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Chapter 2 - Honouring The Practise  Day 9 The mind gallops towards the world of five senses. If you just be quiet, close your eyes, or open ur eyes, or do anything, where does your mind go? It goes towards the sensne of sight. It is the same for the sense the smell, taste, sound, touch.  And this craving for any of these experiences in the mind can prevent you from being in the present moment. Vairagya is retrieving your senses from the craving or from the thirst for something back to its source for a few moments. Then, you will feel that however beautiful a scene is you are not interested in looking at it.  However great the food, you feel that it is not the time for it, that you are not interested in tasting it then. However melodious the music maybe, you do not want to listen to it at that time. It may be wonderful to touch something but then you are not interested in touching it or feeling it at that time. Vairagya may be present for even a few moments....

Syzygium aqueum is a tree of family Myrtaceae native to Malaysia, Southern India, New Guinea and Queensland. Its common names include watery rose apple, water apple, Jambu air and bell fruit. The tree requires heavy rainfalls. In the Philippines, it is locally known as tambis and is often confused with macopa (Syzygium samarangense). The tree is cultivated for its wood and edible fruit. The fruit is a pear shaped, fleshy yellow or red berry which is bell shaped, has a waxy peel and crisp, juicy pulp. The fruit has a very mild and slightly sweet taste similar to apples, and a crisp watery texture like the inside of a watermelon. Fruit is generally seedless, but sometimes may have 1-4 small seeds. It is a staple of Southeast Asian fruit stands, where it is inexpensive while in season. It does not bruise easily and may be preserved for months in a household refrigerator. The fruit skin is rich in Vitamin A. In the past, Malaysian women who had given bir...

Chapter 2 - Honouring The Practise  Day 8  This is another important point - with honour and respect. Sometimes, we grumble when we do something. It is no use of doing something unenthusiastically. That is not abhyasa.  Abhyasa is something done with gratitude, gratefulness, honour and with respect. This is something we lack in our life. We should do everything in life with honour and respect. Even if you do something with honour and respect, it lasts a very short period.  And, if you have to do something over a period of time, you tend to lose that honour and respect. If you have to arrange a stage and, if you're doing it for the first time, you will do it with all honour and respect. You will put in so much attention, so much love, so much heart and awareness.  But if you have to do it everyday for the next five to six months, you will just do it without the spirit with which you did on the first day. As time goes on, you seem to lose that alertnes...

Chapter 2 - Honouring The Practise  Day 7  The mind can never go where you are. A wave can never go to the depth of the ocean. By the time the waves go to the depth, it ceases to be a wave. So the mind can never come to you. The mind can never be you. That is why never mind! You are never the mind. It's superficial.  The moment that mind starts coming towards you, it is not a mind. That's why it's said, "Never Mind." You are accepted there, never the mind. Your mind can never go there. You know you have had this experience often.  The mind keeps on asking questions, "Why, why, why, why?" You feel that something is bothering you is your mind's stuff. At that moment there is alertness, and an awareness dawns. And then there is a relief in the mind. And the more you feel that your questions are just "mind's stuff", more and more you are aware and then, the questions just vanish. This is Abhyasa, this is practice. In the next su...