over the years meditation gave me the glimpse of several things, that our brain is the source of what we are and i have two personalities, one is good side and the other is chattering mind. my mission as a human being is to exclude my chatter side of the mind and improve my good side through meditation.
recently i read a book by Dr Jill bolte Taylor. she is a brain scientist and a stroke survivor.
she go through the details of the day of the stroke and ten years of recovery from it through her trained scientific point of view. she gave me the seal of approval of my lifestyle which i choose to live with meditation and lot of gratitude.
as soon as i finished the book i requested my family that in case i am seriously sick, please do read this book and handle me compassionately because even though something or anything visibly damaged like Language, physical appearance or reaction of medications, my walk, my gestures i am going to be there to recover with your help and that help is nothing but a total compassion towards me and the knowledge of how to behave around a wounded person!!
cover from http://mystrokeofinsight.com/index.html
I used to wonder all the time as far as i know I am a good and compassionate person by nature and I know that very well, then why my face, my brows, my actions are visibly rigid and why I project myself that way to family and public?
This book gave me the glimpse of why I act or say something negative when I am not at all feeling like that deep inside.
she says in the book
"Regardless of the garden I have inherited, once I consciously take over the responsibility of tending my mind, I choose to nurture those circuits that I want to grow, and consciously prune back those circuits I prefer to live without. Although it is easier for me to nip a weed when it is just a sprouting bud, with determination and perseverance, even the gnarliest of vines when deprived of fuel, will eventually lose it's strength and fall to the side. Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning."
picture from http://mystrokeofinsight.com/index.html
I show this brain illustration to my 7 year old son and he just love it and couldn't stop talking about it and he said, Now i know why sometimes i feel sad and it takes time to be happy again, so amma it seems like i am not supposed to cross that bridge and go to the left side, i have to be on the right side which keeps me peaceful.
My daughter look at me and said what did you do to him? i said, i just explain to him a very important and crucial information which he never going to learn in school.
This book gave me the glimpse of why I act or say something negative when I am not at all feeling like that deep inside.
she says in the book
"Regardless of the garden I have inherited, once I consciously take over the responsibility of tending my mind, I choose to nurture those circuits that I want to grow, and consciously prune back those circuits I prefer to live without. Although it is easier for me to nip a weed when it is just a sprouting bud, with determination and perseverance, even the gnarliest of vines when deprived of fuel, will eventually lose it's strength and fall to the side. Enlightenment is not a process of learning, it is a process of unlearning."
picture from http://mystrokeofinsight.com/index.html
I show this brain illustration to my 7 year old son and he just love it and couldn't stop talking about it and he said, Now i know why sometimes i feel sad and it takes time to be happy again, so amma it seems like i am not supposed to cross that bridge and go to the left side, i have to be on the right side which keeps me peaceful.
My daughter look at me and said what did you do to him? i said, i just explain to him a very important and crucial information which he never going to learn in school.
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