Modern day life sucks. From the perspective of an urban youth, who finds himself stuck in endless traffic, on the road and on the internet, let me tell you that with out a steam release this engine that I call mind and body will soon splutter out and die. My relationships suffer the most, cause I am eternally moody and people hate the eternally moody and hence avoid me. I feed my negativity into a cycle of human suckiness that gets passed on from one to another and back to the one.
Religion is a great steam release. Prayer, meditation, talking to god, yoga, worship, chanting, singing etc etc... By focussing on a relationship with an abstract and surrendering your mind and will to an external being, the divine, you end up releasing steam as your mind believes that some thing other than itself deals with the traffic.
But what about a mind that has figured this out? What about me? I have wandered the religious landscapes and experienced many but have not fixated on one abstract. Perhaps I can fixate on everything at once. But a seasoned spiritual person will know the difficulty, the doubts that that throws up.
Should I just move on to another steam release, another opium to satiate the traffic ridden mind. Can someone suggest something? Something other than the literal opiate.
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