Paranormal Activity - In Rush Hour Traffic!

Frown, Surprise, Laughter, Emotion - Go Beyond All These... in Traffic!
Just How? Read on :)

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with the things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed - Zen Master Chuang Tsu.

Mind is the cause of all misery, I read my Guru saying. So, what to do, to transcend misery? "Transcend the Mind"... Pat came the answer from some inside me. "Oh! Man, you are sooooooo intelligent. But, prey, say how do I do that?" I asked, with a pinch of sarcasm. And then I understood why the great Guru Jesus said "Ask and ye shall receive...".

To transcend the mind, you need to anchor yourself in the present moment and start understanding the Mind. So, I set off to understand the mind... to get over the continuous discontent that is a common states in this rush age. 

While driving to office and back in the city's maddening traffic, I tried to root myself in the moment and observe the Mind... in order to understand it. 

1. Somebody cut past my bike, into my line of travel. REVENGE! 'Now you show him how it feels if somebody does that to him!' said the mind. And I said " Mind is Revengeful" and came back to the present, leaving that thought there. 

2. While waiting on the red signal, the Mind took me off on a trip. I observed to see where exactly. It was planning to write this blog and how to go about presenting this notion creatively.
And I said "Mind the Preacher!" and left it there to return to the present moment.  

3. I was on Khairatabad flyover. Traffic was stalled in a queue. I was between 2 big cars. Mine being a Bullet, a big bike, the gap between the cars was too narrow to pass. There was a biker who was honking behind me signalling me to move ahead, which I could not. I felt guilty for standing in a place causing the other person not to move ahead. I was desperately wanting the traffic to move ahead, so as to move me away from this situation. Then came back the awareness...
And I said "Mind feels guilty. Always a slave to 'what other people think' ". 

4. There is a lady on a bike ahead of me. I see her rapped up in her "Chunni", like some air-cargo packaging, riding a two wheeler. But her wavy brown hair emanates a fragrance while I zoom past her. Suddenly I remember my school days and a cute girl I flirted with, who had the same perfume about her. What a feeling I had in those days! We had it going for a while but we broke up amicably. Probably she would pretend nothing happened between us, if I happen to meet her one of these days. Perhaps she is married and all. May be she does not care to give any weight-age to me now, I am no playboy, right?... But how about this female on FB who is giving me signals, I wonder if she had the same perfume about her in person, never met her, really. And there! I caught you, I say to the Mind. Then, with ease I come back to driving my Bullet in the present moment.
And I say "Mind is always in the Past and keeps linking it to the Future... oscillating between Past and Future". 

5. I stop to hop into a tobacco outlet for a quick shopping. An old beggar woman accosts me, requesting money. While I give her a currency note, I look at her and think, this woman might have looked beautiful in her younger days.

Later, a hundred yards ahead, a young biker zooms past me with maddening speed on some 175CC bike, swirling and zigzagging annoyingly through traffic. I say 'these teenagers... no roots, no reverence and are just a clueless lot... India, today!'. 

I see a man in a car, with long hair. Wow! I think, how I wish I had grown that kind of hair!

I see a lady with an expression like the rogue dog took away her chicken burger. My God! I would felicitate her husband for enduring such an expression everyday!

Hey, why are you blinking the right indicator when you are not turning? Atrocious unconsciousness!

My my, car-man, what's it with you? Why are you so pushy, we others on the road belong to the same human race and we too, want to reach our destinations... we don't intend to park our vehicles here and sleep on the road!

Enough! I stop myself at this point to come back to the present moment...

And say to myself "Mind is continuously Judgemental !"

I keep understanding more and more about the mind. But I don't fight it. I keep acknowledging it and I keep coming back to the present moment. Understanding the Mind made my presence in the present, stronger. This is one sure way to, one day, transcend the Mind and thus, human misery.
Thanks to the maddening traffic, of-course :)

Ask and You Shall Receive... I received the answer.

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