Tuesday, 18 August 2015
Bratty boy!
lol i have a very very rebellious belly
hehehe
funny thing happened
after my fasting
when i was walking in the street
i felt real very light
like i did not sense the weight of my body
first time i felt so
really is like
i was walking in the air
the funny part is
my stomach
from my dreams
i understood that it was making a fuss
in the dream
i understood that it was revolting
and sending me messages of TOTAL REVOLT
AH THE BRAT!
hahaha
too funny
hey i knew not, to be honest
that the belly could be so fussy !
it has some character the bratty boy!
plus, it was
like saying
"why you punish me?..was doing so great with vibes.."
yea punish,
because i resumed eating...
*sigh*
bratty stomach
in dream it was clearly putting fire all around
ah such bratty one!
hahaha
i can't stop laughing
considering that each thing has its consciousness
and that my stomach is one of its kind!
anyway
to tame it
for i agree with it
i will resume this time fasting on water
but over 3 days this time
i can do it!
for if i can imagine it,
then i can do it!
what is most important
is to eat salt
for the more you drink water
the more it flushes the minerals out of your body
so you need to compensate with salt
and NOT table salt
but sea salt
and you smear it under your tongue
for it is where
are the blood vessels
so it will enters very DIRECTLY
into your blood stream
and drink water on top.
second major point
if no INTENSIVE meditation
is combined with fasting
then is just "fasting of the body"
as it is.
but if you combine it
with intensive meditation
which means per say "intensive"
like going out of your ways
to aim higher
then of course you will see the result
you ever saw no result when you set yourself on a project?
same with meditation
if you are honest with yourself
you know if you are just patching working your way to it
or truly are devoted to a higher vision of life.
kissi:x
ah bratty boy!
can't believe what kind of a stomach i have!
throwing tantrum 'cause unhappy!
Child world
ah the advantage of countryside
is that it feels timeless
green is very restful to the eyes
lately, i tried again
a two day fasting on water
is much easier than i thought
once in the day i felt hunger
but as i drank water
a minute later was gone
the fasting purifies the gross energy
from your ki channels
and hence your meditation is enhanced
plus i got back the habit of getting up
at 430 meditating at least half and hour
and then sleep again
hardly have i started it
the first day
when i went to sleep
it felt like a pool of water
formed itself on top of my head
ah such a nice feeling
i thanked God when the second day
was about to finish
but when third day started
i had no more the feeling or wish to eat
so easy it was
because the hardest is the first 2-3 days
after is like you become de-addicted
from food stuff
plus your body detoxifies itself
as it uses far less energy on processing the food
it can redirect it fully
to the healing of the body
this is why animals stop eating
when they get ill
during this period
i realised
the thoughts i was emitting
they were being picked up
very quickly by the kids
this is the conclusion i came too
because now i understand
as kids are very much intuitive
and natural
whatever comes to them
they reply to it
so i was thinking
if my new shoes were ok
lol
hardly i entered in the bus
that a kid in its pushchair said something
but i guess i was day dreaming
i heard it not
i happened to see the mom
and she said
my son is saying you have real nice shoes
:)))
doubt gone
thank you kid
now i know my shoes are pretty
hehehe
another day
i was walking down the street
and a dad has her kiddo facing me
i looked at her
and she started to laugh hard non stop
hahahaha
and then her whole family turned back
to look at me
hehehe
then we started to laugh
so funny it was getting
because kids
are very much sensitive to the energy
i guess they see it
so when she was laughing
i tried to imagine that i was reaching to her
with my energy
and tickling her
and as she laugh harder
i was uncaught by her family
hahaha but they laugh hard due to her contagious laughing
ah i like those moments.
finally
day next, i was at restaurant
and wondering where the bathroom may be
then a mom came with his son
he was a real lovely one
he was making faces to she
in this way i was sure that kid are a blessing to parents
as they teach them to take life less seriously
for the adults have very stucked up and close faced
and suddenly he said to her mom
you know if you want to go to bathroom
is not there
is downstair
innerly i felt so good
right at my place
because her mom had asked nothing
and innerly i had wondered where it could be
and when i heard the answer
it felt as if i am communicating
without talking
as i get answers so smoothly
so it felt like being in another world
the less i wonder about it
and let go
the better it gets
because i feel myself getting back
in that same kind of world
where i was as a child.
