Yoga Report

It struck me as simple and yet so perfect, May you reach love, happiness and truth. The words uttered silently in my head when I meet an animal, a plant, a stone  or a person. In silence the words came to me and after more than a week of running, yoga, physical work and talking they surfaced with ease. 11 years ago I met a Buddhist monk in the Indira Gandhi International airport and his smile really made me curious. How could he be smiling with this natural smile all the way into the centre of Delhi, surrounded as we were with poverty and suffering ? Now I realise how you can choose happiness as an attitude towards life. All the time we have thoughts in our head and some of them cause suffering and some of them causes a good mood. If we truly love a person we really want them all the best and with no expectation we give them freedom. As soon as we expect something in return we are caught in suffering. I can say to you that suffering is avoidable but if you do not have that experience it is just words for you. Of course there is suffering in life and we are forced to make decisions. The only thing we can be sure about in life is change. Our body is getting older, friends disappear to foreign countries, love turns into hate, summer turns into winter. Some times in meditation and life we reach a feeling of emptiness and this can be both a terrifying feeling and a liberating state. From emptiness something new can be born and you can always chose to be the light from which love and compassion is flowing.