Preparation for the New Year – In the New Year we prepare to reflect the smile.

We embrace this coming New Year with a smile and resolve to see it through. We should introduce some methods for that and make it work. Change your perspectives and watch your world change by itself.

1. Observation.

Observe from time to time what causes us to turn away from smiling.

2. Conscious Understanding.

Reaffirm again and again that they are all nature. Sin and virtue, justice and injustice,  Justice injustice, Let them pass by without affecting us. Understand all the losses and damages that we face as experiences that nature gives us and recognize their content and do what is necessary.

3. How to respond?

Approach with equanimity whatever sinister comes directly at us (whether people, things or facts) and let it GO . It is best, if you can turn negatives into positives. Otherwise detach from them without succumbing your feeling and emotions to it. This will neutralise the negatives. Never cause to reflect the negatives. Understand karmic obligations for what they are and fulfil those obligations with an open mind.

Be neutral to all the exaggerations and sensationalism that the print media and social media generate through news and forwards, absorb only what is essential in them and only do only what is needed at that moment. Only those directly related to it may be informed. Be careful not to exaggerate and sentimentalize. Solace where it is needed.

4. The self-realized smile.

A smile from self gratification for being able to perform our dharma. It comes from within. Keep that smile on. After a while, start paying close attention to our surroundings. We can see the reflections of our smile coming back to us. Then that smile will evolve into bliss and ecstasy. There is no need for effort then, it just happens.