A comfortable life.

Waking up in a comfortable bed. Comfortable sheets. Comfortable feelings. Driving in a comfortable car. Strong enough to protect me, warm enough so I don t feel cold, fast enough so I can get wherever I want quickly, efficient enough so the fuel it’s not that expensive.

Comfortable work. Comfortable society. Comfortable everything.

But then I want to feel alive. I want an exciting life. I want to feel strong and be disciplined. I want a quiet mind. I want to rule my life.I want change.

But everything is scary. Giving up to the old and throwing yourself into the unknown.

If it where for you to see your whole life that waits ahead, if the future would be all predictable, would you still find it mysterious? Would you still want to keep it, or would you change it?

Where is the beauty in predictable things? 

We were preoccupied for too long to create a safe environment around us. But it seems this environment is putting us to sleep.

Very small steps of evolution or not at all. For when you were born 5 senses were given to you in order to survive, for everything else you had to thrive. You want to play a guitar, or surf, or write poetry, paint, Climb Mountains, run for extended periods of time. No matter which passion or hobby you chose, it came from you getting out from this comfort. Every morning waking up is an effort, getting out of your comfort zone and the difference between mediocre and excellency is a question of how many efforts are you willing to do, how discipline can you get.

You needed a certain effort to achieve everything. A certain discipline and courage. You may think money can buy everything. But they are not buying your discipline. You may be doing a lot of money, but your health and mental state is questionable. Nobody is going to do the abdomens for you, or meditation for you.

It simply does not work like that. You have to do everything for yourself. You may get some help. But the effort is on you. You can be the richest or poorest person on earth, the body doesn’t care, gravity doesn’t care, laws of universe doesn’t care. People with some character will not care, the only ones who will care is those who need something from you, those who see in you a solution, not a human being, a solution.

So after all isn’t a comfortable life that we want?

Yes but with too much comfort gets you lazy, you get in a state from which is hard to make any change. Why would you limit yourself to what you are today. Repeating the same pattern with no awareness will get you bored to death.

Bored enough so you don’t enjoy, but not enough for you to change. Just a pity little life.

Don’t waste all your energy on improving your car, home, bank account because there is no end to it and there is something more in life than that. You will think happiness hides in all these material things. But every time you get something you just want something more.

Improve yourself as a human being.

“So you get your study, you get a family, you raise on this social system, you get a job, you become a CEO, you have millions. Is this the way a human life should be lived like? Is this the pride we take with our life?”

It seems like we are just adding layers upon layers, to protect ourselves. We construct more and more of what we are. Adding more and more impurities and false identities.

We are protecting ourselves from experiencing life, because we don t want to get hurt by it. We don’t want to look like fools, we don’t want our ego to be hurt.

Try making love, while having an astronaut costume on you . In order to enjoy something a certain state of “nakedness” is needed, a certain purification of the body and mind.

Is like we are numb to life, emotions and all the things makes us human.. Too much protection is killing you slowly. We poison ourselves with food, thoughts and actions. You are a dead zombie, experiencing life while losing connection with everything that matters, detaching, not involved into anything.

Swami Muktananda says : ” if you wear shoes everywhere you go the whole earth feels like leather.”

It is not about protection, but rather “getting undress”, losing all these layers you have built around you. Let your humanity experience creation. Taking a cold shower, put yourself to strange situation, be yourself and stop overthinking every single action.

Whenever you’re about of doing something, you have already visualized the outcome of your actions. You cannot see the future. It may be close, but never what you have thought.

Even God has created things step by step, day by day, totally involved in what he was doing, but he took pleasure in them after doing them. Now he can be the only one seeing the future, but even he is always present. He doesn’t say “I will create humans, wait, what is the purpose of this? they will go to hell anyway :))) ”

I don’t think the future is set on stones. I think the future is malleable. This is the right you have and the freedom you were born into. To construct and influence the world in the way you want. So you can also leave a print to this world. Some small contribution. Have good intentions, totally absorbed by what you do, be present in the present 🙂 a more sensitive human being.

And if you think is to hard or to many things to do in order to change, just begin practicing yoga and evolution will happen either you want it or not. The beautiful thing about yoga is that it has patience, he grows slowly on you. When you go to fast she is slowing you down, when is to less it will bring desires for more. But it has patience, waiting for you, for every gift she sends is for whenever you are ready to deal with it.

You can push the body and mind, using different products, but sometimes you are pushing everything to much, for something that the body may not be ready, you are creating a lot of imbalances in the body. Yoga is safe, it waits and it grows.

And whenever you’re prepared and work your way enough, you will get mukti, moksha, liberation, but in between enough glimpses of nirvana to keep you on the track.