Sunday, 16 August 2015
Religions, ceremonies...lead to experientially realise our true nature
and are nothing else by themselves.
true, as we often hear it,
religions are not God
but lead to God
lead, meaning, they should lead YOU
out of your "current ways" towards experimenting their teachings.
without its experiment, the words are dead and are a burden.
which is interesting,
as in this article it is said :
"A fitting sentence can be a stake that tethers a donkey for 10,000 aeons."
is likewise in quran also said
that this quran is a load which is carried by people on their back as donkeys do...
meaning of which is expounded in the story.
So, another good article, with a nice story
and i like the author acute way of reading weak minded readers' mind lol
especially when he says is not in the hitting of the head that the enlightement resides in this story.(cf story)
main idea that i liked :
" [religions] lay a foundation so you can experientially realize this[your true nature]."
as religious people stop at the words :
"Words carry the mystery but they have no road. The tongue speaks without speaking."
The Boat Monk
Seems that a group of monks attained some degree of the Tao under a famous Zen teacher, Master Yao-shan. One of them was Teh-cheng and his dharma brothers were Yun-men and Tao-wu. Master Teh-cheng knew he didn't have the personality to teach a large number of people or run a monastery, so he told his brothers to send him someone of exceptional talent when they found one rather than open up a teaching center himself.
As is the rule, his job would also be to transmit the dharma to a qualified student if he could find one, but without a teaching center, he had no way to attract a student. Therefore his dharma brothers would have to send someone who had the karmic affinity with Teh-cheng for awakening. So he told them, "You know where I am staying. If you find a student of sharp potential, send him to me so that I may transmit the dharma."
Years later, it just so happened that Teh-cheng's dharma brother Tao-wu was attending a lecture by a famous monk, named Chia-shan, who already had a great following. Chia-shan knew all about the dharma and was extremely eloquent. He could respond to every question with the proper words, and yet he lacked the dharma eye...he lacked any true stage of attainment. Ask him any question and he could respond with the right words ... but without the dharma eye, everything was actually wrong because it could enlighten no one. He knew the words but did not know the real meaning -- he had not achieved it.
His case was like the intellectuals today who study the Bible, Koran, Buddhist sutras, Torah, or any such book or sets of books, know all the perfect words to use so that they sound as if they are in accord with the traditional teachings, and yet everything they say lacks any touch with True Reality. Why? Because those folks have no cultivation attainment themselves. They are dogma literalists rather than enlightened sages. So while they may be intellectually brilliant they are spiritually bereft, and cannot lead anyone to liberation.
That's the state of the world. That's 99.999999999999% of teachers and religious professionals out there.
So while attending the lecture, Master Tao-wu just kept himself quiet and concealed, but he snickered when Chia-shan answered a question correctly ... in order to attract attention. After it was over, Chia-shan respectfully approached master Tao-wu and asked what mistake he had made that his elder had done so.
Tao-wu replied, "You answered correctly, it's just that you've never been taught by a good teacher. I never explain things. If you want to learn, you must go to visit the boatman's place at the city of Hau-ting (where the Boatman Monk Teh-cheng was staying)."
Now because he really was interested in self-improvement, Chia-shan set off right away. This, in itself, shows he was of extraordinary character and not too full of himself. Chia-shan was right in theory, but did not have a real experience of the dharma, yet didn't know it. He thought he was right, but also suspected that he was wrong, that he was missing something though everything he said was correct and according to the scriptures. Amazingly, he was willing to take advice and was anxious to find the answer despite already being established and having a great reputation, so off he went.
Would you do that?
