Hiranmayi

Everyday, the pigeons come to drink the water kept in a bowl in the balcony. They take a sip or a dip sometime and sit for a while and take off. Recently, one day, i noticed one pigeon, trying to pull the dried twigs from the base of the palm tree, succeeded sometimes and took it along and came back swiftly to continue in its mission. So it was obvious it is building the nest. But what brought the turn is amazing. After its  trial with palm tree, it moved on to the other pot which had small flowering plant. Though there were no dried twigs for it to collect, it started to pull the fresh green twigs and since it is a small plant, the whole plant was almost getting uprooted. Since the roots were pretty strong , it could not succeed but had done enough damage to shake it . It didnt stop there but now continued to the next level with its intention to collect the twigs to build its nest. Now, it focused on the tip and was trying to nib it, still could not get them, finally fl...

Unless you know to judge well, you can not perform well -- this is our usual understanding while relating to everyday actions in the world. True, we need to know but we need not go for a judgement but be aware of the distinguishing features. Judgement lets one to polarities --good/bad, favourable/unfavourable, light/darkness etc.. In awareness, it just lets us have a clear picture of happening and not happening. There are no emotional negativity associated with the happenings. There are no disappointments in awareness for there is no expectations. We dont say, if the sun rises at 6am -- thats good and if the sun shows up at 7am its bad. We only say, the sun is up or its on the way. In awareness, instead of just two poles, there is also an ever existing possibility. This or that and also there can be both. So, instead of a sharp cut into two pieces, its like a piece with all possibilities at all times. That exactly lets one to view it moment to moment. Contrast to judgement where it...