Journey to Love!

Fear and Do it

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:22:34 GMT

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil may become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision recognize it as such." Henry Miller Fear breeds luck of experience, luck of experience breeds ignorance, ignorance breeds more fear. It is a vicious circle. When we begin to feel fear, we look around for something to fear. Considering all there is to look at (the media, the environment, our body, our memory, our imagination), we have little trouble finding something. Thus, the fear grows - our perception of the world darkens and it becomes an increasingly terrible place. Eventually, we start avoiding all things and thoughts that even might produce fear, or that might produce the fear of fear. It is one of the great jokes of existence. When people take the courage to journey into the center of their fear, they find - nothing. It was only many layers of fear, being afraid of itself. Put another way, fear is interest paid on a debt you may not owe. We are all, right now, living the life of our own choosing. This choice, of course, is not a single, monumental choice. No. the choices we're talking about here are made daily, hourly, moment by moment. The bottom-line question: Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear? Do we pursue what we want, or do we do what's comfortable? For the most part, most people often choose comfort - the familiar, the time-honored, the well-worn but well-known. After a lifetime of choosing between comfort and risk, we are left with the life we currently have. And it was all of our own choosing. Often, what we really want is hidden beneath what we've settled for. When we know we can have what we want- that the comfort zone is under control - we can remember what it is we truly want. The comfort zone is our personal area of thoughts and actions within which we feel comfortable; it's all the things we've done (or thought) often enough to feel comfortable doing (or thinking). Anything we've haven't done lies outside the parameters of the comfort zone. When we do (or think) these things (basically, anything new) we feel uncomfortable. How do we feel? We probably feel some tinges of fear; guilt, unworthiness, hurt feelings and/anger - the feelings we lump into the general category of uncomfortable. After feeling uncomfortable long enough , we tend to give up. Some people gave up before they even began. Fear, guilt, unworthiness, hurt feelings and anger are, of course, emotions. Emotion is energy in motion We take our energy and put it in motion; sometimes it's joy, sometimes it's pain, sometimes it's pleasure, sometimes it's pride - whatever the emotion, the energy that's in motion is what we put in motion. People often want to "get rid of" a "negative" emotion - fear, say, or unworthiness - before attempting something new. That's the same thing as saying, "I want to get rid of some of my energy." The difficulty lies in a fundamental misperception of the so-called " limiting" emotions. The limitation is not in the emotions themselves, but in the way we've programmed to perceive these emotions. It is a matter of understanding their true use and function - and remembering that the energy pushing up and the energy pushing down is our energy. Imagine if all the energy of fear, guilt, unworthiness, hurt feelings and anger were available to help us to achieve anything we wanted. Well, they are. You'll note that when you move past your comfort zone you find adventure, excitement, satisfaction and the answer to some questions you may never have known to ask before.

Life is difficult

Sun, 5 Oct 2008 05:22:34 GMT

Problems and Pain Discipline This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult � once we truly understand and accept it � then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. I know about this moaning because I have done my share. Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems. What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending upon their nature, evoke in us frustration or grief or sadness or loneliness or guilt or regret or anger or fear or anxiety or anguish or despair. These are uncomfortable feelings, often very uncomfortable, often as painful as any kind of physical pain, sometimes equaling the very worst kind of physical pain. Indeed, it is because of the pain that events or conflicts engender in us all that we call them problems. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy. Yet it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we challenge and encourage the human capacity to solve problems, just as in school we deliberately set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems. Most of us are not so wise. Fearing the pain involved, almost all of us, to a greater or lesser degree, attempt to avoid problems. We procrastinate, hoping that they will go away. We ignore them, forget them, pretend they do not exist. We even take drugs to assist us in ignoring them, so that by deadening ourselves to the pain we can forget the problems that cause the pain. We attempt to skirt around problems rather than meet them head on. We attempt to get out of them rather than suffer through them. This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since most of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, most of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree, lacking complete mental health. Some of us will go to quite extraordinary lengths to avoid our problems and the suffering they cause, proceeding far afield from all that is clearly good and sensible in order to try to find an easy way out, building the most elaborate fantasies in which to live, sometimes to the total exclusion of reality. In the succinctly elegant words of Carl Jung, "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering." But the substitute itself ultimately becomes more painful than the legitimate suffering it was designed to avoid. The neurosis itself becomes the biggest problem. True to form, many will then attempt to avoid this pain and this problem in turn, building layer upon layer of neurosis. Fortunately, however, some possess the courage to face their neuroses and begin � usually with the help of psychotherapy � to learn how to experience legitimate suffering. In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without healing, the human spirit begins to shrivel. I have stated that discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life's problems. What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, these means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying of gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing. Therefore, after analyzing each of these tools, we shall in the next section examine the will to use them, which is love.

No Way Out

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:22:34 GMT

You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'.... It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out.... Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.... --U.G. Whatever you experience has already been experienced by someone else. Your telling yourself, "Ah! I am in a blissful state," means that someone else before you has experienced that and has passed it on to you.� Whatever may be the nature of the medium through which you experience, it is a second-hand, third-hand, and last-hand experience. These experiences, however extraordinary, aren't worth a thing. It is not yours. There is no such thing as your own experience.� The sensory activity of the living organism is all that exists. Culture has superimposed on it something else which is always in the field of sensuality. Whether it is a spiritual experience or any other experience, it is in the field of pleasure. The moment a sensation is translated as a pleasurable one there is already a problem. The translation is possible only through the help of knowledge. But the body rejects both pain and pleasure for the simple reason that any sensation that lasts longer than its natural duration is destroying the sensitivity of the nervous system. But we are interested only in the sensual aspect of the sensory activity. Actually what we see here [in ourselves] is the opposite of what we would like to be, what we would want to be, what we think ought to be or should be. Otherwise there is no way you can create an image of yourself. Since you want to be something other than what you are, (that's what the culture has put in there,) you create something which is the opposite [of what you would like to be]. That is all the time struggling to be something other than what it is. So what is here is the opposite of what you would like to be, and so that creates time. Thought can never conceive the possibility of achieving anything except in time. It does not want to let go of this image which is created by what you would like to be, what you think you ought to be or should be. No way out!

