The race of life we live is a race to seek happiness and wellbeing in our home or work life, but the race never seems to end, happiness become a fleeting experience. Often our race for happiness is sought for by racing irrationally, erratically and aggressively. There was never a moment we felt like we need to pause between breaths, to calm down, to become attentive to rigours of life drawn by circumstances around us. Even our prayers time and pilgrimage meant to be a moment of breaking away to a freedom of rest and leisure becomes a race.
We say, ‘in the interest of time’ we shall move faster, compromising the very idea of seeking freedom and space to heal and be happy. We remain driven by our grosser feelings of dissatisfaction, of restlessness and agitation into a momentum that is akin to feather in the windstorm of emotional catastrophe.
Even conversations we have with our spouses and work mates are catastrophic. We talk about other people, other events and others ideas, we rarely talk about ourselves, about what we do and how we should do. Our ways of rejoicing inner fulfillment is sought from a distorted opinion and ways we live.
Neither the teaching we received from Lama nor the trainings we sat through have changed our inner life. Few have, few who at the prime age begins their spiritual journey, but many are on the race.
Race is the only normal ways we live. And race alienate us from ourselves, from social connections and from beauty of the world around us. The race is necessary, but this race must have pauses. Search Inside Yourself is a race that helps us to pause, finding space of calm and care we can give to ourselves. It is not merely a meditation session, but a session that draws from neuroscience and Buddhist values to bring emotional intelligence competencies to train our ways of living a fulfilling life.
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