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Daily life is relationships, both the relationships we have with one
another and the one we have with ourselves. Ideally, clarity, compassion
and love should characterize these relationships. It is often easier to
love and respect others than one's self. Relationships are mirrors to
use for self-learning, enquiry and investigation. Through that very learning,
radical transformation of one's life can take place. If our relationships
are unclear, confusion and conflict will affect our well-being.
Emotions, like anger, fear or anxiety, arise from reactions to our
daily relationships. These reactions appear due to inattention to the
moment. Each person needs to pay total attention to his or her thoughts,
feelings and emotions. If they don't, these will be undigested and just
as capable of poisoning the body as bad food combinations are. Each emotion
is a bio-chemical response to a challenge and may provoke the doshas.
Fear and anxiety will provoke vata, anger and hate upset pitta balance
and attachment and greed will aggravate kapha.
Meditation plays a most important part in daily life and is a powerful
tool to help maintain health. While the dictionary says that the term
meditation means to think, to ponder, to go through and examine, this
definition does not impart the profound meaning of the word at all. Meditation
is an action of clear perception, an observation with total awareness
and without any conclusion, judgement or criticism. Meditation demands
that you be utterly one with the moment. In this oneness, there is radical
change in one's psyche. In this moment-to-moment awareness, there is a
cleansing of the body, mind and consciousness. This will bring you to
that state of peace, which is joy, bliss and enlightenment. At this point,
life becomes a movement of spontaneous meditation.
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