So when you are having a headache, remember how many parts you have in the body which are not in any pain.
Just count the blessings, and suddenly you will see that the headache is very minute, that it does not matter really. And once you can feel that it doesn't matter much, it doesn't - and it starts disappearing from your vision. Because you start paying attention to something else it is no more fed by your energy. This is one of the keys of religious life.
Somebody has been a friend to you for many years, and he insults you one day and all the friendship is gone. You never count all the blessings that came through him. Just one remark. . . maybe he made it never meaning it. Maybe he made it in a certain state of irritation, anger.
Maybe he was not aware of what he was saying - and there are dark moments for every being - but you simply forget the whole relationship, the whole love, the friendship, the beautiful moments. Just a small remark!
Maybe it is not even a remark - a look, a gesture, and all simply disappears. And that becomes the most important thing. This is the way to be unreligious.
Always count the blessings - and they are infinite. Become more and more aware of the days and less and less concerned with the nights, and one day you will see that days and nights are not antagonistic to each other - they are complementary; pain and pleasure are part of one whole.
And when you can see that pain is also an intrinsic part of pleasure, then you have no grudge, no complaint And that's what I call prayer.
When a consciousness is there without any grudge, without any complaint, then a gratitude arises.
Then whether you believe in God or not is not of any importance. That very gratitude - that life is good, that you are happy that you are, that you are happy that an opportunity was given to you, that you are happy that the moon is and the stars are, and flowers are, and rivers and mountains and people, that you are simply happy, that you are blessed and you can bless others - is prayer.
With grace & peace,
HolyKarma.au
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