Jnana-Yoga or how to become crazy with the help of your mind

Mon, 26 Aug 2008 05:22:34 GMT

It turns out that the only real desire of human being is to acquire stability in his individual existence, whatever it may be - physical, emotional, or intellectual. �How can we stabilize intellectual existence? There are two ways to achieve clarity, which, in fact, represent various aspects of the same process, which is called patience. �Our "silly mind" has just enough brain to know - if all problems created by ignorance, the key is to understand. At the beginning it does not even see any difference between understanding and knowledge, but this should be so, because in reality there is just understanding, and knowledge is simply impossible.� The man knows nothing except his thoughts. To understand is to reconcile these thoughts with each other. I will have to justify this statement that people may know nothing except their thoughts, and they understand nothing of what they know.� The person is nothing more than the sum of the knowledge about himself (there is even a version that man is only a distortion of consciousness, because consciousness is not a pure person).�In other words, �I� is this sort of information that takes place inside of our nervous system, the existence of which is guessed on the basis of our inherent sense. Everyone is a slave of his own understanding, and lives only in the world, which his understanding allows him to see.�If you think you understand my words, this does not give you any privileges. If we take fool who knows that he knows everything, and Socrates, who knows that he knows nothing, then both of them - people who know. Regardless of content, any kinds of knowledge substantially identical.�Incidentally, if you think that this is an abstract scholasticism, without a particular goal, you are mistaken. The goal is very specific - to experience profound disappointment in our ability to understand anything, let alone to know. �If you survive it, the question "why?" simply will not arise.Man cannot know anything� Because he is a prisoner of his nervous system. We realize it using our common sense� Which is in turn no more than a reflex, hence is unreliable foundation to make conclusions based on it.Therefore, the first affirmation: "Man cannot know anything!" cannot be reliable� The previous statement is nothing more than the conclusion, based on the common sense. �Are you scared? I am, very much.� In fact, this sacred horror was experienced by ancient Greeks, and I suspect that it is them who said: �IF you are going to think THIS WAY (philosophically) at the end you will not be able to understand yourself!�Fine. If you are still with me, turn off the anti virus in your head, and listen carefully. (to be continued..)

Random Thoughts

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:22:34 GMT

To wish that what you already have, is the highest state of mind. And then something amazing happens, you realize that you have all that you wish. Consciousness is an incident that allows us to distinguish the imagined reality from the absolute reality, bit by bit. Belief is such a phenomenon that gives us the ability to perceive the imagined reality as a real one. The fear is a trend that serves to strengthen and to prolong the imagined reality, like a dropped anchor, that secures the state of a vessel.

Stuck in Being (part 2)... Evolution of Consciousness

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:22:34 GMT

"Nobody ever has any truth, just various degrees of falsehood." Our evolution has taken us from a period of separation to a point of unification, although we are far from the end of our journey. The prehistoric people knew little difference between the real and the unreal. The dream state was as real for them as waking state, thus they acted upon the dreams as though they were real. Dreams are frequently examined for all sorts of reasons but their real value is as an analogy.

IN PRAISE OF BEING STUCK

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:22:34 GMT

Great article, where an author explains his point of view on being stuck, by building a bridge from Psychotherapy to Spiritual Practice. Frankly speaking, his writing compliments my last article, and might serve as an introduction to the second part of "Stuck in Being." , which is coming up shortly. "People come to psychotherapy for many reasons with a variety of hopes and expectations as well as anxieties and apprehensions. A precipitating life event, the end of a relationship, a change in career, are just some of the external situations in a person's life that can bring them into therapy. Internally, there may be feelings of confusion, fear, anxiety and depression. There is perhaps one experience that is common to all the problems we associate with the work of therapy. That is the feeling of being stuck. Feeling stuck, blocked or just not moving in our lives is a universal human experience. Perhaps it is part of life's journey to experience times when we are stagnant and do not know why or what to do. Sometimes, it may be a simple matter that is resolved by sleeping on the problem, listening to our favorite music, or taking a long walk in the woods. But this is not what I mean by being stuck. What do we do when we find ourselves up to our necks in quicksand, when we are at a dark point and feel scared, when we trip and fall and it hurts? What do we do when we have exhausted all known resources trying to get ourselves unglued, free of our tormenting thoughts, the fears that keep us awake at night? What then? Continue reading an article...

Becoming Aware of Yourself

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 05:22:34 GMT

Stuck in Being

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 05:22:34 GMT

Who are we? Body, thoughts, or a witness of all that is?!

Wed, 6 Aug 2008 05:22:34 GMT

Self is a product of the society, well, and heredity (genetics), which is a product of previous societies. All our knowledge about the world, acquired from the very childhood, passed on from generation to generation. An element of fate clearly emerges in the analysis of our "self". Assuming, that we are not our body and mind, as both are a product of evolution of the society, and undergoes a constant change, it prompts the question, who are we? It must be something constant, that doesn�t change, and has no characteristics. This is logical because, what is characterized, and undergoes a change, turns into something different from what it was previously.We must determine, allocate a component of us, which is constant, no matter what. What has not changed in us throughout the years? In various theories it has different names: "witness," "spirit," "consciousness," and so on, but all the theories have a common description of it. It is something in us that is witnessing everything, the presence, without condemnation, and assessments for all occurring, including our self. If you stop for a second your thoughts, and just become aware of everything that happens around you, you can experience, get a glimpse of pure awareness. You are the immense field of consciousness in which all objects appear and disappear, including your body and mind. Lights on, and you are back to your thoughts, firmly believing, that they are real. Let's go back to our "self", with which we associate most of our stay in this world. "Self" is a child of society, and without society there is no "self". It requires constant reaffirmation of its existence, which is received from society. The Society is also a formation that develops, and transforms, under the influence of many "self". All are interlinked, all affect each other. Good and bad are a foundation of society. "Good and bad" are not constant. What was good yesterday today is considered bad, and vice versa. In general, there is nothing good and nothing bad, all defined in accordance with the need of individual to survive. Unfortunately, or luckily, a person can not create a separate individual mechanism for defining "good and bad", only conceptually, but in practice, in life, for any mechanism to be an active one, participation of other selves is necessary. Self can be separated from the society to the extent that your leg or arm can exists regardless of your body. The evolution of a human is a long way to realization of who he is indeed. It is many layers of conditional ties (creation of mind), which he must live out, and experience many times; until he sees that this is only an illusion of his mind. Hence, the meaning of life unfolds in front of his own eyes. What is needed and what should be ... already have been and always will.

God , Help us , Please!

Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:22:34 GMT

~ ~ * ~ ~ ~ ~ * ~ ~ If I told you, that everything is very simple, no brainier; eat healthy, work out, don't worry, and you will have a fairly good life, you would agree with me, but just for a minute, the very minute you�d be reading this sentence. Then you would go back to life full of contradictions. Eat healthy and work out? How many of us do that? Few. Moreover, there are times when we feel depressed, fed up with our unhappy life, and we ask for help, God, higher self, or other almighty sources: �Why this is happening to me? � How long am I going to suffer? Please, help me, let me know what to do.� This is ridiculous, don�t you think so, we know what to do, we are, actually, doing the opposite, and praying for some magical help to come and get us out of this mess. What happens? Do we forget about it, that we are the ones who don�t do proper things to feel better? I think that�s exactly what is going on. This is a great example of beliefs in work, and how complicated it is to be aware of them. This also tells us that we are rarely conscious of our "active thoughts", or beliefs, for that matter. A neighbor of mine,a Christian believer, often mentions that she prays to God in the times when she feels sick(she has many symptoms, such as arthritis and so on), and also asks God for help to fight the devil. My suggestion to her is: �get outside, walk, work out, drink plenty of water, practice deep breathing, it is up to you, what god has to do with it, you choose not to work out (you are your own devil,) so your body deteriorates. It is your choice, stop talking about it as if someone/something else does it to you.� She looks at me in a stumbled way, and says nothing; she knows that this is true. It doesn�t mean that she will give up on her beliefs. Perhaps, at some point, when she�ll get into this �help me god� routine, she will recall, that it is her choice. Be aware, but not after words, at that very moment, when you are feeling sorry for yourself, and looking for some outside reasons. Stop those thoughts, and remind yourself: �What do I do to take care of myself? Nothing, or little. None to blame, nothing to ask for.� This is very powerful practice, it gives you a sense of responsibility, which in turn might lead you to proper actions. Awareness! I can't emphasize this enough. When I talk to my friends about it, they seem to understand the concept, but their actions show, that they don't remember about it on a daily basis, only during our conversations. I also know people, who get obsessed with healthy eating, and/or working out, obsessed to the point, that they become neurotic. God, help us, please!

Dont bother changing Beliefs, become aware of them

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:22:34 GMT

"It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," said the Red Queen to Alice. Our brains and nervous systems constitute a belief-generating machine, a system that evolved to assure not truth, logic, and reason, but survival. To believe something needn't involve actively reflecting on it. Because of the survival value of beliefs, disconfirming evidence will rarely, if ever, be sufficient to change beliefs, even in "otherwise intelligent" people. Of the vast number of things ordinary adults believe, only a few can be at the fore of the mind at any single time. Our beliefs can be regarded as the blueprint by which we create our reality. They are an integral element of the design of this physical dimension we operate within. Our beliefs continuously influence our perception of the world and our perception of the world is an action of interpretation of our reality. Things that are learned early in life are the hardest to change or unlearn. Early conceptions of the world, even if lost to consciousness, remain a part of our memory and may influence our behaviors in some very interesting ways. A core belief has enough strength to so focus our perception that we perceive from the physical world only those events that correlate with it. The belief can reach into the most intimate areas of our lives and no evidence will be forthcoming to disprove it because we will only be able to perceive that which confirms it. Thus, it becomes invisible to us. The information that we receive is tremendous, but what we allow to come through is limited to what we believe in, that is what we have already experienced, and what make sense to us. You cannot see something that goes against your belief. The truly amazing part of all of this is not that so few beliefs change or that people can be so irrational, but that anyone's beliefs ever change at all. The idea of getting rid of your negative beliefs and replacing them with the beliefs that reinforce your behavior in a more productive pattern is the biggest contradiction. If you initially think of yourself as not a valid one, the one with the wrong beliefs, or wrong anything for that matter, you already are setting yourself up for a failure. Change requires a period of adjustment, a break in period before this new thing feels like your own. And who knows if it will be as good as the ones you've thrown away. Something new always implies a gamble, a risk. Who knows if the new purchase or a new behavior will ever feel as familiar as what has been given up. As illogical as it may seem on the surface, the ambivalent wish to change and to say the same is pivotal in our understanding of why self-defeating, pain producing behaviors persist over time. Understanding how disruptive and agonizing change can be helpful to us in understanding why real change takes such a long time. All your beliefs are not better or worse than any one else�s. As a matter of fact, most of them are the same. Becoming conscious of our mental process is what transforms our behavior and attitude, and gives us a realization to accept what is, which in turn creates an inner peace. Sometimes, the review process--the getting to know ourselves--holds some very real surprises as well as confrontation with some real contradictions that exist within our personality. Should you examine the beliefs... that seem so natural to you, that you do not question them, you may find surprises. For you cannot separate what you 'came with', and what you 'added unto' that. "It never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards as his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else" ... Vilayanur Ramachandram Ability to alter beliefs in response to data is a true gift; a unique, powerful, and precious ability. It is genuinely a "higher brain function" in that it goes against some of the most natural and fundamental biological urges. Awareness is a key! Detachment is a "higher brain function". Stop following, start thinking on your own! We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. Bill Vaughan

Belief Intensive (Page3)

San, 27 Jul 2008 21:22:34 GMT

As illogical as it may seem on the surface, the ambivalent wish to change and to say the same is pivotal in our understanding of why self-defeating, pain producing behaviors persist over time. Psychological change implies the revision of personal identity. It is as if we were about to remodel a house from the basement up. A person's identity is the foundation of his personality. To remodel that identity is to shake the personality to its core. To carry the remodeling metaphor a bit further, most of us would prefer some simple cosmetic changes rather than a remodeling that would be costly, lengthy, and very disruptive to our lives. Imagine how disruptive it must be to a person who has crystallized an identity as a "loser/victim" to begin to experience himself differently. This is a person whose deep self view portrays him as a "second class citizen." He is entitled only to the crumbs that life has to offer, if he is entitled to anything at all. Disappointment is the cornerstone of his life. While painful, always getting less than what he hoped for feels internally correct. He may complain about his lot in life, but for the most part, he has adjusted to this self-view and has learned how to live within its limits. Being a "loser" is a central construct to his personality organization. To change that view--no matter how desirable it might seem--would mean shaking every aspect of his personality that is built or dependent upon that central core view. While the long term goal of change would hopefully produce a modified personality with an increased capacity for self-fulfillment, the process leading to that goal would indeed be painful. Understanding how disruptive and agonizing change can be helpful to us in understanding why real change takes such a long time. It can also help us understand why people say "I have finally gotten what I have always wanted and I don't know what to do with it" or "Having my needs met really scares me. I don't know how to handle being treated like a person." Becoming a "winner" after a lifetime as a "loser" may look like a story book fantasy come true. In reality, however, it is the product of an agonizing labor over a long period of time. Perhaps it is human nature to become accustomed and comfortable with the well worn and the well known. Habit requires no special effort or special thought. It is there. Even when it is less than perfect it is more certain than some substitute might be. Change requires a period of adjustment, a break in period before this new thing feels like your own. And who knows if it will be as good as the ones you've thrown away. Something new always implies a gamble, a risk. Who knows if the new purchase or a new behavior will ever feel as familiar as what has been given up. Barry Greenwald, Ph.D.

