Once in a while you chance upon incidents/places/faces that wake you up from the slumber of ignorance and selfishness. I have had two of such rare incidents; first was my fatal accident which allowed my heart to open to the entire space. It was then that I began loosening my grips of my own perceived reality. It was a kind of a logical transcendence that flashed an inkling of feelings that what you perceive as the reality around is not so much the absolute truth.
Just as when the effects of my first incident began to fade which eventually was threatening me into old grips of mundane woes of life, I chanced upon this rare soul, who flickers a fresh light of dawn on me again. How in the world, would I have even imagined there could be a living personality of what was only being read of? In the complex world of hypocrisy and fabrication, this soul that stood before me beaming with all the virtues only heard of knocked me back to my consciousness that there is hope for everything. “Hope is what keeps evolution moving”, he claimed with full authority. Yes, I agreed with an instant nod of my head. “He is larger than life”, was the description my other friend gave who was just mesmerized by the genuine treatment “the Stranger” bestowed.
Coming across a person who is truly living the concepts of what Buddhism propounds, inspired and encouraged me to live with courage and perseverance in enlightened values and principles you hold dearly. I remember reading somewhere that life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans. I didn’t plan for a blessed weekend, but it surely was one of the best moments of my life. Mesmerizing virgin landscape compounded by the simplicity and genuineness of my companions rekindled my hope of finding endangered authentic species of mankind. For now my life is too precious and every second matters, I can’t afford to get lost in the maze of daily mundane happenings, and I realized that more of my precious life is dictated by hope and fear.
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