Now at the location, the dharma brother Teh-cheng had settled into a job ferrying people across a river, and had done so for several decades waiting for a good student. No one knew of his high stage of attainment. When the young monk arrived, with one look he knew that he had been cultivating and had some ability, but needed to be awakened to a true direct experience of the dharma. He needed a real, direct experience of the Tao. He knew all the right words, the sutras, the dharma and so forth, but he was clinging to all these explanations and his conceptualizations. He had become an intellectual master rather than reality master. He could not let go of them to realize no-self, no-ego, emptiness. Therefore he had not attained the Tao.
Upon meeting young master Chia-shan, who knew all the correct words but had no direct taste of reality, Teh-cheng opened up the conversation by asking, "What temple do you dwell in, oh virtuous one?"
Chia-shan answered with words that point to the Tao, though of course he did not have that stage of attainment: "I do not dwell in a temple. Dwelling is not like it."
Why did he say this? Because the original nature is not a state, and if you dwell or abide in any state it is NOT the Tao. Chia-shan was saying he understood the Tao by answering in such a way because a regular monk would simply have mentioned the name of his city or monastery.
The boatman then asked, "It is not like what?"
Chia-shan once again correctly answered the correct intellectual response, "It is not the phenomena before our eyes."
Because Chia-shan kept answering correctly, but without without possessing the true dharma experience himself, it was like someone who would respond with the right scriptural retort from the Bible ... though everything said was everything right and you could not find any fault with it, you could tell they were wrong. I'm sure you've had that experience because it is hard to explain.
A little bit disgusted at these canned responses, the Boat monk Teh-Cheng then asked, "Where did you learn all this (way of answering)?"
Chia-shan answered, "It is not something that the eyes or ears can reach," meaning it ultimately comes from the Tao. This time Chia-shan replied in such a way that you could take it as a smirk, with the hidden meaning being, "I know this and you don't? Who are you that you don't know these things?"
With that response, the Boatman monk then uttered a famous line, "A fitting sentence can be a stake that tethers a donkey for 10,000 aeons."
In other words, if you just cling to scripture, or intellectualization, or the words of this or that holy text without arriving at a genuine experience of the true meaning, if you don't experience the original nature, you will tie yourself up in ignorance (non-enlightenment) for aeons and never become free. Why? Because you cling to the intellect, in which case you are wrong. Words will not save you, scripture will not save you. Only cultivation practice and realization will save you!
How many people follow this pattern today? They quote the Torah and cling to it, all the while being correct in words, but WRONG. They cling to the Bible, reciting verses and sentences correctly, and yet they lack any attainment or any means for getting anywhere. They cling to the Koran, the Buddhist sutras, Taoist works and they are all wrong. They never fathom the meaning of the texts. They never reach enlightenment or samadhi or any genuine stage of attainment. They can talk about things all they want, but these are just intellectuals rather than spiritual leaders, people who know a lot about religious things but cannot lead you to the Tao. This is all you find today in churches, temples, mosques and monasteries. No one has the enlightenment eye, or even an inkling that it exists ... and they are even oblivious on how to get there.
"A fitting sentence can be a stake that tethers a donkey for 10,000 aeons" -- Master Teh-cheng was saying that Chia-shan was clinging to the dharma and relying on verbal tricks, and that this was stupid. It would get you absolutely nowhere on the path of true spiritual practice and striving and progress. It was just mental games, verbal tricks and memorization. REAL accomplishment comes from the cultivation practice of letting go and detaching from the realm of mentation to get to the substrate underneath it and EVERTHING.
"A fitting sentence can be a stake that tethers a donkey for 10,000 aeons" ... Chia-shan was stunned at this reply.
Zen master Teh-cheng then said, "The fishing line is hanging down a thousand feet, and the intent is deep in the pond. You're just three inches away from the hook. Why don't you say something?"
He was saying, "You've done so much meditation work your life and are so close you're ready to reach it. Why not say something expressing your original nature?"
Chia-shan was standing there, his mind emptied a bit because of the shock, and was just about to say something intellectual again when the Boat monk hit him with his oar and knocked him into the water.
Wham!
Chia-shan had just been ready to open his mouth again and say something that was in the scriptures when the Boat monk knocked the daylights out of him and he flew into the water.
