"Even a simple phenomenon when viewed with
heightened awareness, can unfold new avenues of learning". Every moment,
every encounter, every activity and every experience have within it an unspoken
message. There is something even in nothing, and there is everything in
something.
1) Freedom & Discipline – The
entire significance of kite’s freedom comes from it being disciplined by the
thumb and a finger that is holding the string at the other end. If the hand
holding the string let go of it, the kite will fall into directionless death.
Freedom has no meaning without discipline. Freedom without discipline is
licentiousness.
2) Detached attachment- Flying a kite
is all about fun and excitement. It demands complete emotional participation.
Even when an adult flies a kite, the child in him or her comes to the surface.
His or her gestures are always exaggerated. Yet, when the kite gets snapped off
the thread, nothing can be done. You become a mute spectator. Genius is in
knowing when to let go. Nothing teaches this lesson better than kite flying.
So, stay attached while flying the kite, but accept it’s snapping away with
detachment. Detach yourself from the result, but intensity attaches you to the
process. Knowing very well that death will detach you from a relationship you
cherish, stay attached to it when the person is still around. Practice detached
attachment.
3) Risk against all odds- The kite
does not rise with the wind, but against the wind. Sometimes to the left,
sometimes to the right; sometimes upwards and sometimes it has to fall to rise…
but finally it finds itself up in the skies. Life is never going to be free
from obstacles and challenges. Yet, when you live up to your potential, you
rise against all odds. Compared to the 100 meters dash, a 110 meter hurdle race
will just a take little more time and effort; nevertheless, we will go past the
finishing line. Go past the finishing line, against all odds.
Be blissful.
S.SEKAR
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