Happiness in inconsequenciality

I spent a day walking the streets of Varanasi with Ajai(sp) talking to him about his life, how he lived it, and why he was happy with it.  He is a beggar, quite literally a man with nothing who lives solely on the ability of others willing to give something small to him.

This isn’t the benign of a story nor is it the middle or an end just an introduction to a thought.  the thought is that if you can find happiness in nothingness or through nothingness that you can find happiness in everything and anything.

To continue it is not often that my mind isn’t running at anything less than 3/4 speed with its attention split by at least 4 different topics. so when I was at the gym exercising and my mind simply stopped and there was nothing but me and my current actions of sit-ups I felt perfectly at peace and happy.  Since my mind has returned to its usual but my days are happier and my thoughts less worried.  almost as if for a moment I remembered a bit of nothingness that I didn’t know… ultimately I know and realize that I am bored and unchanged by life, for now that isn’t bothering me.