[Reader-list] Quieting the Monkey Mind

[Partha Dasgupta]

Hi Dhatri,

Just so that I'm clear in my mind, some questions

1.  Does your post signify that we should change the caste based hierarchy
     or that we should not?

2.   I certainly agree that crying over 'spilt milk' won't help. However, if
you have
      an old wound that is troubling you, ignoring it is counter productive.
At the
      end of the day, everything boils down to the issue that if it is a
healing scab,
      then let it be - however, if it is a fracture or something more
serious, then it
      needs medical attention.

3.   Besides monkeys, jihad and changing street names, what was the point of
this post.

Rgds, Partha
................

On 9/16/07, we wi <dhatr1i at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "The monkey mind jumps from thought to thought like a monkey jumps from
> tree to tree. Rather than existing in the present moment, the monkey mind
> focuses on one thought after another, and these thoughts distract us from
> exisiting in the present, which is one of the goals of yoga.   Sitting in
> meditation is a good way to see the monkey mind in its natural habitat. Just
> sitting still and clearing the mind is so challenging. You observe one
> thought popping up, and another, and another. This is inevitable, especially
> when you are getting started. The trick is to learn to observe the thoughts
> without engaging in them. An analogy I like is to see the mind as the sky
> and the thoughts like clouds passing through.   Whether you are meditating
> or practicing asanas, returning your attention again and again to the breath
> will always help you detach from the thoughts and return to the present
> moment. Each inhale and exhale exists only in the present. When you are
> doing asanas, remind
> yourself to use Ocean Breathing (Ujjayi) each time you catch yourself
> thinking. "
>
>    As the monkey handled in better way in the above, so as the
> perpetrators and their actions.  Atricities in the name of jihad will never
> be treated as simple childish moves and so as the shouters. Caste based
> system is there in India, like wise Racism in the rest of the
> world.  Fighting for them is no way usefull except to turn the things
> perpetrators favour to make things more worsen.  Start thinking to build
> unique nation INDIA and participate constructively in its development for
> the sake of all Indians.  Changing place names,killing people,wiping out
> sanskrit universities, lamenting monuments wont help in any way.
>
>
>
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