What Surprises & What Inspires You?
What surprises you? “Man surprises me the most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” – The Dalai Lama
What inspires you? I am personally inspired by the precision, excellence, mathematically accurate, Self-designed chaos of this Universe: that rich and grand symphony unfolding in every breath we take with unrivalled splendour, majesty and Grace! What has humanity invented, what have we made, what are we so proud of, that can even begin to rival That perfect beauty, That inimitable silence?
Yet, we are part of that grand narrative, infinitesimally small, yet part of it! A little bit of humility, looking beyond one's nose occasionally, ensures that the all pervading enormity of That power is visible in all directions and within!
Give up the chair, sit down on the floor, play like children with new ideas, and look up or within to see the blue sky and then the stars... and gradually dissolve into That "Sacred Silence" of That vast Universe! Enjoy it, you only live this life once, and that too one breath at a time and that breath you just lost isn't coming back my friend!
Go jolly as my Great Spiritual Master used to say... Go jolly! Who knows when the end might come?
All the very best over this coming Christmas period and the New Year!
Love, Peace and Rest
DK Matai and Family
[Image: Impression of the four tails of the Sagittarius D Galaxy -- the orange clump on the left of the image -- orbiting the Milky Way. The bright yellow circle to the right of the galaxy's centre is our Sun (not to scale). The Sagittarius D galaxy is on the other side of the galaxy from us, but we can see its tidal tails of stars -- white in this image -- stretching across the sky as they wrap around our galaxy like ribbons around a gift or present. Credit: Amanda Smith, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge]