12 Quotes by Shukla Ji

 Perhaps, it is the words, and in turn, the many meanings that divide us. Neither the body nor the mind; Neither the distance nor the time, just words.

Meditation is a transaction, you take back energy from the moments that drained you and give them a new meaning.

I imagine standing in the center of this house of mirrors and looking at my infinite reflections.Each of the personalities we live, if they are just reflections on the mirror, then they are illusions. What we strive for is to unlearn the vocabulary, energy, and awareness of each of these reflections to reach our dissolving ‘self’, the one standing in the center. The observer.

Everything in that flow – the many pains and pleasures – are just an ephemeral burst of energy. At the end of it, they are as much on the fabric of nothingness as life. It means nothing. We mean nothing. The atman has a purpose, not the identity we assume.

The baggage of past memories, the present contradictions, and the many choices from the future. “They are all just words,” I say, as I become aware of my breath. My bong feels ignored, my mind feels betrayed and the incessant pain in my chest ceases. I drop everything.I let go.

Our actions within, build our health. Our actions beyond, build our wealth.

When we become self-aware, we realize what kind of partner will be happy with us. More than our happiness, we respect the happiness of the other, and in that, we find the right kind of love.

Our ego feeds on the validation of others, our self feeds on evolution with others. That our purpose, perhaps, is to survive but survival here is not to cut the throat of ‘others’ but to evolve with them.

Kill the Buddha. In the desire of becoming Buddha, you walk away from it. To desire peace is to invite conflict. To pursue calm is to ruffle up anger within. Don’t you get it? You are in conflict to remove conflict.