EXPRESS OR EXPLODE
A Spiritual Perspective
If you suppress a thought it will erupt, if you suppress the masses they will rebel.
This is the very reason why the masses are kept under anaesthesia of consumerism.
To suppress the rebellion.
You are suppressed — whether you know it or you don’t
You are hacked — whether you know it or you don’t
You are conditioned to go to school, get a job, marry and have children.
No one asked your permission before expecting you to do all this.
People are conditioned to consume more and forget about everything else.
A grand idea is propagated that the more you have the more you stand tall in the eyes of society.
I was expected by the family and society to do all of these things.
I denied the burden of someone else\’s aspirations.
Never went to college and never got married.
Despite that, I have a beautiful relationship with life.
I have wonderful people in my life whom I can call Lovers.
I have a lot of time on hand which I spend writing, reading and drawing.
There is minimal involuntary participation in the days filled with activity after activity.
I am not limiting the suppression to the direct and obvious suppressions by the oppressor in a political and cultural system.
By suppression I mean the conscious intentional exclusion from the consciousness of a thought or feeling. (by definition)
Suppression can be done to you by you too.
When I was on the solo bike ride, I saw many tourists.
Most of them visited the place as an activity. A selfie here and some food there and done.
The sunset was completely missed, and the wave on the beach had no patron, the roads longed for a gaze.
A beautiful experience was lost only because people were busy doing nothing much important. Meaningless and shallow.
They are suppressed by the influences knowingly and unknowingly.
They are sleepwalking through life.
If not channelised this suppression erupts into Self, Domestic and Public violence.
Rebel.
Rebel against the suppression instead. Question the conditioning.
Questioning helps us to find the reason and meaning.
Questioning brings awareness to what we are doing.
Chanelise.
Unique moment
I don’t ask you to relate to my experience of life. Yours is going to be different.
Everybody has a unique way of navigating through the waves and flow of life.
I only mean that you can sit on the balcony and look at the play of birds in the snow.
Nobody takes your permission when you are obligated to work and earn bread.
You hunt you eat.
You were excluded from this decision.
But you can give yourself permission to pause for a while and look at how beautiful the very moment is.
Nothing happens at the moment. There are no fears of the past and no hopes of the future.
Nothing happens in the very moment, yet every moment is new.
Unique.
Give your everything to the moment
I have seen people giving a little of what they have.
As a help, as a donation, as an employee or otherwise.
I rarely see a person who gives everything he has.
This is because he has not yet found out who he is. His true nature and true potential.
A person who knows who he is gives everything he has.
I don’t save anything for later. I spend all my words in this writing.
I don’t have a plan to keep stuff reserved for a book someday.
Whatever, I want to say is right here right now.
If I ever get to write a book, it will be the same process. Give it all, what you got in that very moment.
Direct.
Spend what you have, being in the present moment.
You get more when you keep your hands empty.
More money, more work, more fulfilment.
Be available to life
There are hundreds of ways you can meditate.
But true meditation happens when you bring awareness to every single moment.
Be aware when you pick up the cup of tea, feel the warmth in your hand, mouth and throat when you sip from the cup.
When you do not exclude yourself from this direct experience, What is happening to you?
Many things change, reshuffle and disappear; then what is that stay?
Life finds freedom from the claws of suppression when you find yourself.
An understanding of self is instilled.
Which simply means you were born free and you don’t need anyone’s permission to be happy or sad.
Don’t be fooled by the systems
When factories needed workers, schools looked like factories.
When Corporations need employees today, schools look like corporate offices.
The economy needs you to buy stuff. Most of it you don’t need.
I am not against having the desire to possess beautiful things.
The desire should come from within, not from external influences.
If you feel like having a Lamborghini aim for it, don’t settle for a people’s car only because people think you can’t go beyond that.
It can also be true that you might not need a car and only want it because you are tricked by the conventional perception.
You don’t need a car to elevate your self-worth.
You are already wonderful and unique in your own way.
Precious.
Takeaway
You were born first and then the obligation of navigating through life came in.
Like the language came first and then the grammar.
At the very core, your nature is to be free. You are free.
What we think as bondages of the mundane life are illusory and they can be replaced and discarded.
Nothing is absolute.
You can choose a different path than what the masses have decided to follow.
You can do things in a way that is not written in any book.
When the mind is liberated, you can be anything you want and anyone you want.
You can let things happen to you that are not only surprising but also aligned with your true nature.
Every moment becomes a celebration.
Serendipity.