The Pursuit Of Balance

In a world of duality, opposites exist so that you can experience each attribute that exists. In the absence of darkness you cannot experience light. In the absence of smallness you cannot experience bigness.

Experiencing the opposites is like learning to ride a bicycle. You tilt to the left and you tilt to the right before you can come to the center and ride with balance. At times you can even fall down and hurt yourself which is similar to becoming an alcoholic who goes out of balance with over drinking. Sometimes to regain balance, an alcoholic quits drinking completely for a few years only to fall back into the habit of drinking again. This is a pendulum movement of your consciousness for attaining balance at the center of consciousness. When you finally attain balance, and the “pendulum” hovers close to the center, then you automatically feel light. That is enlightenment!

The pursuit of enlightenment does not lead to enlightenment but the pursuit of balance does.

When in balance, apart from the feeling of lightness which results in a spring in your step at every moment, you will also feel gladness and satisfaction. This feeling is very similar to the one you may have felt when you actually first learned to ride a bicycle without any props.

Some tips for attaining balance:

1. Engaging wholeheartedly with life but also withdrawing from activities at least once a day by doing some form of meditation. Getting adequate sleep as well.
2. Engaging in selfless service thereby giving you balance because there is no expectation of material gain or fear of material loss.
3. Engaging in daily exercise to help the body and mind remain in balance.
4. Pursuing passions accompanied with compassion like a mother tending to her child.
5. A balanced diet designed by a nutritionist to help in getting your organs into balance.
6. Knowing that sadness is okay and embracing it when it comes because it must balance happiness.
7. Knowing that pain is okay and embracing it when it comes because it must balance pleasure.
8. Not judging, people, places and circumstances, to help you remain at the center because you are not swaying your consciousness towards “good” or “bad”. Viewing everything just as it is. Black is black and not good or bad! Knowing that it is beneficial to observe what is working for you and what is not, and acting accordingly.
9. Acceptance of things, outside of yourself, as they are, as a powerful tool towards being in balance. If you cannot accept things, then accept the responsibility to change them as a selfless service, to begin with.
10. Not feeling inferior or superior to anyone or anything. You are unique and awesome just as you are!
11. Being natural. Refraining from putting on dramas with people you engage with.

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