Saturday was spent all day at home – yet again.
This has become a pattern where I stay home all day
on one day of the weekend and go out on the other.
N made the perfect crepes on Sunday morning.
Few hours after breakfast, I went out to get some life admin done.
N wanted to join and we ended up going to White Noise Coffee.
They have most reliable wifi. It was productive, except
I deferred doing my taxes to another weekend.
We walked through the Dekalb shops and came across a
pleasant surprise – McNally Jackson bookstore opened!
I refrained from buying any books or stationery.
The bookstore is a lot more expansive than it look from the outside.
There is a reading nook with a large table upstairs.
I made myself comfortable and finished “A New Earth”
I have been reading for past few weeks.
It was ten years ago when I read Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now”.
During that time I was going through some typical twenties crises
and this book helped me to manage my thoughts and emotions,
to separate the situation and my thoughts. It was so powerful I
purchased copies to give out to my friends.
Fast forward ten years, having experienced much more of life’s lessens,
this book enlightened me to a whole new perspective of how to, in essence,
live day-by-day and navigate this life with my consciousness and
with humans that I will interact with in various situations.
I loved it. I don’t think I’ve highlighted so furiously on my kindle before.
Life becomes stressful and anxious when my mind is dwelling on the past,
or trying to live in the future when that obviously cannot happen.
Being frustrated, offended or feeling any negative emotions towards a person
no longer needs to linger internally. All I have to do is identify the ego that is talking,
observe why it’s reacting in such manner (most likely because it’s in reaction to the
other person’s ego) and to just be aware and conscious of it and let it go.
If you no longer identify yourself as the ego, that is when you are in complete
consciousness.
Growing up at church I remember the sermons about being humble,
that “the last shall be first and the first last” and how we should follow in Jesus’
steps. It’s one of those things that you know it’s “good” to be humble, but you don’t truly no why. In the Bible it says “Blessed are the humble, for they shall inherit the earth”. In the older version the word was “meek” instead of “humble”.
So who are the meek or humble? It is those who are ego-less.
When you let go of the ego and the form, stop behaving from the conditioned mind, I can instead live a life of peace that’s true to myself.
There is a chapter on life’s purpose and that was transformative for me.
By living in consciousness, i.e., ego-less, it will begin to flow into what you do,
and in the modalities of awakened doing – acceptance, enjoyment, enthusiasm.
That’s it. That’s the purpose of being. It’s a new earth of freedom and peace.
So yes, that was the book I finished over the weekend.
You know what else I finished over the weekend?
A K-drama called “Crash Landing on You” that’s on Netflix.
It’s so cheesy but cute.
It works because of Hyunbin.
