What you are is what you think. We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world. I remember Vesak Day with this note from Buddha.

How We Usually See

If you happen to be in a high-rise building you can see the panaromic view of your surrounding. While in a plane you can see the bigger picture. But it is not easy to see the bigger picture if our thinking is trapped in our own paradigm of untruth.

Once I was with my friend and stumbled upon a fruit shop. We were attracted by its ambience. I said to my friend, ‘hey look at this bunch of grapes, shiny and glossy’. My friend replied that the fruit seller was cheating as he dipped the bunch of grapes into water to make it heavy.: thus selling less fruit for the same price. But, I really thought the water is to make it appear fresh. What do you think?

Our everyday thinking is more or less in that direction. We see the good in it and we see the bad points. Religions say of the after life and the existence of heaven and hell. The same duality we find in every aspect of our own thinking.

In marriage we weigh between the benefits of staying within the wedlock rather than getting a divorce and facing the traumas out of it. In stabilising our finance we try our very best to stay affluent by saving much than spending and taking the bite of frugal living. In a job we expect a pay rise year after year and find job satisfaction around wage increase. In business we see only the profit margin and shirk the responsibility of giving value to customers. In health we become too anxious of everything and did not enjoy living. In education we pursue studies that are there to take without a choice for your inborn passion for an activity.

How To See?

Until we see the ambit of the universe, we are always logically suggesting theories. There is no final truth. It is the end that matters. From there what it leads to?

A millionaire is a millionaire as he ask for a milliion dollars. A beggar is a beggar who ask for only 2 dollars. A beggar is an opportunist as he asks what is easily given. He does not have to work hard like the millionaire. A beggar knows that if he sits in one corner in a busy street he can earn a couple of dollars for the day. He sees the fruit of begging than the senseless stigma society puts on an unaccepted activity.

Even two identical twins lead a different lifestyle. Perception is what makes us different. Perception is like staying in in different levels of a skyscrapper. As we go higher we see things differently and perception gets wider. The highere we go we are led to different thinking.

Change Your Brain

Seeing is not believing. Thinking is all about perception. If a perception has a use it has to adopted. If it has use then it is better to change your perception to the useful one.

Gargabe is repulsive and useless. So we discard it. It has been discovered that garbage can be used again as a cleansing agent. Read here.

Albert Einstein said that great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. So change your perception for better living.