SEASONS (#14)

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(Audio Version here: A Lesson From Seasons)

Seasons Change....

Time flies....

My New semester has started. It is called the SPRING semester in the US. 

It is the season of New Beginnings. Plants begin to grow; Flowers start to bloom; Birds return from their winter migration; and Animals wake up from Hibernation.

New life. New Beginnings.

Yet, every SPRING has to inevitably END. 

 "SPRING-SUMMER-FALL-WINTER".

That's the cycle.

That's Nature.

But we don't see the trees or animals suffering during the FALL and happy during the SPRING. They don't have concepts like "5 steps to happiness" and "3 steps to Peace". They don't have God/religious gurus/self-help books/psychologists/psychiatrists/movies/web series/stories/substances.

Why?

Is it because they understand NATURE?

Is it because they don't resist NATURE?

Is it because they align THEIR NATURE to THE NATURE?

Is it because they live in the MOMENT?

Human beings are weird. 

He can solve some of the toughest problems of NATURE in the external world.

He can choose to stay WARM in WINTER and COLD in SUMMER. He can choose to be anywhere at any time.

Yet, when it comes to HIS OWN NATURE (his internal world), he is a mess.

He chooses sides in everything-Region/Religion/Race/Caste/Gender/People.

He likes this and dislikes that.

He chases Happiness and resists the Opposite.

Yet, despite the efforts to maximize "HAPPINESS", he lives most of his life in MISERY. And when he finds a drop of Happiness in the ocean of misery, he craves even more.

He chases these little drops and forgets that he was caught in the CHASE GAME. 

In a sense, He suffers both Happiness and Misery.

Why?

Why is He different from the other fellow life forms?

Perhaps, He has been told lies all his Life- to love one thing and hate the other, to chase one thing and resist the other, to control one thing and focus on the other.

Perhaps, if He UNDERSTANDS this and ACCEPTS his Spring and Fall, his Good and Bad, his Happiness and Suffering, his Yin and Yan, his Success and Failure unconditionally, as they are, he may find a way.

Perhaps, if He goes beyond these imposed concepts and looks at Life as a whole, He may find peace within himself.

Perhaps, if He finds peace within himself, He may find peace even on the outside.

Perhaps, living life as a WITNESS to the GAME may work for him.

Perhaps, there is a lot to learn from NATURE.

Perhaps, there is something to learn from SEASONS.

Perhaps....