Beauty in small things

Beauty in small things

Have you ever cared to look at a tiny wild flowers besides
the trail you walk daily up and down.?
Looking at them and you may wonder at their beauty so vivid in colors and shapes.

So far a flower meant to you something big.
You had a definite shape and size in mind.
You trampled tiny flowers because to you they were not flowers.
Usually we admire big things. We are lost in searching for big things in life,
a big house, a big car, a big garden.and so on.
How can such a mind, see the elegance
of small things, small acts, small events?
While reading this, stop for a second and listen to a chirping of a bird.
Look at the ant running on your table. Look at the tiny dew drops in a morning hanging at the end of leaves,
ready to fall down with the next wind.

When you wash your plate do it whole heartedly.
Enjoy a kind word some one speaks to you. Enjoy the greetings of others in a morning as you walk into the office. Enjoy the smiles of people passing by.
Life is full of small enjoys, moments of happiness, beauties and blessings.
Focusing on them will open a world so far you had forgotten.

Know the joys Life.

Our present concept of joy seems so rude and primitive.
We think that joy comes at the end of an achievement, not otherwise.
If you really seek joy in life the first step is to know it at the moment it arises.
We can of course identify big joys. However many a small joys go unnoticed.
Big joys are rare indeed in life. But small joys are abundant.
They are like the tiny flowers you trample on grass while walking.

Be sensitive to small joys.
Practise it as a meditation.
Go to a silent place..
Free your mind from the past and future .
Let go all the burdens. Feel free.
Come to the present movement.
When the mind is free and unoccupied with things of the thoughts,
Joy starts emerging out as a secret spring from the depth of your being.

Focus on joy arising from the inner being and get absorbed into it.
Joy arises in various qualities like the different perfumes.
Your mind needs to be subtle to make out them.
Being sensitive to subtle joys makes you inwardly rich, because joy is the wealth in life.

Excerpts from: 'Ocean in a drop of water'