As usual I was in the park adjacent to a lake which is very much dry and you can see kids playing cricket. There is a walkway around the dry lake. There are trees occasionally along the path.
I went one full round which is little more than a kilometer as I am told. Then I saw some one crossing me. He was a middle aged man wearing white shorts and a T shirt with dull orange color stripes. After a while of walking, I realized I was just behind him. Our pace were somewhat the same. So I was just behind him. At some point I saw that I was hearing the sound of our walking. The shoe noise. I normally take up a topic and think it over while walking and this noise was interfering. So I tried to speed up a bit and cross him. While I equaled him, I saw he was also increasing his pace to stay ahead of me. Then I increased mine and he did and we were kind of in competition. I was mildly frustrated that both are reacting to each other when I wanted to just walk freely in my pace. So I suddenly ran past him for a distance and then started my normal walk. I felt free. I was back to my pace and my world of thoughts. Then I saw this man crossing me jogging now and continue to jog. I was thinking what sort of people we have around. I was convinced now that he wanted to show he can walk faster or he was reacting to my pace. In any case he disappeared from my eyes soon and I was left with myself.
There is a certain magical force when one person comes in the orbit of another. This is something like the way planets are positioned and follow a orbit and are influenced by other. If you are alone you are fine and left to whatever you are. The moment I add another variable in the system such as a person in the room or space you are in you no longer are the same as what you were when the person was not there. Your thoughts are invariably about the other person as what he thinks about you and your actions are very mindful now. This is mysterious to me. In some way this shows we get connected through some stream of consciousness and are influenced by one another. People tend to avoid this eerie silence by either staring at something else or reading a newspaper or some times strike a conversation. The latter actually eases the friction to some extent. You feel comfortable that there is nothing unusual in the head of the other person about you.
Being withdrawn inwardly and not getting associated with your mind and its tentacles extending into others minds nearby helps to first observe this in you and further choose to focus on what you want devoid of external situations. Do this. Do this. Do this.
I went one full round which is little more than a kilometer as I am told. Then I saw some one crossing me. He was a middle aged man wearing white shorts and a T shirt with dull orange color stripes. After a while of walking, I realized I was just behind him. Our pace were somewhat the same. So I was just behind him. At some point I saw that I was hearing the sound of our walking. The shoe noise. I normally take up a topic and think it over while walking and this noise was interfering. So I tried to speed up a bit and cross him. While I equaled him, I saw he was also increasing his pace to stay ahead of me. Then I increased mine and he did and we were kind of in competition. I was mildly frustrated that both are reacting to each other when I wanted to just walk freely in my pace. So I suddenly ran past him for a distance and then started my normal walk. I felt free. I was back to my pace and my world of thoughts. Then I saw this man crossing me jogging now and continue to jog. I was thinking what sort of people we have around. I was convinced now that he wanted to show he can walk faster or he was reacting to my pace. In any case he disappeared from my eyes soon and I was left with myself.
There is a certain magical force when one person comes in the orbit of another. This is something like the way planets are positioned and follow a orbit and are influenced by other. If you are alone you are fine and left to whatever you are. The moment I add another variable in the system such as a person in the room or space you are in you no longer are the same as what you were when the person was not there. Your thoughts are invariably about the other person as what he thinks about you and your actions are very mindful now. This is mysterious to me. In some way this shows we get connected through some stream of consciousness and are influenced by one another. People tend to avoid this eerie silence by either staring at something else or reading a newspaper or some times strike a conversation. The latter actually eases the friction to some extent. You feel comfortable that there is nothing unusual in the head of the other person about you.
Being withdrawn inwardly and not getting associated with your mind and its tentacles extending into others minds nearby helps to first observe this in you and further choose to focus on what you want devoid of external situations. Do this. Do this. Do this.
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