All this documentaries about Partition in India.

All this documentaries about Partition in India.

All this is making me terribly longing. I see the old man comforting the woman about the horrors that were done to her familly and his and many others. Giving her his blessing. Reminding her that it is all in God's will. I miss this. Remembering that is it all in Nature's plan is easy when you're happy, knowing it about the sufference too is something else alltogether.
India to me has become the kindom of spirituality. Not because it is more present there, I believe people bring their own spirituality into their life anywhere in the world. But India is where I have learnt it.
My childhood was lined with the Buddhism of Nichiren Dai Shonin by my parents' daily practice, you would have thought this would have seeped into me more than it do. What seeped into me was their disdain for Christianity, the omnipresent religion in europe at the moment. I grew up learning to look down upon the biggots and reactionnaries who became synonymous with spirituality. Religion and spirituality can join and enhance each other, but they can also be very much separate, to the great loss of religion I feel.

Maybe it is because the places I went in India --Auroville, and more recently Dharamshala, the refuge town of the Dalai Lama-- were open and trying to encourage people towards greater personal beliefs.
I have, being back in england, forgotten to work towards world peace consciously in my every action. And I feel how much I'm missing out.
I've come to realise how beautiful it is to have this shining thread to follow in your daily life, how beautiful it is for the image you project (through clothes, hair, makeup..) to be influenced by your spirituality. This reminds you that you are a child of Nature and so is everyone else, through their good days and their angry days. How beautiful it is to remember why you do practice certain rituals. Yes they can be supperficial and done out of habit, but the strive to better yourself for the benefit of humanity is holy and can be remembered through these actions.

It's our awareness of our will to better ourselves for others that is important.