All roads lead Home.
- Magical Mindful Living
- Mar 1
- 3 min read
500 miles.
If you miss the train I'm on..
You would know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow, a
Hundred miles...
This is a song first I heard in the film by the name Inside Llewin Davis. I cannot be sure of the plot exactly. You are welcome to comment if you remember, as I am too lazy to check it out and write here, not because I cannot but because I have plenty of interesting things to write about. Let's focus on the core message instead. How about mindfulness and philosophy for a change?
All the roads lead home.
I have spent significant amount of time travelling. Not on world tours, taking same road again and again to the school, University and now to work. And I do not think it will change. We cannot avoid travelling as it is essential for our survival. In Fact if you stop you might even get sick fat and die. And in these significantly boring travelling I have thought about many things. And obviously one is about roads. Have you ever imagined all the roads are connected? Maybe it was not the case 100 years ago. But it's true the moment you step out to the street you are connected to this vast network of transportation called roads. In Fact this is a good analogy to understand life. Imagine you travel 500 miles away from home from your folks. But do not worry do not fear or feel isolated, as when you step on the road you know it leads to your home. That there is the connection to the place where you want to be if you prefer that. Isn't that dreamy?
Interconnectedness in Generic roads.
There are many ways to look at this phenomenon. Although the above is true when we look at roads as specific, we often forget it is the case. As we have separated roads as highways and country ways, bridges underground. And naming every street. It has made it easier for us to locate exactly where our house is. But if we limit our vision to this narrow space we will miss the big picture. I am sure there are engineers who look at our road systems in a more generic view of this network. And if you went to visit the chief engineer of transportation In your estate he would have a map on his wall with this generic form. And everything is connected to everything ! Just like the interconnectedness of mindfulness which Thich Nhat Hanna talks about.
Interconnectedness is not the only wisdom we can gain from these roads. In Fact there is no limit. As you can see everything is connected to everything. I could talk about materials used to build roads. Or the machines. Biggest and most difficult roads. But that is not our focus in Magical Mindful living. We will look at the mindfulness example.
Returning home.
Imagine you are far away from home. This time the home represents something that you seek. It may be eternal happiness or connecting with God. It may mean self discovery of yourself. But you have travelled far into the wild of the concrete jungle and you haven't found the answer. Now you are feeling lost and stranded without anyone for you to show you the way home. But guess what. Every road is connected to home. As long as you are willing to accept, you are stranded and willing to turn back. Like a true seeker, navigate back to the place where it all started, travel back even up to the mothers womb. There is risk going backwards. But if you understand the analogy you know there is still hope as no road is isolated. Even roads which lead apparently to nowhere, you can turn back and return. Learning the lesson. Just like a funa reaching for sunlight, you can slowly progress to the eternal peace that you seek.
Obviously I am being a little dramatic here and making another illusion out of nothingness. But most of you would not understand as likely you haven't observed what your mind does day after day.
In summary I can say that if you look at the world in mindfulness you would see the connections and links that everything and everyone has, with the self. And you might even capture this idea in a universal function like I just did the other day !
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