Belief Intensive (Page3)

Tue, 25 Jul 2008 15:22:34 GMT

"The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty . . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavor -- property, outward success, and luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible." ALBERT EINSTEIN What is truth? What is Goodness? What is Beauty? If self is a conditioned entity of society, where does it get the sense of truth, goodness, or beauty? Can you come up with any thought that you consider yours? How can we separate the knowledge we get from outside and the knowledge that manifests from within? Is there any knowledge without the influence of outside? "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." LILY TOMLIN Mediocre world? This world is all we have. How do we know that it is mediocre? Do we know any other world that we can compare with? Or it is just a wishful thinking? "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend nectar requires sorest need." EMILY DICKINSON If there is a need, it has to be fulfilled, only by experiencing something to the fullest we find out if it is real or not. Intellectual understanding (conceptual knowledge) will never replace the actual experience. "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." RALPH WALDO EMERSON It must be easy to question something that has already been questioned by others. I wonder how many question something that has never been questioned. We are familiar with the following expression, you hear it from your friends or family, who want to cheer you up, when you feel down. "Appreciate what you have and feel better, think about all those people around the world who are in much worse condition than you are." It boggles my mind, why do I have to feel better on the account of those misfortunate. Knowing that there are so many people in distraught makes me sadder. Think about it, and next time you hear something similar, think again. Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed. CORITA KENT

Belief Intensive (Page3)

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:22:34 GMT

~*~ The mind is its own place, and of itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (Zen) ~*~

Belief Intensive (Page2)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:22:34 GMT

~*~ Core Beliefs ~*~ Belief and Everlasting Love ~*~

Belief Intensive

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:22:34 GMT

The Belief Engine ~*~ Osho on Belief ~*~ Belief Quotes ~*~ Belief and Skeptical Thinking ~*~ Belief and Brain ~*~ Belief and Neurons ~*~ Fundamental Beliefs ~*~

30 Days to Get in Touch with our Beliefs

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:04:34 GMT

Conscious Universe

Sat, 03 Jul 2008 13:04:34 GMT

You are going to be enlightened TOMORROW

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:04:34 GMT

What is the difference whether or not you find this freedom, this enlightenment or not. You will not be there to benefit from it. What possible good can this state do you? This state takes away EVERYTHING you have. That is why they call it "jivanmukti" -- living in liberation. It is neither happiness nor unhappiness. This you do not, cannot, want. What you want is everything, and that is not possible You can't experience anything except through thought. You can't experience your own body except through the help of thought. The sensory perceptions are there. Your thoughts give form and definition to the body, otherwise you have no way of experiencing it. The body does not exist except as a thought. There is one thought. Everything exists in relationship to that one thought. That thought is "me". Anything you experience based on thought is an illusion. You know. You want more knowledge so you can develop better techniques for reaching your goal. You know that there is no guarantee that more experience, more knowledge, more systems and more methods will help you reach your goal. Yet you persist; it is all you know how to do. Anything you want to be free from, for whatever reason, is the very thing that can free you. You are always dealing with a pair of opposites in anything; so being free of one is to be free from the other, its opposite. It is not possible. Within the framework of the opposites there is no freedom. That is why I always say, "You haven't got a chance ..." Likewise, the man who is not concerned with morality will not be interested in immorality. Thought has created all these divisions, making what you call experience possible. The man who has freed himself from all divisions in consciousness has no experiences; he does not have "loving" relationships, does not question anything, has no notions about being a self-realized man, and is not stuck on wanting to help somebody else. Your search for happiness is prolonging your unhappiness. Similarly, enlightenment has no independent existence of its own apart from your knowledge about it. There is no enlightenment at all. The idea of illumination is tied up with change, but there is nothing TO change. Change admits of time; change ALWAYS takes time. To change, to eliminate one thing and replace it with another, takes time. What you are now and what you ought to be are linked together by time. You are going to be enlightened TOMORROW! Seeing tomorrow involves only hope. Seeing today demands action. U.G.

Brain, Thought, Awareness in Consciousness

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:38:52 GMT

"The brain is not an organ that generates consciousness, but rather an instrument evolved to transmit and limit the processes of consciousness and of conscious attention so as to restrict them to those aspects of the material environment which at any moment are crucial for the terrestrial success of the individual. In that case such phenomena as telepathy and clairvoyance would be merely instances in which some of the limitations were removed." William James Awareness is a simple activity of the brain. It cannot be used to bring about any change, including a therapeutic one. We have superimposed a naming process over this natural physiological awareness, an awareness we share, incidentally, with the other animals. Awareness and the movement or tendency in you to bring about change in you are two different things entirely. That difference cannot be perceived by you, for there is no perception without the perceiver You are conscious, aware, only through thought. The other animals use thought--the dog, for example, can recognize its owner--in a simple manner. They recognize without using language. Humans have added to the structure of thought, making it much more complex. Thought is not yours or mine; it is our common inheritance. There is no such thing as your mind and my mind. There is only mind -- the totality of all that has been known, felt, and experienced by man, handed down from generation to generation. We are all thinking and functioning in that "thought sphere", just as we all share the same atmosphere for breathing. The thoughts are there to function and communicate in this world sanely and intelligently. U.G.

It is a Zenday!

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:57:05 GMT

Zen is intuitive understanding. Words and sentences have no fixed meaning, and logic is often out of picture. It is impossible to describe "what is" accurately, so I never take anyone or anything (including myself) as a final truth. There is no such a thing! Everything is fleeting. I attain bits and pieces of "myself", on my path to somewhere. ~ * ~ Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either; just leave me the hell alone. Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. Don't make a big fuss out of your life. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. It might be not the absolute truth, but who knows what is anyway. Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. "Your life will change. That's for sure. But it won't get any better and it won't get any worse. How can you compare now to the past? What do you know about the past? You don't have a clue! You have no idea at all what yesterday was really like, let alone last week or ten years ago. The future? Forget about it... We take the colors of mind to be much more than they are. But our thoughts are only thoughts. They go just so far and then stop. All of them, even the most urgent, the most violent, the most sexy, the most profound. They just go a little way and then peter out. Poof! And, just by the way here, when you see that everyone is you and you are everyone, you'll also come to understand that everyone in the world is just as dumb as you are. This will alleviate a lot of the stress you feel. It's hard to worry what other people might think when you realize their thoughts are just as dopey and meaningless as yours." Brad- "Colors of Mind"

Conformity

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:51:24 GMT

Social conformity does indeed alters the perception of reality. :-) That we have found the tendency to conformity in our society so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call White Black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct, wrote Asch.