As soon as Chia-shan's head popped up above the water again, the Boat monk once again shouted, "Speak! Speak!" and just as Chia-shan was about to open his mouth again, Wham! ... the Boat monk hit him again.
Now if you've had any sudden taste of emptiness where everything empties out (a religious experience), you can understand what happened next. Here's a man with a belly full of learning and it's all suddenly knocked out of him. He's been thrown into the water, he's worried for his life, and all his false thoughts have been whacked away.
That's the method the Boat monk used with Chia-shan.
Chia-shan could talk about anything in the dharma ... Consciousness only, the three Buddha bodies, skandhas, True Thusness, prajna wisdom, EVERYTHING. He understand all this but couldn't let go of it, so the Boat monk knocked him into the water to help him let go of everything he was clinging to. Even so, when asked to speak, Chia-shan was ready to spit out the dead scriptural words again, so Teh-cheng hit him again. When for the third time his head rose above the water, this time his mind had emptied out and he and become enlightened, so Chia-shan quickly nodded his head three times in quick succession to show Teh-cheng he had got it and he didn't need to be hit again.
Of course you cannot just hit someone to enlighten them. Don't think it's so easy. Chia-shan not only KNEW the dharma intellectually, but had spent his life meditating and had achieved some degree of emptiness, but just couldn't let go of his intellectualizations to see the path, to see the whole thing. He was close because of his previous attainments in meditation, but still clinging. He already had achieved a deep basis of cultivation beyond just studying, because of prolonged meditation work, and that basis is why Tao-wu sent him to the Boat monk. He was prepared....don't think someone can just whack you or slap you and you get it. Without countless years of meditation work, that would just get you a lawsuit today.
Master Teh-cheng was able to transmit the dharma only because Chia-shan had already spent years mixing practice with study. Master Teh-cheng was able, through the expedient means of whacking him, to help Master Chia-shan let go of everything and see the Path, see the Tao, realize self-enlightenment. If Master Chia-shan had not been a meditator, however, none of this would have been possible. So don't think that just studying scriptures and sutras -- of any kind -- will do it. You have to do the meditation work, open up your chi channels, chakras and so forth. You have to cultivate samadhi, but none of that is the Tao. It's just a preparation because those are all still illusory realms and false stations. They are not ultimate or supreme. They are there to help you clear out in a progressive sense, but when you reach enlightenment there are no stages -- you just let go of everything in one fell swoop. That's why it's called breaking through the conception skandha.
Upon being hit with the oar when in the water, Chia-shan GOT IT. His years of preparation and study, together with the Boatman's excellent skillful means, enabled him to let go, empty out and see the Tao. If you know the theory, that's why the story is so beautiful, so wonderful. But then, while still in the water, Chia-shan asked, "If you throw away the hook and line, what is your intent, teacher?"
In other words, Chia-shan then had doubts and asked about functioning. He was asking, "What about the methods for making an effort in the realm of existence if everything is empty... What do you do about them?"
Master Teh-cheng replied, "The fishing line hangs in the water, floating to set the meaning of existence and non-existence." In other words, don't talk of emptiness and don't talk of existence. Neither is right, and thus you don't cling to either and you can do what you want independently. You are free and liberated. Cause and effect still operates amidst phenomena, but you do not cling to them or the process. You realize the inherent fundamental emptiness of phenomena but you do not cling to it either. You are independent and free.
Master Chia-shan then said, "Words carry the mystery but they have no road. The tongue speaks without speaking." In other words, speaking is the same as non-speaking, emptiness and existence are equivalent to one another.
Master Teh-cheng was VERY happy at hearing this because then he knew Chia-shan had got it. He knew that Chia-shan had finally realized the Truth and was speaking from experience rather than from some scripture he had memorized and studied. So Teh-cheng then said, "After having fished through all these rivers [having piloted this ferry day after day for decades wanting to carry someone over to the other side], I have finally encountered a golden carp [enlightened person].
Chia-shan covered his ears at hearing this, and master Teh-shan said in response, "That's right, that's right!"
