A night with myself-26th June.
It was unplanned, unthought, and sudden. Went to see someone away from the
residence, incidentally, phone went discharged (the poor old fellow that is),
the dongle was not working too. I just put it in my bag and forget. The colleagues
were involved in their games, chatting, calling, so on, someone told me to keep
always a silent smile on the face so I did the same throughout, went to
kitchen, chopped the onions, cleaned the utensils and got involved fully in
cooking chicken for colleagues. It was nice that I was observing, feeling, and
seeing the things very keenly and deeply as I was in meditation. everybody was chickling,
speaking loudly and I was just silently smiling.
Once I cooked the dinner, I came out and sat there at a corner in front of
fan, the room was saturated with cigarettes smoke thus I sat a place to avoid
it. It was strange that I noticed and saw somethings in my colleagues which I never
noticed earlier, everyone has a story to tell, everyone wants to win the
debate, everyone was making stories and so on. I did not argue but just listened
peacefully. They talked about n numbers of things, right from their married
life to professional life. But I was just smiling.
As if I was in the state of self-control, I felt very light, very clear,
very simple.
After dinner all went for sleep, we chose to sleep in the veranda from
where I could saw the paddy field, so green and beautiful with little sound of
the leaves. Two more people were lying by my both sides. They immediately fell
asleep, I planned to read Socrates-philosophy, I opened my kindle device and
started reading, it was a beautiful read, as I am in Athens (Greece) and I am
seeing him in front of eyes. This is beauty of the clarity of the mind.
It was 2AM and I thought I must sleep then. I closed the device and tried
to sleep, but I could not, I was so silent that I could hear different sounds
around me, the sound of fan, leaves of the plants, some insects, some other unidentified
sounds. I focused on my breathes, how I inhale and exhale the air and the gap
that exist between the interval. I felt a deep emptiness in that gap. A deep
silence. I kept focusing but one thought was continuously striking my mind, I avoided
it but after some time I allowed that to come. I lived with that thought, tried
to trace its origin and I found that it was originating from a past memory, out
of a fear, out of an insecurity. After some time that thought was nowhere
around.
I fell asleep and get up at 4:30AM, opened the gate and went to terrace, it
was beautiful there, surrounded by trees and fields, silence everywhere excepts
some birds. I sit there and tried to go deep inside myself. I find that number
of things are continuously disturbing me. I felt a bit overloaded with those
thoughts and sometimes I get lost in those thoughts. And thoughts are coming
from memories and future imaginations, the present was empty, simple, and
silent.
The whole journey was nice, I saw so many things on the way I never noticed,
the river water produce different sounds at the same time, but rarely listened
earlier. It was nice and a mindful journey. I will try to make my daily life likewise.
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