Am I Awake?

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:37:57 GMT

What is luck? .. If we are ready, it happens .. just like in a fairytale ... Basically we always get what we need at every and each moment ... Luck is a domain of those who are not awake. Yep, sometimes we get lucky :-)

Moments of reality

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:06:16 GMT

What does it mean to be free? To be free, just come back. Back from where you are now. And you are in your thoughts. And when you are in them, you do not live, you dream. You are non-living when you think about the past or dream about the future. Neither the past nor the future exists at this moment. But you still are then and there rather than here and now. What happens now, at this moment, gives the joy of life, creativity, internal flight and freedom. Nothing, except you and present. Who you were yesterday or who youll be tomorrow is not the same who you are now. The present you - is unique. When you are here and now, you become I. You have no past, which you can deter. And you have no future, which may frighten you. Do you know when we are going to experience here and now fully and feel the bliss? When we die. Until that point - we do not live. But at that moment, before we go away, for one moment we feel a real, live life and understand how much we have lost. Until then, grab any moment you can and experience the fullness of life, there is nothing else, just those moments, the rest is a dream of our mind.

Waves of Consciousness

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:07:28 GMT

Ken Wilber "The Integral Vision at the Millennium"

Mo Matter What!

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:28:37 GMT

Destiny or Free Will (2)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:32:36 GMT

Destiny or Free Will

What is up to us?

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:58:07 GMT

If everything is predetermined, whats the point of living?

The reason we feel this way is because we think that predetermined is something that is known to us, but it is not.

We dont know what will happen next, we might guess and intuitively perceive the unfolding of our life, but we never know for sure. So to know that we have a destiny is not the same as to know our destiny.

There are some moments in our life that can be perceived as Free Will. Those moments when we rest in pure consciousness and get a glimpse of The Big Picture of Existence.

Free will is an absolute freedom pure consciousness that creates an indefinite set of choices and chooses them all at once.

Absolute freedom is achieved at the point where fear doesnt exist; action is ceased. Absolute freedom is not an action, it is being.

While in subjective reality fear is an opposite of free will and a necessary element for manifesting the duality (the physical world - gross), the movement from fear to free will is our, often not recognized, mission.

It is an ultimate, to many hidden, desire of a human being. This desire is a perpetual engine that drives the whole existence out of dark and gross to light and ether.

The desire is Consciousness! It is manifested in the subjective reality as a desire to be happy.

The Self is a single pointed, trapped in a gross, consciousness. I guess it is what we call a soul. All these names and definitions, that people use to describe Consciousness, just partially reflect the reality. We do the best we can.

Consciousness is not breakable, dividable, or describable; it is the same Consciousness in everyone and everything. Better yet, everything is in Consciousness.

So what is up to us? First we have to realize who we really are, not only conceptually, but also through living. When we do, we might grasp that it has been always up to us! (smile)

Somewhere is Everywhere.

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:04:27 GMT

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? - Alice

That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, - said the Cat.

I don't much care where - said Alice.

Then it doesn't matter which way you go, - said the Cat.

So long as I get SOMEWHERE, - Alice added as an explanation.

Oh, you're sure to do that, - said the Cat, - if you only walk long enough

L.Kerroll

Coincidence ?

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:57:41 GMT

If you type "beliefs hard to change" in search engines, this article of mine has been ranked as #1 on Ask.com; #3 on Google.com and Yahoo.com. What a strange coincidence!

I am not practicing Kabbalah or for that matter any religion

However, some of my ideas and thoughts, well presented in Kabbalah.

If I had to choose any teaching that would describe my perception of the existence, it would be Zen Buddhism.

Destiny --- Free Will

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:15:35 GMT

Great explanation on free will , cause and effect..destiny

I would like to add my own thoughts on changing/choosing the environment factor, which he suggests is the only cause that human can exercise to create a desired effect. I'll write about it next time.

The Universal Mind

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:30:51 GMT

Man seeks, thus man acts. How are actions manifested? What is a direction of those actions?

To investigate these questions is a purpose of philosophy. Philosophy is a science of life.

The desire to preserve life is a purpose of an intention. An intention, which is present in all existence and in man, is a consciousness of life.

The desire to enhance life is a purpose of a wish. A wish is a consciousness of ego.

The desire to experience all the above is the purpose of I. I is full consciousness, endless field of nothingness, where everything else happens.

To get in touch with I is to jump into nothingness and to witness everything without a judgment, which leads to realization of intentions (subconscious) and transformation of ego into a stronger entity.

All existence is nothing but consciousness. Think of consciousness as the universal mind.

A mind of a person thinks of different stuff, primarily about his own life: how to improve his life; what to do next; what is better for him; what goes on around him.

The next would be a mind of a couple. Yes, it has two brains, but the thinking is done through one mind, as if they think out loud, the same stuff that a person does, and make up their mind.

A family may consist of two or as many people as we can imagine. The thinking in here happens through many brains (in some cases just one brain :-)), that is a family mind.

Let the possibility of disagreement within a family not confuse you, since a persons mind consists of the same problems. We are all aware of our chaotic and procrastinating thinking. It takes a long time and struggling efforts to make up ones mind. So does a family's mind.

You can continue on and apply the same logic to a culture, a country and the world.

What defines a mind is the thinking (creative) process.

The universal mind thinks/creates for everything that exists. It has many names, such as God, Universe, All mighty and so on.

The evolution of a human is a process where a persons mind evolves into the universal mind.

How the Bleep Do We Create Our Reality

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:05:20 GMT

Creating Reality

To wish or to Intent?

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:44:00 GMT

When we wish for something, we become vulnerable. Intention, on the other hand, makes us stronger.

A Wish is a prisoner of purpose, believing that only the desired is authentic. An Intention knows that only present, here and now, is real.

A Wish is a beggar. An Intention is an owner.

A Wish is impulsive. An Intention acts in cold blood.

A Wish is a standalone castle of sand in anticipation of a high tide. An Intention is the high tide.

