Have a nice weekend.

This morning at my yoga session, my teacher told us that Yoga is not only a one person/s exercise and there are stretching exercise which can be done by  two people. There was quite a number of participants and   I  partner my daughter, May and we had a good workout.  After the session, we greet each other " have a nice weekend".  This greeting sound so familiar  and have  been greeted so many times before.

The weekends are meant to rest ourselves and for us to recuperate and rejuvenate. Quite often then not, it turns out to be more stressful. We  have so many errands to run and so little time to rest.  When it is Saturday, we have Sunday to rest  and when it turns to Sunday, our mind will be on Monday , a start of a fresh week. On Friday, we call out , Thank God is Friday and on Sunday, we flaunt , OMG or Oh, My God, tomorrow is Monday. It is very funny, we try to catch the weekends , hoping that it will slow down. But , how much time we have , it is still not enough. In our heart, we question why Time  move so fast but we do not know that it is us that is moving fast. Time is constant and it is we, who is moving. We never slow down to see what is happening to us or around us and how beautiful is our breath and our surrounding. We never notice or aware how important are the things besides us.

I read heard a dharma by Ajshn Brahm  and in his session, he mentioned that he has been travelling to his monastery on top of  a hill every day for the past few years and once, he asked his driver to let him walk up the hill by himself. During the walk, he notice the leaves on the tress and the rocks by the road side and he could realized the beauty he has missed for the past years. He could see the details of  nature and the miracle of  the Universe in the leaves , rocks and trees.  If we slow down, time slow down with us and we see more clearly and deeply.  We can feel the peace in us and also our surroundings.

We do not know how to slow down because our basic character is to move from things to things or fixing one problem to the next and we believe the faster we do it , the more things can be done and the people around us will appreciate us and thinks that we are capable. Speed is another criteria to assess our ability. We eat fast, we drive fast , we walk fast and always targeting our next destination. Our focus is how to reach our destination at the shortest time and other details are not important to us. That is the problem with us, we can only manage a few destinations a day but we missed a million details. So, in our mind, time pass so fast because we can only do a few things a day.  This is the problem with our mind if we are in a hurry. If we slow down, we can see the million of details in the process and we realized that we have done a lot of things and time is slow. This is an illusion of our mind.

We have to learn the technique of slowing down and enjoy all the minute details as we move on with time. If we  eat, we should chew well and enjoy the breaking up of the food in our mouth and if we drive, we should enjoy the beauty of the places we pass instead of concentrating on the traffic and the jams  which will push up our blood pressure. Slow down our breathing and our actions will slow down. Be focus and aware of our breath and enjoy each minute details that is happening around us.  Meditation is another way to slow down our breath and calm our mind.

Try it out and walk slowly, slow down your breath and relax your whole body and simulate yourself into the environment and the space. You will have a happy and wonderful weekend.

Namaste.