ManiLife: The Eureka or AHA!!!

The Eureka !!

The Eureka or the AHA!! moment (as Ed Seycota puts it) is one where the confusion dissolves and you reach a stage in self discovery where you get to the root of the matter. You don’t resolve the issue; you just reach a stage in quiet contemplation where you just know the root cause of your misery.

The problem says Seycota resolves itself; it falls from its own accord. Its success was in its hiding and once that is gone, it ceases to exist.

Although I chickened out of that Vipassna course half way, I think I got what I went there for. By observing the vibrations and sensations in my body, I was able to find a deep rooted flaw of my personality. It did not happen immediately; in fact the complete feeling has sunk in just now manifesting itself in form of this blog.

The EUREKA moment for me is the realization that I am a great starter but a bad finisher. I am LAZY and a HUGE procrastinator.

This is so funny, all my close friends would tell me that they knew this all along; you don’t have to meditate and sweat it out so much to figure out something that is so obvious.

However, what we don’t realize is that all great teachings of the world and all great miseries of the world are all based out of simple, straight forward and obvious. It is the obvious that always skip the mind. And you need deep contemplation to figure out the obvious.

Our upbringing has been such that we need to sweat it out to reach to the obvious. Not at a superficial level, but as an existential experience. The core of your being should be made aware of your flaw that has been eating you up.

My flaw in my personality has affected almost every sphere of my life; here is an incomplete list of things I have left unfinished due to this huge folly.