Mind and Its Training

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Mind, is a product of the impressions we have gathered so far in our lives, from the beginning onwards to date. Goaded by these impressions, an irresistible mind, wild and surging, drives us endlessly crazy. Only with thorough knowledge of the strategies of the mind and a full control of ourselves, we can hold the mind back to the point of concentration.

In one sense training the mind is to train it to behave. It is like catching a wild horse and turning it into a circus horse to do feats to order. How is it done?

Swami Vivekananda teaches:

Before we control the mind we must study it. The easiest way to get hold of the mind is to sit quiet and let it drift where it will for a while. Make no effort to control the thoughts, but watch them as a calm lake stretched before you and the thoughts come and go as bubbles rising and breaking on its surface. This will gradually lessen the circle of thoughts. We shall be surprised to see, when we begin this practice, how many hideous thoughts will come to our mind. As the practice continues the turbulence of the mind may increase at times, but with our sincere efforts the mind will become a circus horse.

Buddha teaches:

Nothing is more exhausting than a wrestling mind. Meditation is the only way to calm down one’s mind. By training the mind “we can transform the way we think, speak and act”. Mind training is not mere calming the thoughts; it is a way of going beyond to experience one’s innate natural self and radiance.

Let’s identify a meditation technique that is best suitable for us, purse it earnestly to Let Mind Run The Body.

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Let Mind Run The Body

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This morning, I went out in the streets of Indiranagar. Yes, I haven’t run long-stretch for a fairly long time. When I started last weekend, I wasn’t able to complete my full target of 1hr on the roads, but today I could do it. Yes, I did.

When I sat back relaxed to give it a thought, I realised that, I could achieve that only because of the Mind Training I did last night about the morning’s long run.

Mind Training…??? What’s that…???

Simple, it is some thing like preparing little ones for school. Yes, indeed lots of preparation happen much before a child goes to school. Parents enthrall their children with interesting stories and create pleasant fantasies in the young minds about school, new friends, play ground, sing, dance and learn. When an impression that, “Going to school and learning is fun” is created, then the child’s self confidence and motivation level ascends and now, the child starts waiting eagerly for the first day at school.

Likewise, training our mind becomes essential when we are running towards greater dreams and goals in life.

When mind and body are not completely aligned into one single goal or mission, most of the time body takes control. This is what happened in my previous weekend; my body was running the mind. Body is least interested in stretch targets, it’s more comfortable in accepting something less than what it is capable of without any pain involved.

But, this weekend it’s the other way. Mind was running the body. Hence I was able to complete my stretch target. Surprisingly I noticed that, mind sincerely listens to the body as well and adjusts its pace accordingly without stretching the body too much.

All this is because of Mind Training I did the previous night.

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

- Winston Churchill

Ok, let's talk about how to do "Mind Training" in my next post

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Dutch Made Holland – A Lesson for Life

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The moment I stepped out of Schipol Airport in Amsterdam at 2PM on 1st Dec, I ran into the coolest weather that I’ve ever experienced in my life. I don’t think I can explain in plain word, that’s an experience to be felt, especially for someone from southern part of the sub continent. Thank goodness my friend was there to pick me up from Airport. We took a train to Nijmegen and on the way…….Oh Yeah; I’ve been talking about this all through the holidays and started here aswell.

Ok…coming to the business….yes, Dutch Leadership…!!!

In Netherlands they have a saying

“God made the Earth, but the Dutch made Holland”

Located at the mouth of the Rhine River, the Netherlands is a gateway to northwestern Europe and participates in the European common currency, the euro. Rotterdam, the world's and busiest general-cargo port, includes Europoort, a petroleum-refining center. When we are just talking of defending the fishermen folks and their villages from sea much after the horrific Tsunami devastation, Dutch started their defenses against sea much before almost 800 years ago. They built Dikes and Levies to protect their landscape from Invasion by the surrounding sea, as more than 60 percent of land is much below the sea level. Dutch water authorities (Rijkswaterstaat - in Dutch Language) are supposed to be the most advanced and admirable in water management. Interesting information I heard is, about 60 percent of the country is farmed with super-efficiency by just 2 percent of the population. Wow….that’s really amazing.

Hey..As I am writing this post, it is reminding me of a school time story 'The Hero of Haarlem", a nameless Dutch boy saves his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike and stays there all night, in spite of the cold.

Lucky to be there on the Christmas month, entire country was colorful with lot of decorations and gifts around. Though they celebrate Christmas in a splendid way, one will hardly find crowd in the Churches even on Sunday mornings, as most Dutch are not really regular in visiting Churches and almost more than 80 percent of the people I me don’t really have any great faith in God. May be they were busy in building dikes to protect their beautiful country against the sea, which still continues as a tradition.

Yes, I believe this is a great lesson for us; those striving to achieve great things in this world. Let’s not blame God or hold Him responsible for the happenings around us. Let’s be courageous enough to take things in our hands and have control over them. No one else can help us as truly as oneself.

Just by modifying the Dutch saying let’s say

“God made me in the Earth, but I made my Life”

Wish you a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year.

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Anbusivam