Have you ever wondered why emergencies make heroes out of ordinary people?
This insight from The Power of Now, provides us the reasoning for this riddle. Focusing on the PRESENT is the ONLY option available DURING an EMERGENCY.
This is the very reason seemingly ORDINARY PEOPLE come out all guns blazing and do TASKS which seem unthinkable.
The COVID 19 crisis and the Corona warriors bear ample testimony to this fact.
Human mind’s natural inclination is to reflect on the past and think about the future. The reason why you should not let your mind dominate you has been mentioned in this insight.
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Read this insight to understand why you need to observe your own thoughts and emotions to course correct as needed.
Eckhart Tolle mentions the virtues of observing our own thoughts and emotions in his book The Power of Now.
Not only does this make us think about the PRESENT it helps us diagnose problems going on in our mind to course correct as needed.
Read another useful insight from the book The Power of Now.
Buddha has articulated in very simple terms the solution to lead a happy life in this thought of his taking Pain versus Desire into account. Read this insight to know more about Buddha’s take on Pain versus Desire.
Even Karma Yoga says that do your Karma with the best of intentions and expect nothing in RETURN.
This is truly the KEY to leading a HAPPY life free of strife and duress.
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Zen Buddhists associate the moment of arrival of INSIGHTS to a word known as SATORI.
In the book Power of Now, the word SATORI finds a mention.
As you see from the following snippet, insight is arrived at only through CONSCIOUSNESS in a state of NO MIND.
Do you know Why the Human Mind Hates the Now or the present moment?
This is quirk of the human mind but something we need to be cognizant of.
Eckhart Tolle enlightens us on this quirk in his book The Power of Now.
This is why focusing on the NOW or the PRESENT moment is an ART.