Awareness

I remember as a kid, I was crying for some doll. Now, when I become an adult, if I look back at that situation, I laugh. What is the difference between that day and today? The difference is awareness. As a kid, awareness is very low, but as an adult, it is much improved. Now we have a lot of problems, and we try to resolve them with our state of awareness, but very rarely we arrive at a real solution. We may arrive at some compromise and this and that, but a real solution where all parties are happy is very rare. The solution lies in improving our awareness. Just like a problem when I was a kid is not a problem when I am an adult, the problems I am facing now as an adult will not be a problem if my awareness has improved. The solution is to use the situations we are in, take the help from someone who has got more awareness if possible, or try to take some break from the routine and sit in silence, or whatever the solution works for you to increase your awareness.

Awareness transforms problems—not by solving them directly, but by shifting how we view them. As our awareness grows, we see challenges in a new light, which can make them seem less daunting and sometimes even dissolve them altogether.

Just as an elephant gently shifts its position this way and that so its calf can find the right spot to nurse, the universe arranges various situations—sometimes challenging, sometimes easy—so that our minds finally understand: improving awareness brings effortless solutions, rather than exhausting itself within the current level of awareness. Life’s situations are not meant for us to display our intelligence for self-preservation, but to use them as opportunities to increase our awareness.