9. Do Not Be Distracted.

Adi Annamalai.

Even in the very midst of the myriad demands of day to day life it is possible to find moments of peace.

We live in times that are  saturated by the media, instant communications and electromagnetic 'noise'.  Often we can feel that we are hurled along in a kind of vacuum over which it seems we have
very little control.  This gives us the sense of constant and almost endless 'busyness'.  A feeling that life is rushing by and we are merely trying to stay abreast of events.

Even in sleep we are often visited by the procession of images that bombard us during our waking hours.

Therefore it is very vital to know how to find moments in the midst of all of this, to just 'be'.  Moments that can enable us to re establish a point of balance.

Distraction is the state of our day to day lives.  The demands of our work, our families our friends our various and many commitments all drive us to be continually engaged in outer activities that drive us away from the natural state of harmony that is our own true nature.

To find the inner point of balance does not require any special conditions it is just a simple turning of the mind in towards itself.  Knowing oneself as the 'witness' of all that is going on gives us a sense of freedom and reconnects us to our innate inner stillness.

'Do not be distracted', can become a mantra during our busy day to day activities, a hub of silence in the great wheel of life, which, although everything is spinning around it, yet it remains at the center, unmoved, unaffected...