Meditation

No one needs to give me a special class to make me understand about the importance and effect of meditation. I am totally convinced about the meditation. I love to meditate even though I am not a regular and successful meditator. But my hard task in my life was to find a time to meditate.

As per the time table and the common understanding it is the morning hours that are best to meditate. Almost 90% of the literature about meditation and suitable time to meditate reiterates the principle and usefulness to meditate in the morning. Here I don’t intent to make a research about that.

But I was a total failure in this case as I am not comfortable at meditating in the morning. I am a night owl actually and not an early bird. My eyes are not fully open early in the morning and my brain functions very less and slow in the early hours. Even my body doesn’t support my early activities. But lately I learned that I don’t meditate anymore. Am I an exception? This thought disturbed my mind as I see around me here in the friary that all brothers here get up early in the morning and are very much awake.

I tried my best these days to change myself and my habit of staying late at night and to be active in morning. But I terribly failed and my body and mind did not cooperate to this. Then I tried to speak with my colleagues at the university and I learned another fact that most of them are like me. They are more occupied with the books late in the evening rather than at day.

So in the end I changed the timing of meditation. Not only that I am awake and active with the books and all my work in the evening, I am meditating also in the evening.

In one of the articles in the hubpages.com, ‘The best time to meditate’ I read so “I feel the most important factor in deciding the best time of day to practice meditation, is when is the time it works best. If during your meditation practice you are not really yet awake enough, or conversely are already too tired, it's not the best time to be meditating. Equally if your time feels pressure and you are trying to squeeze meditation in, it's unlikely to be very satisfactory”. 

The best time for me is in the evening.

It reduplicates.........

Face down in the pillow………..

This is the year ending gift

Thanks to my sentience

Why this year leave me so?

Leaving a year and leaving a love

How long to run to erase the memory?

Memories run faster, soaked in memory

Need to cover the castles from my sight

Protect my eyes from all clasped hands

I loved bracelets but the sight of this bracelet….

Round big eyes of the cats……

Flying angels and hearts

All need to be sunk deep in a bottle of whisky

But they still keep on asking

When will I again wait on a woman?

2011 and 2012, Thanks and an expectation.

The year 2011 was very special to me personally. It opened my eyes and opened up new horizons. I learned a lot from others. If 2010 gave me a change of place, 2011 gave me a change in my thinking. Broad in accommodating each and every one with everything of theirs. What is thought or considered to be strange in others are turned to be something that is unique in them. Everyone has the right to live their own life with the freedom of expression in the way they like and all that they are convinced of. It is not to pour myself into the mould of traditional norms and customs but to melt the traditional cultural norms and customs, also the unwritten rules and expectations into the mould of personality you and I developed in the course of time. So I had so many good and beautiful moments last year. What can 2012 offer me? Of course, also to you all? Need to coin a motto for this year soon in five days and march into this year with full confidence. I am aiming at some goals specifically. To be ‘trans-national’ and ‘trans-religious’.  Hope my studies in political science and religious science are steering at a right direction.