Zen in an amusement park.

Zen and the Art of Amusement

In my day off, I decided to give up all my notions of wasting money and energy in amusement parks, to take my children Ojasvin and Omjasvin to Queens Land - along the Chennai Bangalore Highway.
I called up a taxi to take us to that place, just an hour's drive from my residence in Mogappair. It was a joy to see them in their best of clothes, all set to bounce with energy. The younger one wanted to take our teddy bear which I named Akshara after my Guru - Swami Akshara.
It was a really hot day and the children let me read Encounter The Enlightened, a collection of speeches of Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, though they told me earlier that I should be talking with them and not reading.
With tickets paid and bands tied on our hands, we walked in to hop on to the toy train that was ready to leave. For me it was like any share auto that I ride in Chennai, but for my children it was something novel to go on.
The next was so wheel - I forget what name it has (that's what happens at the end of the day, going through the rides this way and that, but don't really know what rides they were!)
With my penchant for contemplation, the different rides were but different triggers to my perception of Maya - seeing the world from a top-angle view. Just like the tora-tora, alpen blitz or roller coasters - life is full of twists and turns. Just as the mind which can go hither and thither, the rides go up and down, swing and turn, front and back. It takes just a bit wisdom to know and be with it as the show goes on.
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