Insight versus effort: What drives transformation ?

Conventional wisdom/conditioning  states for any transformation you need to put in mental effort directed at making the change..
This approach only leads to preoccupation of mind as a habbit and no real change happens which breeds more frustration...
What drives change ?
Only genuine insights which are essentially truths about how your mind works can trigger change of mental beliefs which leads to internal transformation!

Building with Strings

Imagine being a bird on the terrace of a building and tied to strings. You want to fly but u cant ! You are tied to different string coming from different floors of the building...there are some from 1st floor, some from 3rd  and some from 5th floor and some from the terrace itself..
what do you feel ?
suffocated ? help less ?
This is the story of our life !
The strings are mental blocks that have accumulated all our life...as we grow old...the ones from smaller floors are the blocks (fears, inferiroty complexes, irrational beliefs) that we got when we were young and higher floors are more recent ones and easier to break away..
whats the solution ?
Go floor by floor to look at the strings and break them untill you reach the ground floor and find very old and deep subconcious beliefs that have made you do things u never wanted to !
As each string breaks you feel relieved and bliss ful and ligter...come back on terrace and you will feel more free with lesser strings and when all strings break you will be a free bird !
Go find your strings and break them NOW !

Quotes

1. Live free or die

2. Life is here and now

3. Luxury is a distraction from inner empitness- be aware before indulging

4. Tasks make you machine

man in the merc

ever seen a man in a merc in a traffic light ? what do you see ? Most often old, grumpy, pre occupied and not in the moment. The length of the car speaks a story of series of actions that the person would not have done if left to his natural free will. compare that to labourer on a cycle taking daughter to school...wat you see ?

Futility of Goals

It is counter intuitive but goals are unnatural way of life and creates mental conflicts by creating boundaries.
Why ?
A goal comes with a plan and plan means that you will perform actions based on a specific plan like a computer and give it higher importance than what you want to do at that moment. So suppression of natural will is the net result ! which makes you a constrained person and hence un natural and fake and robs you off the natural joy of living the moment. When you achieve a goal you set another - and this suppression continues till you lose your self.

Mirage

Technically a mirage is something that is an illusion but appears real. Interestingly similar to human thought process. Group of thoughts make you angry ...make a situation look terrible some times and some times like heaven. how does one realize the reality of this mirage ?

Dimensions of observation

What can be observed ?
Things that you want to change.

What are they ?
-Thoughts (esp long story like thoughts that get bigger and complex)
-Breathing (you breathe hard and shallow in difficult uncomfy situations, over time breathing becomes shallow - so shallow that you are always uncomfortable)
- Habbits (like a computer you do same thing again and again which is killing you little day by day)

What happens when you observe them ?
The act of observing make u aware about them in the sub conscious which triggers an 'auto action' (almost like a reflex action) which acts like cleaner removing unnatural behavioral patterns that have piled on you and makes you free. You feel like you are getting closer to home. More comfortable, lighter and not restless.