Sunday, March 18, 2012

Why we need a companion?

Most of us are afraid to live alone. We feel comfortable with a partner, a spouse or with a family. A lonely person may get mad. We want to get engaged in something so that we could redirect our mind somewhere else. We need complicated problems so that our brains can remain busy.

To live alone and peacefully requires a very sharp intelligence. To find god or truth you need freedom. If your whole energy is engaged in feeding your family and growing your children then you don’t have energy to concentrate on yourself and to find the truth. Aloneness is basic requirement for a serious seeker.

Yes you can meditate while living with your companion or raising your family but still it is very difficult. It is good to have a nice companion, a wife and children most of us get lost in all that mess. Have you ever sit silently at a park or walked alone silently on a road?

Just observe your thoughts chasing each other and you will know the extraordinary beauty of the mind. Most of the time we try to suppress our thoughts and emotions but look what happens when you don't suppress them and when you let them flourish.

Watch clouds and trees, watch birds. Look at the eternity which is surrounded to you this moment and feel the extraordinary richness of being alive then having a companion will become a secondary thing in your life. And most important thing is that you will learn to love yourself and enjoy your company. 

Finding a companion because we can not live alone is actually fear, it is running from yourself. Then you are escaping from yourself. But once you learn to love and to live with yourself then having a companion will be totally different thing. Then you want a companion to share your happiness not for running from yourself. If you enjoy your company then everyone will enjoy your company.

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