Moazzam Shaikh's Blog, page 61

Sign board

I, you, and all the human beings of this universe have them called by some signs. Some say them as a doctor, some say psychologist, some say intelligent, some say scientist, some say politician, the list goes on. We all liked to be called by some prestigious and renowned sign by which we could get honor and popularity in this world.

We work hard for it and we set targets to be the one but we somehow forget our real self. We all do not know about our real self because we never tried to look ins...

Mysticism: a tendency towards complete harmony

Mysticism is different from other sciences and knowledge. The basic difference between mysticism and other sciences is that in other science we obtain knowledge first and then practice it but in mysticism, we’ll have to practice first and with the passage of time, we start obtaining knowledge of mysticism.

Mysticism is variously defined in different traditions. It is variously referred to extraordinary experiences and states of mind. Every state of mind has a background for which it is an impl...

Your power is in your speech

Speech has its importance. In fact, only speech is important. There are words in which all the power of good and evil hidden. Your words can be used as life-saving ammunition as well as Kalashnikov bullets to kill someone. It is not that your words like Kalashnikov bullets can hurt others only, they do hurt you at the same time. Your speech requires great care.

Similarly, your laughter has meanings hidden in them. Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of ill manners. It is highly li...

Sacrifice

A person or a thing who sacrifices himself or itself, can enlighten someone’s life. A person can sacrifice himself not only by giving off something, but can also sacrifice himself by controlling his thoughts and actions in times of trial.

It is similar to things as well. When the wood burns, it allows us to cook food or it gives warmth in winter. When the trees bear the weight of fruits upon themselves then we get the fruits to eat. When a man gives his blood to a dying man, he does this for t...

Keep your dreams alive

Sometimes it is so difficult to keep your dreams alive. You think that you are passing the right path and your inner self tells you that you are not. It is just opposite of that someone who truly loves you gets angry at you for whatever reasons but never leaves you. But in this case, you feel like losing all the time except keeping up the right thing.

What you are is God’s gift to you and you try harder to give Him back a gift by becoming what He wants. You chose paths which could lead you to...

Shift of vision

When we hold things in such a way that we suddenly find our body, the mind and the world, all arriving to a resolution, that is called a realization of orderly perfection. We feel that the world is balanced within our heart which is filled with vibrant silence and this eventually bring about a shift of vision.

When we focus on the inner sound and then simply reflect, we recollect that the world is in our mind. It all gives a feeling of here such as the whole world is just right here and we can...

Impermanence

Impermanence is a universal quality of all experiences that arise and pass away, and recognizing its presence is the most active aspect in itself.

Recognizing impermanence allows us to free the heart from all limitations, burden and stress. In the process of it, we need to say “NO” to the world.

In today’s world, it is almost impossible for a common man to feel emptiness, to feel free from all worries. It is better if we could find time and try to develop this skill of feeling free of mind.

The pulse of time

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Businesses around the world could be saved from imitation and competition only by keeping their secrets. This is what most of the business entities think and they strategize their business models in their favor in such a way that no one can pass the border line.

They know that they cannot keep every secret for very long. Eventually, the unmea...

The more you perform, the more opportunity you’ll get

We want to know what we see and we want to know more after getting a particular knowledge. Gaining knowledge is important to us and it is same as if we go to a garden full of flowers and we begin smelling the fragrance of a flower. After smelling every flower, we move to the next, no matter if it is similar to the first one but we try to smell that one too.

This act does not completely come from our mind. In fact, most of this act resides in our muscles and it travels all the way with us. Wher...

Somebody once asked me

Somebody once asked me about solving the puzzle of relationship between man and man. As we all are aware of the fact that being human beings we all are imperfect and we will remain the same till the end of all times. Then why we question about perfection, why we want to see it and why we want to be it?

To me, it is a state of awareness for a single moment which vanishes with a blink of an eye and then we struggle to experience it again and for longer period. We are crowded with plenty of peopl...