Then he told Chia-shan, "From now on you must leave no tracks where you hide yourself. But you must not hide yourself where there are no tracks."
He expressed in a high literary style many meanings: that Chia-shan must continually cultivate that state of no-thought/emptiness he had just achieved wherein there are no tracks. Furthermore, he must go somewhere where no one knew who he was, and leave his fame behind, and thus go into hiding in order to finish his cultivation. He also said that Chia-shan must not remain
clinging to emptiness either, for that was also wrong.
The Boat monk then continued, "I was with Zen master Yao-shan for 30 years and I only took away this which you have just experienced/realized. Nothing more. You have just attained it. This is the meaning of all the teachings and nothing more. It's nothing else either than experientially realizing this. In the future you should not live in towns or villages but go deep into the mountains, find one or two people to continue the teaching and do not let it be cut off."
Chia-shan was out of the water by this time, and since the dharma had been transmitted, he started off to return home. The whole thing happened just this quickly, the dharma had been passed, and there was nothing more to be done.
But for a moment Master Chia-shan doubted that was all and so he turned around, wandering if there was something else he was missing, if it all came to just this?
Upon seeing this, Zen master Teh-cheng shouted back to him, holding up an oar and saying, "Did you think there was something else?" Then he capsized the boat and disappeared under the water to show there was nothing else. You see, if you cling to all the pageantry of Tibetan Buddhism, you are wrong. It's just an expedient method created to help you REALIZE THIS. If you cling to the Torah or Bible, you are wrong. It's just to help you lay a foundation so you can experientially realize this. Nothing in the universe is absolute. The wind, the rocks, the flowers are all singing the dharma to help you awaken.
The meaning of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, Taoism, Confucianism, yoga, alchemy and all the religions is to realize our fundamental nature. All the ceremonies, scriptures, prayers, and practices are to enable you to experientially realize THIS. That's the purpose of all the scriptures.
What else did you think it was about? Some ceremony or special belief?
Now you finally know. Cultivate!
source : http://www.meditationexpert.com/zen-buddhism-tao/z_boat-monk_teh-cheng.htm
Saturday, 15 August 2015
Awareness vs Consciousness
Very nice article about awareness vs consciousness
key sentence :
when the awareness touches the object it becomes consciousness.
is all the more important when you realise that in french they often switch one with the other while translating original articles, or talks.
even the word awareness happens to be translated as consciousness..
What is Consciousness vs. Awareness?
What is consciousness? Science seems perplexed when it has to
address this question because it really doesn’t have an answer. But
according to Buddhism, the appearance of objects in the mind is known
as consciousness. You can also say that the conceptualization of
objects within/as consciousness is known as “mind.” Without that content
we colloquially say there is no mind.
Before the appearance of objects we still have awareness, but it
is empty. Awareness when it touches objects becomes consciousness. So
awareness without objects is the aprior state before consciousness and
is the ground state that “supports” consciousness. Awareness is always
empty in a not-knowing state. It just shines or illuminates. That’s
called effulgence, which means radiance, brightness, illumination or
shining. Without touching objects, awareness just remains in its own
body and shines, it be-s itself, it just is. That’s “presence” or
being. That’s also self-effulgence so effulgence is the nature of
awareness. It’s like a great bodyless body of not-knowing knowing. You
cannot identify it as either existence or non-existence, as either real
or not real because it transcends all these descriptions. It is
without these two attributes because that is its purity. Awareness is
an ever shining function of our real ultimate essence of being. It
allows us to know and understand because it allows us to be aware of
consciousness - all the moving stuff.
On the other hand, “our mind” is something more objective because
“mind” means clear differentiation and understanding. “Mind” involves
clear discrimination—that which discriminates the characteristics of
objects. So we use the mind to understand things because mind
understands the manipulation of consciousness. Mind is a pattern of
consciousness which is born from awareness which is in turn a function
of our original nature. At least that’s the explanation of Buddhism and
Advaita Vedanta, which have had thousands of years to work out robust
definitions and explanations.
