Dragon flies usually breed beside clean water streams. The monsoon season is not the best season for them.
When I spotted these dragon flies in our garden, I was more than delighted. It is after a while I have noticed them in our garden.
Dragon flies usually thrive in a clean environment.
If ever we want to observe stillness in the body posture, one has to just watch the dragon flies. In the Buddhist tradition, the monks ask the disciples to keep looking at a dragon fly and learn to remain still. Bodily stillness is a prelude to becoming still in our mind.
I sat down beside a dragon fly and even after half an hour it was still on a twig remaining still! As My mind stayed watching the dragon fly, I sensed how my wandering mind with trafficking of thoughts settled to a level of stillness.
Our thoughts are ours, and yet they have a free access to our conscious mind, often distracting us or competing with what we are currently called to do.
The exercise of mediation among many benefits to our mind and soul, brings a discipline to processing of our thoughts. To be able to bring our thoughts to the subjection of our will and entertain them only as much as we want to, that too when we are ready, is an outcome of finding inner stillness!
Our thoughts crow our mind because they compete for attention. At the same time, it is a good practice to pay attention to out thoughts only when we want to and not when they knock for attention. It is a good practice to live with our mind directed and focussed, and not scattered by every thought, sight or sound that befall us.
There can be a situation when we might feel that we hear but cannot discern, see but cannot perceive, or feel but cannot sense! Such a situation is a sign of crowded mid caught in a restless trap.
To create several short seasons of interior quietness during the in between times or transition from one activity to another is one way to stay composed, reflective and resonant!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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