A Wish dies either way, being realized or not. An Intention draws energy from the process.

A Wish has only two points in the world: itself and the desired. For an Intention there is a whole world, because it is aware that every next moment is always born out of this moment, which is here and now.

A Wish is always on edge. An Intention is uninterrupted and confident.

Higher Consciousness

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:13:41 GMT

For centuries, philosophers have investigated consciousness.

There are many philosophical stances on consciousness, including: behaviorism, dualism, idealism, functionalism, reflexive monism, phenomenalism, phenomenology and intentionality, physicalism, emergentism, mysticism, personal identity etc.

Phenomenal consciousness (P-consciousness) is simply experience; it is moving, coloured forms, sounds, sensations, emotions and feelings with our bodies and responses at the center."

It is sometimes held that consciousness emerges from the complexity of brain processing.

I, personally, believe it is true.

Brain chemistry affects human consciousness. Sleeping drugs can bring the brain from the awake condition (conscious) to the sleep (unconscious).

Wake-up drugs reverse this process. Many other drugs have a consciousness-changing effect.

In my writing I often use the word Consciousness. Consciousness I refer to is Higher Consciousness as in being aware of our mental self.

The concept of higher consciousness rests on the belief that the average, ordinary human being is only partially conscious due to the influence of inferior impulses and preoccupations.

As a result, most humans are considered to be asleep (to reality) as they go about their daily business.

Higher Consciousness(Wikipedia)

Intention (continued..)

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:55:32 GMT

"Intention" is a function of subconsciousness. Wish is a function of consciousness.

Let us consider those functions in details. Subconsciousness is controlled by the nervous system, that is our behavior and mental activity occurs automatically.

The nervous system is in control most of the time.

Consciousness is a function of the higher brain, it is mental activity that requires an effort.

The higher brain is not sufficiently developed in modern man. We are not adapted to be in a conscious state for a long time.

"Events that occur in the mind or brain that are not within phenomenal or access consciousness are known as subconscious events."

Subconscious

"a higher-order account of consciousness proposes that a mental state is conscious when there is a higher-order state, either a thought or a perception, about it."

Encyclopedia of Philosophy

To read more about the nervous system--> The Nervous System

It's a Caturday! :)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:44:30 GMT

Intention

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:29:57 GMT

I want to be happy, wealthy, beloved, successful, smart, beautiful, and so on and so forth? Sounds familiar? We all want to have those fancies.

"Very few people capable of imperturbability express views that differ from those commonly accepted prejudices of their social environment. Most people can not even imagine such a view ". Albert Einstein

What do we want? To get something that we think we do not have at this moment.

So we set ourselves a goal; make a choice; decide where well go. But we dont go. Why? Because it is only a WISH.

How about when we want one thing and do another thing?

We wish to have a slim body, and go to the store and buy two pounds of ham and one gallon of ice cream

Yes, the slim body - is what we wish for, and to indulge in High-Fat Goodies - is our 'INTENTION.' Id even say it is our need.

Intention - to have in mind for a particular use.

It is logical. Whatever we cant do without is a necessity.

If the slim body becomes a necessity, we eat moderately and work out.

The following are the questions to contemplate on:

Why do we need what we need?

Why do we wish what we wish?

How to realize what is a wish and what is an intention?

Do we intent what we wish for or what we need?

How to exhaust our need?

Can we transform a wish in to intention?

Can we live without a wish?

How do I find Myself?

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:20:39 GMT

How do I find myself? The question relevant to many, regardless of age and social status. It is actual and at the same time, rhetorical. How do I find something that can never be lost?

In using the words "interest" and "desire" in relation to our work and fate in general, we forget that there is a dream and goal. It is a dream and goal that determine and lead life of many people. Search for oneself is a simple dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs.

Each person defines his own rainbow of life, for some it is gray, for others white and black. Life is not white or black, life is colorful. To see the rainbow of life, its beauty and attractiveness, you need to live.

Commit the deeds, make choices and take decisions to realize dreams, analyze and go further. This is harder than thinking about life, and seek answers to questions not in life itself, but in a hypothetical space: what would be if.

Your task is to begin to live today, now, to see and feel the widest possible spectrum of lifes paints. Running away from the bright colors and actions is living life out of fear.

In the process of life problems are solved; questions are answered; dreams are realized. Life is hard, for that reason it is very interesting and exciting. Try to see the beauty in yourself and the people who surround you.

Create the best rainbow you can, use all the colors!

The Ultimate Results of Meditation

Sat, 31 May 2008 17:05:22 GMT

Ultimate Results of Meditation

One Taste

Sat, 31 May 2008 15:06:21 GMT

"Indeed, the whole point is to be fully at home in the body and its desires, the mind and its ideas, the spirit and its light. To embrace them fully, evenly, simultaneously, since all are equally gestures of the One and Only Taste. To inhabit lust and watch it play; to enter ideas and follow their brilliance; to be swallowed by Spirit and awaken to a glory that time forgot to name. Body and mind and spirit, all contained, equally contained, in the ever-present awareness that grounds the entire display." "In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not you yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?"

Conscious Marriage

Sat, 31 May 2008 02:36:25 GMT

If you are a couple whose marriage is on the rocks, the first and foremost thing you want to do is to realize: Do you both desire to restore your marriage? Or it is an obsessed desire one of the spouses? If both of you have this idea, then the next question would be: What is the reason you are trying to save your marriage? You have to be honest with each other, no matter how hurtful or ridiculous it might sound. You have to share your thoughts. And Ill tell you what some of those thoughts could be: I wont find someone better. Ill be alone and I cant stand it. It is really hard to find someone now days. How am I going to survive by myself? What is going to happen to me? Who will look at me? I am old, fat, have children, etc., whatever applies to you. Even if I meet someone, eventually, Ill have the same problems. Whats the point? This is an honest path, where you acknowledge the true motives of each other. Honesty will bring in humbleness into your relationship and might give you a fresh start. Accept what it is, do not expect what has never been there!

Conscious Humor

Sat, 31 May 2008 02:19:02 GMT

I just got an email from a friend of mine: The subject: Next time you're having a bad day .. Now that's what I call 'attitude!' Kathi Attitude! There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. Well, she said, I think I'll braid my hair today. So she did and she had a wonderful day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that she had only two hairs on her head. Hmm, she said. I think I'll part my hair down the middle today. So she did and she had a grand day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that she had only one hair on her head. Well, she said, today I'm going to wear my hair in a pony tail. So she did and she had a very fun day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn't a single hair on her head. YAY! she exclaimed. I don't have to fix my hair today! Attitude is everything.