In terms of the teachings of spiritual schools, consciousness
isn’t yet our ultimate ground state of being because consciousness
knowing isn’t our ultimate original nature; it is a looking outward to
objects rather than a state resting in itself as its real essence
without elaboration. We mistakenly think that knowingness or
consciousness, which we colloquially term the “mind,” is our real self
but it is not. It cannot be because it is inconstant and does not
always stay. It's just flitting all the time. There is still something
ultimate behind consciousness, there is something that transcends the
oridnary mind, there is still something behind knowing and what is
behind it that spiritually transcends it is ever present, never moving,
always empty, shining awareness. In fact, the highest secret of the Zen
school of Buddhism is that our consciousness and then even awareness
are not the ultimate, fundamental “host” or “Self.” Consciousness and
awareness are still a “guest,” they are still a function of the Absolute
nature.
The realm of consciousness is only a projection of the original
nature. It’s still a dependently existing construction, which means it
depends upon other elements for its existence. It is just a function of
the original nature, or God, or Self, or however you wish to word it.
And because consciousness depends upon other things for its existence,
it cannot be the ultimate state of reality. As to the actual realm of
the enlightened, the Buddha Manjushri said, “It is not something that
can be known by consciousness, nor is it an object of the mind.” It
transcends consciousness, it is aprior. You cannot find This Ultimate
One with the mind of thoughts, so how do you find It? By no-mind,
no-thought, by not attaching to thoughts but letting them just be there
when they are, but never attaching to them while maintaining presence.
These are deep words that science has not yet fathomed. At best
psychiatry and psychology deal with the mental events of the mind,
trying to put them into groups having this or that shape or meaning.
Cognitive science is still puzzling how objects “out there” turn into
mental events inside the brain and then consciousness, so it has not
proceeded far in this direction either. In this new century, the best
advice we can give neuroscience and cognitive science is to examine the
ancient schools of Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta to discover what they
have to say about consciousness and the many various modalities of the
mind.
Thursday, 13 August 2015
8 Subconscious Behaviors That Are Keeping You From Having the Life You Want
EXCELLENT ARTICLE
a must read
i have been personally spammed with it at least - say 4 times a day
over the past few days - by a friend who wanted me to read it.
and yes it worths it!
lol as my fiancé said :))
i guess jesus, moses and muhammad are making hurray in their heaven,
as she finally read it, neh?;)
anyway, is a great read
very impactful, true, and to the point
just what you need to read too
8 Subconscious Behaviors That Are Keeping You From Having the Life You Want
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The objectivity required to see the effects of present monoculture is very difficult to maintain (once you have so deeply accepted an idea as 'truth' it doesn't register as 'cultural' or 'subjective' anymore) ... but it's crucial. So much of our inner turmoil is simply the result of conducting a life we don't inherently agree with, because we have accepted an inner narrative of "normal" and "ideal" without ever realizing.
The fundamentals of any given monoculture tend to surround how to live your best life, how to live a better life, and what's most worth living for (nation, religion, self, etc.) and there are a number of ways in which our current system has us shooting ourselves in the feet as we try to step forward. Simply, there are a few fundamentals on happiness, decision making, instinct following and peace finding that we don't seem to understand.
So here, eight of the daily behaviors and unconscious habits that are keeping you from the life you really want.
1. You believe that creating your best possible life is a matter of deciding what you want and then going after it, but in reality, you are psychologically incapable of being able to predict what will make you happy.
Your brain can only perceive what it's known, so when you choose what you want for the future, you're actually just re-creating a solution or an ideal of the past. Ironically, when said ideas don't come to fruition (things never look the way we think they will) you suffer, because you think you've failed, when really, you're most likely experiencing something better than you could have chosen for yourself at the time. (Moral of the story: Living in the moment isn't a lofty ideal reserved for the zen and enlightened, it's the only way to live a life that isn't infiltrated with illusions... it's the only thing your brain can actually comprehend.)
2. You extrapolate the present moment because you believe that success is somewhere you "arrive," so you are constantly trying to take a snapshot of your life and see if you can be happy yet.
