Does The Mind Exist

You look at yourself. You see the body, feel it, smell it, touch it. You know it is there. you can work with it. May be you can change it, modify it. You look at your mind. You can not touch or smell it. Yet you feel it. No, you do not feel it. May be you sense it . You think you feel it. You think you can work with it, change it, modify it. It is almost like working with vapor or air. You can not grasp it, you can not hold it. Yet you can not deny it. At times you sense it getting muddy, getting smoky. Mostly you feel it carrying this and that,like the smoke, like the tiny drops of mist, like the dust particles. It makes a screen, the stronger the screen the more opaque it becomes. The more it conceals, the more it covers. You think you see, yet nothing is seen. The eyes feel tired. The strain in them weighs them down. A drop or two tries to wash it away. You feel tired to open them. it hurts. And then you open them. It is there. As clear as crystal as luminous as a piece of diamond. You see it and you do not see the mind. Does it exist ?

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INDEPENDENCE DAY

What is there in a name? The rose will smell as sweet in whatever name. And so it is in the world of nature. But what about a family name or brand name? They seem to be important or otherwise by the naming. An independence day of a country definitely means a lot.It reminds one of the need for freedom in life.But it can only be felt in the quiteness of rising sun, monotonous movement of the waves or the cackle of birds. Just try to celebrate, you make a package, you make a cage, you spoil it by tying yourself in the itinearies and loosing your way to the tyrany of daily chore. Happy independence, feel free to unwind and slither into life unseen and unannounced and enjoy the freedom and cherish it. After all it is free.

SPACE

We all carry a certain amount of space and so need space to move around. We leave in the space between boundaries even when we seem to be more concerned about the boundaries rather than the space. A thatched house or a pucca house or a bunglow hardly makes any difference to our comfort level if the space available is same and additional amenities are same. However our basic insecurity makes it more comfortable to live in a more sturdily built one as it looks more filling the space around us and to that extent hindrance to any body to move through it. Our aprehensions about other's intentions prompts us to take shelter behind filled space serving the purpose of keeping other filled spaces away from us i.e. out of harms way. All the same it is hardly possible for us to live in the walls or filled space and we live only in covered space not built space. More the space merrier we are.

2010

It is so difficult to comprehend as an continuous entity ! We find it so difficult to understand and realise the infinity ! It is like going on an unending passage. You do not know where you are going. You just tread on till your feet can carry you no further. To have an idea about this journey it is essential that you must divide it into segments so that you can understand it and relate to it. It is not possible to actually do so and so you play the trick and divide it in your mind. and flows the imaginary years, days, hours,minutes and seconds. Well come imaginary 2010.

But is there space enough in me to well come 2010 without getting rid of most of the yester years ? What to keep and what to through out to make the space ? That is what each must decide and act for otherwise we will wellcome 2010 without being able to provide space for it. Is it really any welcome ? Or is it the polite way to say no thanks.