A Perfect World of Ease and Beauty

Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 01:23am by David Askaripour in Life

I once heard that Beethoven didn’t start hearing until he went deaf. Maybe that’s to say that we never really start seeing until we go blind. People tend to think that the more they pay attention, the more they “listen up,” and concentrate, and the more serious they are about something — anything — that they’ll learn more. I used to think that. I used to think that the harder you try, the better you’ll become.

Trying “hard” is a interesting concept. Hard. What do you think of when you hear the word hard? What does hard mean? What do you visualize in your mind?

I see rocks. I see a wooden floor. I feel cold. I think about immobility. I think of pressure and even stress. I’m not a big fan of hard nowadays. Anything hard is forced. A diamond is created from immense and tremendous pressure… no wonder why it’s the hardest thing on earth.

When a job or task is hard, we automatically equate it with stress, long hours, headaches, and a whole bunch of “oh….mans…. geezzz… gosh…”

When we fall down on the ground hard, it hurts. When we say something in a hard tone, we offend. When we define someone as “hard” it usually means that they are tough or a gangster pushing drugs.

What about easy? What comes to your mind when you think about easy. What do you feel? What do you hear? What images do you see?

I think of a butterfly gracefully coasting through the sky on a spring morning with the birds chirping and the flowers exuding their sweet honey fragrances. I think of someone just chilling, relaxing, sitting back and reading a book in peace on the beach. I hear someone humming a tune and smiling.

“Take it easy…” We say that when someone needs to let go and relax. Our minds are at “ease” when we are comfortable and stress free. Our ideas flow effortlessly and everything becomes so easy to us when we’re in that certain zone, right?

I have an idea. An idea that everything in the world is easy. Everything is just as how it should be, right now. That everything naturally flows just as easy as the butterfly takes flight and soars without even trying. And as easy as a bud blossoms into an amazing flower.

We are the ones who make everything hard. When we try “hard” we get “hard” results. When we flow with the nature of things and “ease” into them, we get easy results.

Let go. Let go of your thoughts. Stop thinking and trying to shape a world that’s already perfectly formed. Underneath all your stress, imperfections, unfulfilled desires, complex situations, drama, whatever it is that you are trying to shape…lies perfection. Perfectly at ease. Perfect harmony. Perfect balance.

Beethoven began hearing when he became deaf, I think, because he was finally able to calm the storm. He was able to crumble the steel molds desperately trying to shape his music into an already perfect world. When the world became silent, for once, he heard the perfection in himself. In his music.

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