Secret behind 'The Secret'?

Wed, 28 May 2008 05:12:03 GMT

Secret behind "The Secret"? Wow... How many Secrets behind the "The Secret" do we have to decode in order to get what we want? Are we eternally gullible? There is no secret. Ignorance! That's what it is!

Sex-less Marriage?

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:53:41 GMT

On my way back home from work I was listening to the radio. There was an ad running for the website where people who are already in relationship can meet someone new, someone more exciting, which means sex. A few days ago, I stumbled upon a sex-less marriage forum; people were discussing the problems they are having in marriage because sex is out of their relationship, dead. What about the swingers - couples that engage in sexual relationships with other couples? Sex is being separated from marriage as we speak. :-) For many, that sounds weird and unacceptable, but so were minority and womens rights just 50 years ago. If you told anyone at that time that in the near future we could have a black president or a woman president, they would laugh at you and consider you nuts.

Fake it until you make it!

Mon, 26 May 2008 21:36:46 GMT

The last century gave birth to many spiritual movements, such as the New Age movement. Essentially they are alike; The Power of Positive Thinking, Creative Visualization, Affirmations, Manifestation, etc. Those teachings are full of contradictions; for example, lets discuss Manifest Abundance. They tell us that we can get anything we desire, but the main condition is we have to give up the desire itself, which basically means we should acquire a desire-less attitude. That doesn't make any sense; either we desire or we do not?! The majority of humans are evolving through repetition, that is, learning new ways of living and behaving by means of new teachings. Unless we are guaranteed to benefit from the teaching, we are not interested in the process itself. Among those benefits are money, success, abundance, happy marriages, or in one word - heaven. (smile) We have an image of heaven created by our limited mind, based on the old beliefs. We hold beliefs that were adopted at some point of evolution, where they served their timely value. We follow the instructions (positive thinking, visualization, affirmation, etc.), which, by all means, are great tools to train our mind, to become aware of our mechanical thinking and behaving, the promised materialistic abundance is just a bait, skillfully offered to us by Nature / the Universe. This is the only way to involve humans in evolutionary process, at least to most of us. This process is merely a translation. Which means, weve always been told what to do, in order to move on and progress. Few are transforming! Those who do, show us the WAY! Fake it until you make it! Let's fake it consciously. In other words, be aware of what, how, and why we do, whatever it is that we do. (smile) Radical transformative spirituality is extremely rare, anywhere in history, and anywhere in the world Ken Wilber Advanced reader follow the link to read his article: "A Spirituality that Transforms"

Play billiards in style (smile)

Sun, 25 May 2008 11:47:41 GMT

Email Glitch

Sun, 25 May 2008 11:41:51 GMT

I've had a problem receiving email. I found out that some people had tried to contact me, but it never went to my mailbox. I apologize for this incident. My email account is working fine now.

Bad Grammar! Big Bloggers?

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:04:31 GMT

The discussion on this forum made me feel really good :-) I am not the only one. Just kidding. Maybe not. Anyway. "Can you suck at grammer and have a successful blog?" - Shoemoney problog Read an article.(the arguments)

Are you aware of your beliefs?

Wed, 21 May 2008 06:32:49 GMT

I have a coworker that I like a lot, despite the fact that she is not interested in any of the stuff that I am. You guessed it right, consciousness and all the other words that are strongly attached to it. (smile) As someone who sympathizes with me, shes been giving me advice on some dos and donts at work. I have a rebellious nature, thus, its been irritating me to some extent, even though I perfectly understand that the underlying intention behind those words is good. If something keeps bugging me, it means I have a belief that creates this reaction to something I cant put my finger on. I know it is not her, but every time she would give me a suggestion, she would trigger my unknown belief. I am aware that I have many beliefs hidden from my immediate comprehension, and I work on one belief at a time (long time). I know that I am ready to dig it up, bring it out, to ponder it, and witness it, when I become self-conscious of my reaction. Today, I had that aha moment and I realized what exactly was happening. Every time my coworker advises on something, she would, almost definitely, finish it with the phrase: Be Careful. You see, I have this belief, that I am who I am, and I dont need to create a mask for public places. Be Careful strongly suggested to me that I was doing something wrong, that my behavior was not appropriate. She perceives me as someone who is not being wise, thus, not careful. She just stopped by my cubicle and passed on some news, better yet, a bit of gossip, and at the end she told me, Aha You know already! "BE CAREFUL! I was quietly laughing to myself. Those words didnt have the same power over me!

Stages of Realization

Tue, 20 May 2008 02:58:58 GMT

I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost ---- I am helpless ---- it isnt my fault. . . . . It takes forever to find a way out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I dont see it. I fall in again. I cant believe I am in the same place ---- but it isnt my fault. . . . It still takes a long time to get out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in . . . . It is a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. I walk down another street. Poem in Five Chapters by Portia Nelson

How we are being conditioned

Sun, 18 May 2008 19:43:28 GMT

Our beliefs have been conditioned over the centuries. We've, certainly, heard about this many times. However, we don't fully realize it. The following video is a thought-provoking. "If you genuinely believe that what you believe is true (of course, we all do), then you will not be looking any deeper into the issue."

Evolution of Man

Sun, 18 May 2008 17:30:42 GMT

"Life evolves out of Matter, Mind out of Life, because they are already there: Matter is a form of veiled Life, Life a form of veiled Mind. May not Mind be a form and veil of a higher power, the Spirit, which would be supramental in its nature? Man's highest aspiration would then only indicate the gradual unveiling of the Spirit within, the preparation of a higher life upon earth." "It is wrong to demand that the individual subordinate himself to the collectivity or merge in it, because it is by its most advanced individuals that the collectivity progresses; and they can really advance only if they are free. But it is true that as individual advances spiritually, he finds himself more and more united with the collectivity and All." "Man's highest aspiration - his seeking for perfection, his longing for freedom and mastery, his search after pure truth and unmixed delight - is in flagrant contradiction with the present existence and normal experience." "Such contradiction is part of Nature's general method; it is a sign she is working towards a greater harmony. The reconciliation is achieved by an evolutionary progress" "At each step one receives an intimation of what the following step will be" "The nature of the next step is indicated by the deep aspirations awakening in the human race" "Without an inner change man can no longer cope with the gigantic development of the outer life" The Future Evolution of Man by Sri Aurobindo

Think Globally

Sat, 17 May 2008 16:44:21 GMT

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! Dr. Seuss

Conscious Humor

Sat, 17 May 2008 06:06:22 GMT

Live here and now! How? My mind constantly takes me somewhere else. It seems that the mind doesn't get along with "here and now." If I am lucky to find myself here and now, I don't know what to do, I am lost, I feel uncomfortable, I am scared, and I am bored. My mind goes into survival mode: thinking! Gently bring yourself back to here and now! How? I keep forgetting, my mind is always occupied, with problems that I might have tomorrow, or with past events, just to make sure I didn't miss anything and I did everything right. Try harder! You have to be aware of your thoughts. How? Every single time I try to be aware of my thoughts, the only thought I am aware of, at that moment, is that I have to be aware. You should stop asking so many questions. Don't think. Don't think? How? Listen to something you don't understand Stay with it, don't forget to breathe (smile)

What the bleep are we talking about?