You accidentally convince yourself that any given moment is your life, when in reality, it is a moment in your life. Because we're wired to believe that success is somewhere we get to - when goals are accomplished and things are completed - we're constantly measuring our present moments by how "finished" they are, how good the story sounds, how someone else would judge the summary. (If at any point you find yourself thinking: "is this all there is?" you're forgetting that everything is transitory. There is nowhere to "arrive" at. The only thing you're rushing toward is death. Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you learn and enjoy and expand in the process of doing them is.)
3. You assume that when it comes to following your "gut instincts," happiness is "good," and fear and pain is "bad."
When you consider doing something that you truly love and are invested in, you are going to feel an influx of fear and pain, mostly because it will involve being vulnerable. When it comes to making decisions, you have to know that bad feelings are not deterrents. They are indicators that you want to do something, but it scares you (which are the things most worth doing, if you ask me). Not wanting to do something would make you feel indifferent about it. Fear = interest.
4. You needlessly create problems and crises in your life because you're afraid of actually living it.
The pattern of unnecessarily creating crisis in your life is actually an avoidance technique. It distracts you from actually having to be vulnerable or held accountable or whatever it is you're afraid of. You're never upset for the reason you think you are: at the core of your desire to create a problem is simply the fear of being who you are, and living the life you want.
5. You think that to change your beliefs, you have to adopt a new line of thinking, rather than seek experiences that make that thinking self-evident.
A belief is what you know to be true because experience has made it evident to you. If you want to change your life, change your beliefs. If you want to change your beliefs, go out and have experiences that make them real to you. Not the opposite way around.
6. You think "problems" are road blocks to achieving what you want, when in reality, they are pathways.
If you haven't heard it before, Marcus Aurelius sums this up well: "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." Ryan Holiday explains it even more gracefully: "The obstacle is the way." Simply, running into a "problem" forces you to take action to resolve it. That action leads you down the path you had ultimately intended to go anyway, as the only "problems" in your life ultimately come down to how you resist who you are and how your life naturally unfolds.
7. You think your past defines you, and worse, you think that it is an unchangeable reality, when really, your perception of it changes as you do.
Because experience is always multi-dimensional, there are a variety of memories, experiences, feelings, "gists" you can choose to recall... and what you choose is indicative of your present state of mind. So many people get caught up in allowing the past to define them, or haunt them, simply because they have not evolved to the place of seeing how the past did not prevent them from achieving the life they want... it facilitated it (see: the obstacle is the way). This doesn't mean to disregard or gloss over painful or traumatic events, but simply to be able to recall them with acceptance and to be able to place them in the storyline of your personal evolution.
8. You try to change other people, situations and things (or you just complain/get upset about them) when anger = self-recognition.
Most negative emotional reactions are you identifying a disassociated aspect of yourself. Your "shadow selves" are the parts of you that, at some point, you were conditioned to believe were "not okay," so you suppressed them and have done everything in your power not to acknowledge them. You don't actually dislike these parts of yourself, though, you absolutely love them. So when you see somebody else displaying one of these traits, it absolutely infuriates you, not because you inherently dislike it, but because you have to fight your desire to fully integrate it into your whole consciousness. The things you love about others are the things you love about yourself. The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.
Monday, 10 August 2015
Poem "The Flower"
it is only pretty
if you take a look at it closely.
you have to look at it for a long time
to realise that it is lovely.
you too you are like that
- Na tae joo "The Flower"
when i heard that poem
i thought that it spoke of
how when you look at
your true self long enough
you realise you are that
you are that pretty.
