Dead Lock
Compulsions look cool, but can potentially enslave us forever.
Have you ever wondered what you are? The very existential question of what the whole drama is all about is something that must have crossed our mind at least once. Most of the time, it’s not a burning question that we tend to seek the answer for it. Even if we do, we don’t know where to seek the answer. It’s a crazy dead lock — when we seek, we’ll not know whether we are moving forward or not and end up staying in the same place.
If we go through the texts, we’ll see that we can get an answer to the question only through enlightenment. Enlightenment in itself is something that is not straightforward to digest.
If our lives are full of procrastination and friction in the mind that things are not happening the way we want in day to day life, where comes the times for seeking answers to existential questions. Unless we give a full stop to these things, it will be pointless even if we live for 100 years.
So, the only way to remove the dead lock is by getting our body and mind out of friction and procrastination. It’s obviously easier said than done.
If you think through who you are, you’ll identify yourself as your body. Say that is the case for now. Are you convinced that your body is maintained well? When we say maintenance, is your body able to do all that you want to do with it? For instance, say you’re a travel freak. Will you be able to travel non-stop without getting sick? Will your body be able to support it? Or say you’re a student who wants to study for 10 hours a day, will your body support this?
If the answer is a big no, then we are wasting our lives by not spending attention on what is really blocking us from doing what we want to do. The worst part is that we assume that the body can handle only so much. This assumption must be broken. There are so many people in the world who might have already done what you want to do. How did their bodies support them?
We sleep for 12 hours a day and say our bodies demand it. Isn’t that a foolish argument? Body may demand it because there is so much inertia in the body because of unconscious eating and zero maintenance.
Unless we stretch and work out with the body, how can it stand all the food that we eat unconsciously. A bike needs maintainenance every few hundred kms to run smoothly, but you want your body to run forever with zero maintenance? A petrol bike always consumes petrol and runs. Atleast we don’t give junk food to our vehicles. But do you think your body will run smoothly with all junk consumed every day with zero maintenance?
If it sounds logical, there must be some action taken to go through the ways of maintaining the body. It could either be yoga, dance, gym, meditation or whatever that makes sense to you. The only thing is consistency in doing it every day — whatever it takes.
Body must be used so well every day with the right kind of fuel for it to perform well.
And yes, the answer to the existential question is still not found. Even if we fix the body, it’ll not be found. Body is just the hardware, then comes the software — our mind. Our monkey minds too needs fix — which needs to be attained with meditation and yoga.
Probably we’ll get an answer if we master our body and mind. Even if we don’t, we’ll live well.
Let’s first start the journey and see where we reach. Until next time, bye ☺
We can encounter situations in life that are deadlocked. The best way to is to sail through and fix them with a stable body and mind. Not by locking ourselves in the situation.
