Patience.

Patience does not mean taking things slower or letting this happen to you. Patience means not letting adverse circumstances (people treating you badly, health problem etc.) defeat you. Do not admit defeat.

To retain energy, to be up and doing, calmly, dust yourself off and get back into the struggle, without reacting – without reacting does not mean inert, you will do what is necessary – is patience.

Patience does not mean repressing emotions. It is to channelise your energy. Immediate reaction is to be avoided.

Swami Vivekananda says: Humlity is not being low and accepting and humble. Humility is not being a dormat. Humility is being the goodness and greatness in other people. He says patience is strength. What is strength? Not to thrash another person. But to stop reacting. It is easy to fidget, it takes strength to sit still. Its easy to reply immediately, it taken strength to hold back. Its easy to think become anxious about a situation, it takes strength to be calm.

I will not be anxious. I will do what is needed whatever is possible. That not-reacting – physical, verbal, mental, that is strength, this is patience.

While riding a chariot to let the horses run amok is strength or to hold them back and guide them is strength?

Its more strength to hold back and guide it. To gain mastery of body, speech and mind is strength. This is manifested as patience.

All great men seem impatient because they are energetic. But being energetic and impatient are two difference things. Tremendous energy focused on something leads to greatness.

Kabir Das –

मन लागो मेरो यार फकीरी में

जो सुख पावो राम भजन में,

सो सुख नाही अमीरी में ॥

भला बुरा सब का सुन लीजै,

कर गुजरान गरीबी में ॥

आखिर यह तन ख़ाक मिलेगा,

कहाँ फिरत मगरूरी में ॥

The pleasure I get in the hymn of lord Rama; cannot be found in wealth

Bad or good, accept every facet (of life), make your both ends meet in poverty

At the end of the day, this body will meet the soil; what’s there in being egotist

Kabir has said (to all mankind), you’ll find the Divinity while being patient.

Life and Death – Thich Nhat Hanh

Extract from the Buddhist monk’s book No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering:

One unnecessary suffering that we can let go of is the suffering of fear. So many of us walk around with the pain and agitation of useless fear, whether that is the fear of dying, fear of hunger, injury or loss, fear of what might happen if we do the wrong thing, or fear of being hurt by or of hurting someone we care about.

Many people suffer due to the fear of dying. We want to live forever. We fear annihilation. We don’t want to pass from being into nonbeing. This is understandable. If you believe that one day you will cease to exist altogether, it can be very scary. But if you take the time to still the activities of body and mind and look deeply, you may see that you are dying right this very moment. You think that you will die in a few years, or twenty years, or thirty years. That’s not true. You are dying now. You have been dying all the time. It’s actually very pleasant to die, which is also to live.

There are many cells inside your body that are dying as you read these words. Fifty to seventy billion cells die each day in the average human adult. You are too busy to organize funerals for all of them! At the very same time, new cells are being born, and you don’t have the time to sing Happy Birthday to them. If old cells don’t die, there’s no chance for new cells to be born. So death is a very good thing. It’s very crucial for birth. You are undergoing birth and death in this very moment.

While most people are intensely afraid of dying, there are also people who are weary of living. They get bored after fifty, seventy, or maybe only twenty or thirty years. They find life unbearable and are seeking nonbeing. Some of them think that suicide is a way to end the suffering and to pass from the realm of being into nonbeing. Both of these preconceptions cause suffering because they ignore the reality that life and death always go together. You can’t take one out of the other. Even after your so-called death, you will continue in some way.

Deep looking can dismantle these kinds of notions. There is no birth and death; everything dies and renews itself all the time. When you get that kind of insight, you no longer tire yourself out with anxiety and aversion.

Danish – Colours Rules

When used to describe a neuter gender noun such as æblet the adjective is suffixed with -t and becomes grønt.

If the color (or in general adjective) is used with a definite noun, then it is put between the definite article and the noun: En rød bil (a red car) becomes den røde bil (the red car). In this case the adjective is declined the same way as for the plural, no matter the grammatical number or gender of the noun.

Det er mit morkebla aeg
morkegron

en morkerod vin

har du et lyseblat aeg

Pigen har en lyserod kjole og morkerode sko

Fuglen har et lysegront aeg

Jeg har dine morkegronne nederdele

Det er mit morkebla aeg

I am eating your pink strawberry = Jeg spiser dit lyserode jordbaer

Random Observations – 08/02/2022

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.”
— Seneca

You are living as if destined to live for ever; your own frailty never occurs to you; you don’t notice how much time has already passed, but squander it as though you had a full and overflowing supply – though all the while that very day which you are devoting to somebody or something may be your last. You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire. You will hear many people saying: ‘When I am fifty I shall retire into leisure; when I am sixty I shall give up public duties.’ And what guarantee do you have of a longer life? Who will allow your course to proceed as you arrange it? Aren’t you ashamed to keep for yourself just the remnants of your life, and to devote to wisdom only that time which cannot be spent on any business? How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!

– On The Shortness of Life, Seneca

Anxiety and Death

चिता चिंता समाप्रोक्ता बिंदुमात्रं विशेषता|

सजीवं दहते चिन्ता निर्जीवं दहते चिता॥

Only a dot separates funeral pyre (chita) and worry (chinta) otherwise they are said to be similar; the former destroys a dead body while the latter destroys a living person.

Interesting Quotes

“Regulations are like pebbles in a river. Each one feels inconsequential, but eventually you end up with so many of them that the water can’t flow anymore” – David Perell

“to study philosophy was to annex the past into our own time.” – Seneca

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. – Marcus Aurelius