6th chakra - seat of concealed wisdom

as i travelled sleepily through the streets of a busy city in india, my attention focused on the bindis that float just between and above the eyebrows of everyone who passes by.

this is a movie of course because i've never been to india (yet) and i was surprised to see that everyone in this film both men and women wore bindis (i always throught that only women wore bindis as made popular in western cultures by gwen stefani and madonna).

in my semi-conscious fog i imagine the 6th chakras as eyes which we cannot see, but that which sees everything. the wise bindis winking and smiling at each other, silently acknowledging the divinity within each other, chuckling at the petty mortal problems that their bodies must endure in each life.

hello i'm the 6th chakra of jasmin, pleasure to meet you.

there are days when nothing matters anymore, it's all bullshit. people are stupid. some very fine thread of connection between my self and the rest of world is severed. and i suspect that this thread is connected to us by the 6th chakra.

my attraction to bindis starts here then. i can't help but wonder if wearing a bindi would help remind us every day that we are guided by something bigger than us - and i'm not talking about god or divinity. just our simple purpose in life - a purpose that has existed since the day we were born; passed on to us through ancient ancestry; directed by the ebb and flow today; and reaching always towards death and/or rebirth.