Friday, 31 July 2015
Power of awareness
woa
it is second time in my life
i felt so
this time not as strong as the first time
here what happened
i was writing
and suddenly
is like the shawl i was wearing zoom out somehow?
so much that it came into my attention
can one say is like the shawl was alive?
or with a consciousness?
and after when my attention got caught by it
the feeling i felt
can only be -unfortunately written in word
though there were no words or voice-
is like i felt
love out of the shawl
isn't it amazing?
a living thing
emitting love
but also
is like i saw
that this shawl was put on me
out of love by mother earth
because i could see like the action of having being covered
by a loving hand
writing it i assured myself
that indeed i am not drunk
lol
i never drink
hehehe
but this reminded me
of what happened in 2005
because when i was praying
i literally felt love being emitted from the clothes i was wearing
and i felt with a great clarity the kindness and care with which
the earth let the clothes loose enough by adjusting the gravity
so that clothes could hang so naturally on my body
not too strained due to a disproportioned gravity
nor too loose due to a lower one like on the moon lol
by then i knew not
but i think this is awareness side effect
isn't it?
because stuff changes not
only our perception
which quality can increase
only if your attention is within
and the awareness has this quality to let you see love
which is all around
even love emitted by your own clothes
ah i feel loved lol
Being good to ourselves
may be is one of the few first-time
i realised or felt quickly what awareness is
if i am not wrong on using this word
i was working
and somehow did a mistake
of appreciation in making the right choice
i even forget what it was about really
but i happened to smile to myself
and incredibily enough!
it is as if another "i" in me
felt the smile it was directed to
and this "i" that was in the heart
felt a very lovely and soft feeling
that was warm
it astonished me
because it is rare
usually i realise
we hardly smile
and if we do
we smile at others
and very rarely to ourselves..
and even if we do
in very rare occasion
then we don't really feel it
is just on the face
but it reaches not our own heart
and when you get used to a pattern
you can't know what warmth you are missing out
all the while, isn't it?
and so
for me
was like one "i" - say my personality
genuinely smiled to "myself"
the self in me
and this is different from the claim to smile to ourselves
because this time was true
only for the fact that my attention was really inside me
and this is why it reached my heart
and i felt my own heart
-as it is were a different personality
say the spirit within
as it is the love is the heart attribute-
who did receive the smile
and a daft of warmth went out of it
and in return my own personality
who sent it
received it back
and now
when i think of it
it felt as if i was not alone working
because there was this exchange
so it felt as if i was with someone else
ah i have tears in my eyes
so good it felt
and also so simple
now i remember
to feel happy in one's own presence
i am
it seems
getting the natural hang
of loving myself
which i had forgotten
by not letting go
and letting my attention out
or on some plans, worries and so on.
and this balance
of bringing back attention within
came by me realising
that each behavior is allowed
and there is no self blame
(so i learn to be soft and loving to myself)
as long as i consciously let go
by using meditation for once
and second,
if i learn to get back the power
i gave to others out of misplaced trust
for i learn
that sometimes we expect others to change their behavior
more or less unconsciously
thinking their aim is to improve
so while waiting for this change
we forget to let go
as we are waiting
see?
and of course
waiting goes not without accumulation of pressure
and this leads to lack of balance
be it in terms of dislike, anger, hate, frustration etc.
the best decision to ever do
is always to be loving to oneself first and foremost
let go of expecting good/self-correction from others
for this very rarely happen as a free-willed consistent behavior
which in turns lead us to reclaim our power back
and as our attention is really
as a whole where it should be
imagine
even the little things
such as a good thought directed to ourself
or even a smile
not mentioning any other good work!
everything is sent back to you
by your own heart
and that is first time i realised
why it is said
when you do good
God give it back to you 10 times more
is because to start with
good
is only when you attention is IN
and not some conventional "good"
expected from you by societal norms
second
as you have free will
if you choose to do a good action
this choice is say mental first?
and as your attention is inside
the good is received by your own heart
and heart power is much more powerful
than the mental power, isn't it?
hence it is said you get at LEAST 10 times more
and i think even in some hadith it is said
could be rewarded 70 000 times more
or as much as God want
because now i understand
it all depends on the purity of your heart
and thus its power to nourish you back with the good you sent forth
extending on that
when you learn to be good to yourself
which is like learning to walk
then you can learn to be good to others
which is aliek to learning to run
and thus
whoever tells you
you are not good enough
or match not "my standard of goodness"
know that this person is lying
because truth is what you know about the experience you do of yourself
with your own attention.
good night
kiss:x
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