There is no conflict among bromeliads; there is no anguish among the roses, or anxieties among jasmine. They meet the fate of their blooming time and the freshness to say goodbye when it's time.
By welcoming the falling rain and extracting what is essential for them. They receive the sun and wind, and die on their time.
Simplicity is a concept that brings us to the purest form of reality. The seed is simple because it does not get lost in the attempt of wanting to be flower prematurely.
Wanting much at a time is to get lost in the tangle of desires. There is a risk of not getting anything, because the effort and care is what makes the reality remains.
Try walking lighter. Carry less baggage when traveling, reserving your energy for sightseeing. By traveling heavy we run the risk of spending our energy in the transport of the luggage.
Those who cultivate simplicity have the facility to make the environment in which they live lighter.
They don’t create confusion for little things, don’t put their attention on what is accidental, but hold their eyes for what are really worth it.
Simple people are those who enjoy the smaller things... It's like drinking water on the hollow of the hands .
They are able to laugh in the face of symbolic gifts without much material value.
Giving gifts to complicated people is a challenge. We don’t know what they like, because only in the simplicity is possible to know someone. Even facing death the simple ones tend to die more easily. They feel that the time has come for them, deliver his last breathe and go.
I have a hunch that when we simplify our life, happiness will come to our house when we least expect it.
The credits for those wonderful pictures are for Sushant Singhal, which inspired me to write this post.
Simplycity is the essence of good living. Ask from those who spent their life with real peace and happiness, they were those who spent it with simplicity.
ReplyDeleteToday on GANDHI's Birthday if we learn about simplicity, it will be graet honour to that simple man. Gandhiji prepared his cloth himself with the thread which he himself make with the help of CHARKHA. Everyday he himself take milk from goat. He washed his cloth himself. What a great man he was just because of his simplicity.
Secrets of life and beauty are in understanding the inter-relationships among various components of a whole being. Panchtatva - air, water, earth, sky and fire do not hold the key to life. The key is in their meeting at right time and in right proportion. Either alone or in out of proportion, each of them is capable of mass destruction. All of us know that a seed will turn into a plant only if water, air, heat, soil are available to it in desired proportion only.
ReplyDeleteEither of extremes cause cyclones / asphyxiation, floods / droughts, fire/killing chills etc. As regards the beauty, it lies in rhyme and rhydhm, balance, poise, perfect synchronisation, harmony and symmetry. If there is a musical/ dance/ gymnastic/ athletic or similar other performance, it is outstanding only when all the members of the team are in perfect synch with each other. Let only one member of the group fall out of line and the entire effect is destroyed. If I have to take the photo of a rose, I would search for one in which not even a single petal is out of tune with others.
By the way, thank you very much for using my pictures so nicely. You have made them precious.
“The difference between the medicine and the poison lies on the dose”
ReplyDeleteThis interdependence among all elements is what makes the miracle of life happens every day.
It’s Just like human body, all members are essential. The hands are not hands if they don’t have fingers and the fingers are not fingers if they don’t have nails. As you well said, Sushant, the key is their meeting in the right time and in right proportion, this is the miracle of life happening in front of our eyes and many times we don’t notice it.
How many mysteries are hidden behind appearances! Think about that rose you would pick for your photograph: Not only a single petal out of tune with others; beautiful and perfect. But for it to become perfect the rosebush must have provided to it the essential nectar, extracting from the soil all components, and leading them to the forming beauty. Caring is essential, although many times forgotten. You would click only in the rose and the rosebush would be apart…for not being so attractive to the eyes witch see only superficially.
Thanks Ajay and Sushant for your comment.