Life is about giving Joy a taking pain - 2

Physical pain or physical discomfort is inevitable in Human life.Or rather let me put it in this way physical pain is a integral way of life. Since a baby's birth to the death bed humans get some physical pain in some way or other.

Imagine you are a little baby in your mom's womb trying to push your way out to a big new world from a limited space of your mother's womb. Although mother's womb could be the coziest place in the universe;  you will have to give your everything to push yourself out to a bright airy world where the possibilities are infinite and freedom is unlimited. You always seek freedom in any level possible unless you yourself constrict your freedom in your brain or by some believe you would want to break all barriers to get freedom in anyway possible. And Freedom is almost always never Free ;

you will have to strive for it , work for it , break some paradigms ,  break some mental inhibition  and finally break some of your own ingrained beliefs to really be gaining that. And the path the freedom has almost always have a thorny path but its a very critical things to remember physical discomfort is not something that is in your body rather its always in your mind. A good majority of people can not even walk for a mile without exhausting themselves and there are huge number of people who can run ultra marathons and even run for 100 mile without feeling much of exhaustion. And more over the same person who can not run for a mile one day can run 5k the next day. We all have all that it takes in us but we do not fully conquered the command panel yet.

Its like we have been given a high power automobile or a Ferrari but we do not know how to to change gears and always drive in the first gear and then complain that the car is not fast. May be its not as simple as that our physical being are much more complex ; think of you actually have a car which have a top speed unknown but the owners manual tells you that the more faster you can drive everyday the car will achieve a higher top speed but if you do not use the car then which ever top speed you had achieved will reduce slowly. You will have to drive your body and mind as close to its limit to increase your potential or you can always not use your car to its limits and eventually lose the top speed you had achieved earlier. Moreover you body is not just a car and its will always try , act out , coax with you mind to keep you from driving it closer to its limits. It has many ammunition in its disposal like physical pain , mental pain , emotional pain , bad weather , bad feeling , not enough energy , not enough time and not enough resources .

But be assured there is no real  pain or bad things in the universe its always the interpretation that makes it bad or good. So before you can control your body you will have to conquer your mind.

Life is about Giving Joy and Taking Pain : TOC

Introduction :
Chapter 1 : What is the true meaning of human life
Chapter 2 : Success & Happiness
Chapter 3 : Perceived pain vs Actual pain
Chapter 4 : Perceived Pleasure vs actual Pleasure
Chapter 5 : Goal and the importance of it
Chapter 6 : Goal & Happiness and interconnected
Chapter 7 : Conditioning of body ,  mind and spirit for a perusal of a worthy goal
Chapter 8 : Practice & Perfection
Chapter 9 : Training and Guarding mind
Chapter 10 : Getting the best of the Now
Chapter 11 : Past is nothing but a experience
Chapter 12 : Future is what we do now
Chapter 13 : We are collectors of experience
Chapter 14 :  Give joy to get it back
Chapter 15 :  Living Life king size doing the hard things
Chapter 16 : Compassion
Chapter 17 : Giving to get the ultimate joy

Life is about giving Joy a taking pain

Recently I have been contemplating what is the true meaning of life what happens and what we make happen .What we are supposed to do in this planet where we are limited vertically by physics and in a lot other ways mentally or psychologically. I believe I found the answer to this so profound questions. But before we go there as this is a question that will poke the hornets nest surely , lets think about few very basic things. What in life is most valuable. Some might say my iphone or internet or some may say its the big home they own or a luxury car. But have anyone thought about the water they drink can someone truly live any meaningful life with a clean glass of water for more than a day. Or have anyone thought about a clean gush of fresh air they breath ; can anyone really still survive even couple of minutes without it. Probably no.May be lets think about time we only have 86k seconds a day and that is it. They are not going to get back any single second lost for any reason what so ever. Or may be a good physical health and good mental health. Without a good physical health every other material thing in the world would fade in its glory or more even a good mental health without which you will not experience anything meaningfully even if you have everything at your disposal. Have anyone thought what the the price of all these valuable things. They are priceless.
So the bottom line is in life most of the things that are priceless are free and can never have any price to it. But because they are free  we never really understand the value of it.This is a quite ironic , is not it. And we will see lot more ironic things next.

Similarly like any living organism humans try to lean towards pleasure and away from pain. There is nothing wrong in it. In fact it a very basic primordial quality which is even exhibited at any level of living hierarchy like a amoeba or a ant or even a fish. For example if you have a amoeba  in a petri dish and pass electric current or heat at one end of it the amoeba will move away from it and if you put some food source it will move towards it.However most organism move away from pain towards pleasure driven by their survival instinct.  So whats wrong it it. Humans are different however. Human have a much better memory and much better brain. We normally define pleasure not for anything related to our survival. We have conquered everything related to survival and our pleasures and pains are no longer driven our natural tendency to survive rather the pleasure is normally driven by indulgence or a non fruitful habits. For example if you ask 100 people what pleases them 90% will certainly say partying or drinking or even eating a great tasting food.  And if you ask 100 people what is pain probably most of them will say going to work  , doing chores or working out at gym  ,  run a mile or doing a creative project or any repeating thing. So what is the outcome of this type of mentality it create a bunch of over indulgent people who do not want to do much but want to have everything the world has to offer. Also not getting what they really desire like happiness and even end up losing the health. This create a burden on the society and more over burden on the planet and more over burden on them selves as pleasure is hard to achieve without a healthy mind and body.

Our true nature what we should be driven towards we really want is to experience everything but indulge in nothing material rather only indulge in something to improve internally like a skill or a mastery any specific craft of their liking or something creative or may be working out or running. We will discuss much more in detail in coming post.

There is a very well know proverb "we make the habits first then the habits make us". However only a very small fraction of people few intentionally make any habits.As habits making need discipline  and an internal drive without which when the going gets tough which will inevitably happen we will stop or even move backwards. Have you seen anyone getting younger after passing of the days. Nope. Right? We always grow older no matter if we do anything or nothing. But in the habit making process we do go backward if we do not contribute towards to goal. So we have to be very careful. Especially when the going gets tough and our motivation and desire subsides.

Peace..Calm... Be happy with what you have rather than thinking you would be happy with what you want..