AND THE ANGER OF IT ALL !!!

I see anger as a huge red dark cloud, approaching me at a fast pace, almost sucking me in...as vacuum cleaner the dirt....
I am powerless to resist its force...
BUT STOP, my mind is putting on the brakes, and I do this by invoking the divine with a prayer..
Just as the great warriors in the mahabharth would chant a mantra to invoke the weapon, and then let fly the arrow...
I use it in the reverse, as the arrows of anger come twds me, I chant a mantra, or the easiest ,count ten backwards..
Theres a break, and in that fraction the mind escapes the battlefield... to sit byitself and feel the pain of the words,and to decide, is it the ego that is hurting,and even if it is.. to remember that I am beyond the ego, I am my pure self, and all these interactions are like a movie, which I am watching...and to feel the emotion of the momment for that moment ..and then let go of the pain... should we limit ourselves to being frozen forever in that one frame, the scene playing over and over in our mind...or moove on and enjoy the rest of the movie!!
ROLL ON...
Live in love, giving of yourself, as the rose its beauty and fragrance...
Welcome everywhere, whether to beautify , or used in worship..

WHAT THE TIDE TAKES OUT...THE TIDE BRINGS BACK IN..

I was walking along the beach at Goa, in my newly purchased rubber slippers, flirting with the tide at the water's edge. I'd stand get my feet wet, and then come running out...

Next time I'd go a little deeper into the water,and then a little deeper...

AND... before I knew it, one of my slippers got washed out from under my feet.

When I bent down to pick it, I lost my balance, and the other one went too!!

Patiently I stood, looking out at the sea, hating the idea of doing the long trek back on the dirty beach...

As I stood looking ,enjoying the play of the waves..what do I see?

One of my slippers come bobbing back to me...I pick it up and wait, convinced that the other will come back to, and sure enough it does!!

Which made me reflect...That what the tide takes out, it brings back in..just have the patience to wait to receive.....

And I looked back to instances in my life.....and it was so true..

Things, events ,which when one was so distraught at their going away, were a blessing, because when the universe brought them back, one had learnt so much from their absence..

A simple example:

When one's children go away for higher studies how distraught we as parents get; yet when they return, aren't we happy with what life has made of them?