Contentment

“The grass is greener on the other side” so think the horses and cows who are confined inside fences. They have no choice but to remain within the boundaries of the fenced paddock and the grass is definitely greener outside the fence.                                                            

                                      

Are we the same? No, we do have choice. We can make change to our walls and fences and we can break-through if we can harness the discriminative faculty of the mind.   

Are we trapped within our own greed? Of our own making? How can we be content if we feel confined? Our desires are stifling us, the constant need for money and more of it creates the hell we call ‘living’.  Choking us to death whilst alive! Surely there has got to be a better way?

Strangely, many people who have spent time confined within jail cells have discovered the most wonderful escape from the enforced prison walls.   THE MIND. IT IS A GREAT TOOL FOR ESCAPE!  

When all else fails there is the Mind.

 How is it done? Pure and simple. Begin by looking at yourself as though in a mirror. See all the blemishes and disfigurements of your thinking. The mirror that you are gazing into is not a physical one, but an internal metaphysical awareness where you can self-study your actions and thoughts and most definitely your feelings.

To break out we definitely need a tool. That Mind is the tool. Physically we may appear to be the same but internally we are radically different. Enlivened, positive, happy and in control.

Constantly check your thoughts and feelings before they grow into actions, just like weeding the vegie patch. If the feeling or thought is one of attachment and need, simply pull it out and throw it on the compost heap.

Let the weeds do some good in nurturing positivity and happiness on the heap of refuse. Pure Contentment is pure happiness. This is your homework from lesson 3 of your Yoga practice.

Weeding! But keep it up because weeds keep growing!         

 Happy Weeding!