good about everything, about the experience you are gaining or you have already gained, or should not feel anything. Being sad also can be beautiful, feeling being lonely can have its own experience. Don't know, may be depends...I am still on my stand... I am confused...If you really want to know what it is, you need to be absolutely blank.

As Osho said... "Mind can accept any boundary anywhere. But the reality is that, by its very nature, existence cannot have any boundary, because what will be beyond the boundary - again another sky. That's why I'm saying skies upon skies are available for your flight. Don't be content easily. Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential."

"All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be -- don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance."

So when I am writing all this above, I am "being", its like A 2 Z... or nothing, thinking nothing, because I can't. I don't have any problems when the time will come and I will say I am "becoming"... because I don't feel any issue being a human... We, the humans always have our own right and wrongs, we manipulate things, we always trying to "becoming"... not "be"... so what...? We are also leaning things, its learning phase... and at some/any moments in our lifetime, we will feel that we should be "being" and will implement...

So many things or may be nothing... :) ... but its like a feeling of joy, may be I take everything like this way, happiness, sadness... anything... I always take an advantage of being confused... someone can vouch on me for this, can say anything to me, good, bad, weird... Its again like being A 2 Z or nothing...

God bless!!! :)

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