We All Change

 

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We All Change

Change is constant, it is happening all the time, with every passing moment there is change – but because of the human ego we just don’t allow change to happen. We cling, we want things to be static. When we are young, we get used to certain technologies, over time technology changes and if we don’t keep pace, we become outdated and useless. We fall in love with someone in our youth, with the passage of time, the youth becomes old, he/she changes and now we don’t like how he/she looks/behaves – and we fall out of love! That’s how misery arises. Nobody can be certain about the next moment.

A person of awareness knows that life is constantly changing. Life is change. There is only one thing permanent, and that is change. Except change, everything else changes. To accept this nature of life, to accept this changing existence with all its seasons and moods, this constant flow that never stops for a single moment, is to be blissful. Then nobody can disturb our bliss. It is our hankering for permanency that creates troubles for us. If we want to live in a life with no change – we are asking the impossible.

We have all observed even in our corporate life that there always is resistance to change, so much so course have been designed for change management. Resisting change is something that is definitely going to cause grief. This is where meditation helps – meditation balances everything out – our outlook is broadened and we begin to get a bird’s eye view because of our heightened awareness.

Our outlook ‘changes’ and we learn acceptance – and acceptance happens out of understanding, it needs no explanation. Acceptance is like love; it is a happening. When we are truly, authentically with the reality of the moment, we don’t look to the past to find an explanation, we don’t look to the future to find an explanation; we simply look into the fact. If there is pain and misery, we simply live it, knowing full well that this time too shall pass.

Go into the pain of a situation single-handed, alone. Face the situation as it is, with no mind to explain it away. Just look into it without any thought interfering, and then there will be acceptance. It will not be a consolation; there will be great contentment. Suddenly we will see that we can accept, but there is no cause to it.

A person of awareness becomes courageous enough to accept the changing phenomena. In that very acceptance is bliss. Then all is good. Then one is never frustrated.