Wisdom
Being the source of all joy, we have forgetfully wandered outside, identifying happiness with different objects. In life, suffering (from any object/person) comes to indicate that happiness is not present there. It is our wrong vision which gives reality to suffering. To realize and recognize this is possible only through grace.
I had a strange night. First I fell asleep while my laptop and the light in the room were still on. I switched it off later but couldn’t sleep anymore. A dog was barking very near the house and didn’t stop. After a while I left my room and went down the staircase. I got a broom with me to get the dog out of here. He was escaping anyway. I went back into my bed, watched some YouTube movies before I continued sleeping.
I went directly to Satsang this morning. Just parking my scooter, a guy asked me if he could borrow my scooter, he lost his key. So I gave him my scooter. While I was still sitting outside the Satsang Hall, he came back with my scooter and gave me the key.
After Amma entered the room and sat down, a lady told her story about another teacher and his sangha, and what went wrong there. It was a strange story and she was quite long. It felt somehow uncomfortable to listen to her, I think this topic was more for a therapy session and not for Satsang.
Sarah was there and we already planned last Sunday to have some breakfast at Nandhini’s. So we left with my scooter. It’s nice to sit in the garden at Nandhini’s. Sourdough bread is my favourite there. Also, Sarah felt strange with this sharing during Satsang. She said that this woman needs a lot of attention and wants to be heard. We spent quite a while there, talking and having our coffee. Today and tomorrow it is supposed to rain, it already feels like it, cloudy and a bit windy. When we left, I said it rains maybe in two hours, but it started after two minutes, and it rained heavily. We were all wet already when we stopped the scooter and found shelter in a little temple. I was already soaked. There were some other Indians waiting for the rain to stop. After 10 minutes, it was less rain and we continued driving back to Perumpakkam Road. I dropped Sarah at her house and drove back to my apartment.
I had my afternoon nap, and when I woke up there was no electricity. It’s getting fast warmer without the running fan. I saw a message in the HelpNet.Tiru WhatsApp group. Somebody was asking if anyone had a USB-C-Ethernet connector. I have one, so I offered him. We wanted to meet at the chai shop. Just 200 meters before the chai shop, it started heavily raining again. I was soaked before I could stop my scooter. For a minute I was a bit protected by a big tree. Then the rain was even heavier and I crossed the road to find shelter under a roof of a building. There was Holger already. I contacted the American guy and we met in Postoffice Road after the rain stopped. He was happy to get the connector. He is using an Apple laptop and discovered a process in his system, which is doing crypto mining, which is slowing down his computer. Now he can make a system recovery via ethernet.
Unfortunately, I had to drive back instead of having chai and going to the Ashram. I had to change my clothes again. I don’t want to get sick these days. I changed my clothes again, I hope they will all dry tomorrow, there will be still more rain. This time I got my plastic raincoat from last year, and on the way I stopped and pulled it over, it started slowly raining again. Then I reached German Cafe and had a vegetable curry with rice. There were just a very few people, it’s getting more and more empty in town.
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