I am what you can rightly describe as a relaxaholic.A Relaxaholic is the just opposite of a workaholic. But the relaxaholic doesn't relax himself to death. He is not bothered at all for not having something to do. I have been a relaxaholic for some time now. It requires great facility of mind to remain one. The only time I get a bit irritated is when people ask me if I don't get bored.I think it is a question born out of ignorance. One has to be really stupid to get bored when one chooses to do nothing in particular. Boredom creeps into a mind that is devoid of ideas and imagination. What happens to most people is that in their quest of whatever they think brings them happiness , be it wealth, securiy, fame, social status or just something that offers them the excuse to be busy, they forget to nourish their minds - with serious consequences when the day comes when they are not really required by others to perform the job which they foolishly believed only they could do.Then they find themselves completely at sea since they are no longer needed to do the only job they really know. It is a really pathetic situation. As I had already said only stupid people get bored.It was a wise man who said"If I am going to be a prisoner of my mind ,I prefer my cell to be well-furnished." Really wise words, those and applicable to all those workaholics out there whose minds are as blank as the wall they will be left to stare at when they no longer will become indispensable to the very job they thought will remain unfinished if it were not for them.
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Today I got an email with "tchoutchouuu" (noise of old trains in french lol) so I can compare tonight the mind with a train lol an endless train... our thoughts are the wagons... and we have been "trained" to have this train into our head all day long !... sometimes very noisy, sometimes a bit less, but always running fast... but we like it, and even are afraid to lose it and feel so empty... We never take the time to realize that there's a space, a transparent space between the wagons, and when we start to realize it, the space between them is getting wider and wider... then the train starts to slow down and the wagons go on getting more spaced away... And... one day what a peace, what a joy when we discover that the unstoppable train has completely vanished and the mind is silent, quiet...and we can see, perceive the whole landscape, the whole space around... and never get bored !... and of course, useful trains can still be created and run when we need or wish, from this space, we are then the free driver ... 
 | govindan [Member] 04/20/08 @ 18:14 |
Trains here also go "tchoutchouuu' (lol). You have said something really profound. What I said was that if the mind is fertile, then there is no scope for boredom to creep in even when one does not seem to be doing anything in particular.But you have gone several steps ahead when you say that one not only does not get bored but can be very happy if the mind is devoid of all thoughts.Such a state is most desirable and you are very special if you ever could experience it.
 | roselyne19 [Member] 04/21/08 @ 18:17 |
You're right, the mind may be very fertile...
I am not special and everyone can realize it if one really wants to come back to his true nature that has ever be and will be... and no need to meditate during 20 years ! but the "straight way"...
Living here and now, yes... but there's a big misunderstanding about "here" as instead of watching "here", we generally watch "there" : what is around us... but here is, when we point our index at our face (this is an interesting true experience to do, and do again and again) and keep in attentiveness, what is ? who is truly making this experience ? is there truly someone here ? or is there Nothing here but a space, a clear space without any boundaries ?
Nothing to do with the mind but realizing during a few minutes, regularly, this space, this Emptyness that is who we truly are is the beginning of the space between the wagons... and just "watch" a thought when it comes and let it go quietly and vanish... no struggle...
Then, we can also watch there, keeping "here"...
Very true. I love that quote!
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