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:49:52 GMT

Love Yourself, Be Conscious, Manifest, Think Positive. These are the buzzwords, nowdays. Have you asked yourself what exactly those words mean to you? Without being affected by any readings? (smile) The Internet is overwhelmed with an abundance of sites that sell all kind of services. They tell you what to do, 12 steps, 20 steps, etc. Today, we can find instruction on anything. The problem is no one knows how to persuade us follow those steps! There are few authentic writings that explore this subject. Notice, I didnt say answer,but rather, explore! There is no unique answer for everyone. Youll have to come up with your own answer. Are you ready for it? It has been said that at this time of evolution, approximately 20 of people are awake.

Just a note

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:47:34 GMT

I love discovering and reading articles on the Internet. Some of them I've been sharing with you on my website. I am not affiliated with these sites in any way!

Happiness

Sat, 10 May 2008 19:06:55 GMT

We are searching for an ultimate happiness. We want to feel good! The search for something different than what we have at the moment is inevitable. It is the life energy within that stirs up and moves us to a different state of being. Life is a change! Life is an energy! Energy movement is always up and down. Up is the moment of happiness, down is the opposite. Those up moments are accepted totally by us. Down times are rejected, repressed, and pushed away. Have you noticed how we go experience the happy moment? It goes by so quickly! Thats why we probably call it just a moment. What if we accept a down time and stay with it, experience it totally? Will it become a moment? Accepting means not attaching any mental description to that feeling of sadness, trying to explain why you feel this way. The attempt to explain it creates resistance, as if this feeling is not valid. Just feel it! Stay with it. It will be a "moment!" Happiness is not a feeling, it is a state of mind!

Accelerating Change

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:50:17 GMT

The Big Bang or whatever it was, happened ten billion years ago (give or take a couple of billion years) The evolution of simple lifeforms began four billion years ago. Multicellular life appeared a billion or so years ago. The evolution of complex nervous systems, made possible by the emergence of vertebrates, began several hundred million years ago. Mammals appeared tens of millions of years ago.The genus Homo first stood on the planet a couple of million years ago. Homo sapiens, appeared several huhdred thousand years ago. The shift to Homo sapiens sapiens that was triggered by the emergence of language and tool use, and which resulted in the Agricultural Revolution, began tens of thousands of years ago. Civilization -- the movement into towns and cities -- started several thousand years ago.The Industrial Revolution began a few centuries ago. And Information Revolution is but a few decades old. Each new development has occurred in a fraction the time of the previous one -- somewhere between a quarter and a tenth the time which may suggest faster and more profound change in the future.! Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change! Peter Russell

Positive Thinking (part 3)

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:10:27 GMT

Let me begin by saying that there is no positive or negative energy. All energy is neutral until WE personalize it. It is this personalization process that gives it a negative or positive image. To experience life to the fullest we have to accept both images. It's the Positive and Negative Energy that breathe life into, or take it away from, the physical universe. To realize the above is to acquire the POSITIVE FRAME OF MIND! Every battery has two poles or terminals -- one marked positive (+) the other negative (-). The negative pole or terminal has more electrons than it needs, and the positive pole has a lack of electrons. When you connect the two poles of a battery with a wire, a current made up of electrons moves through it so the electrons can move from the negative terminal to the positive terminal. Positive thinking means seeing the world as a perfect place, being able to freely express any emotion, being flexible (no fixations of any kind, even positive), flowing.

Changes

Wed, 07 May 2008 03:54:26 GMT

I had to change the heading. After two weeks of blogging, I realized that relationships are just a part of what I'd like to write about.

Positive Thinking (part 2)

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:24:38 GMT

What is positive thinking? Is it having optimistic, constructive, upbeat thoughts? How often? All the time? Sometimes? Everything in the physical world is dual and has its opposite polarity. The amount of "negative" stuff is exactly the same as the amount of "positive" stuff. However, they often are spread in time and space and therefore appear as separate. You've probably heard about the Karma concept. This is it: For every positive" aspect, we have to experience "negative" as well. The obvious example would be cold and hot water. If you stay in cold water long enough, it is not cold anymore. You need to change that state to the opposite one in order to experience it once again. Ponder this! Understanding how the physical world is being manifested day to day, hour to hour, and minute to minute will change your attitude toward life. This change will reflect your thinking process. You will understand, accept and allow.LOVE! Change from inside out transforms. Expand your Consciousness!

Positive thinking

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:06:16 GMT

I have friends who talk about "positive thinking,"affirmations," but they go back to thinking and behaving the only way they "know" - nothing changes. If we don't expand our consciousness so we can see ourselves, remember,those few minutes of "positive thinking" will not change anything. We have no idea how automatic we are! The first step is to see and realize it. And let me tell you, this is not achievable over night. You can start with the following practice: mark the start time and try to remember yourself by concentrating on your breathing and your being in that moment. You'll not be able to do this for more than a minute. Your nervous system will take you right back to an "established" routine.The Nervous system is in control! Your mind will find all kind of excuses such as "I just don't have patience, or I don't want to do this." Of course, we don't want to accept that we are not in control!

Sweet Monday :-)

Tue, 06 May 2008 02:00:05 GMT

I remember having chills every Sunday night. "Tomorrow is Monday!" It would spoil my Sunday night, because I couldn't think about anything else. Monday would occuppy my mind. It was all unconscious ,of course. When I started asking myself: "Why do I feel this way?" Sure enough, I got an answer: 'Well, everyone feels this way about Monday, they talk about it all the time." Then I thought: Is it possible to change the way I feel about it? I could try to change my thinking. So I did! I'll elaborate on this in one of my articles.

Friday!

Sat, 03 May 2008 06:06:04 GMT

You see what you expect, and you expect what you invite. Your perception is the result of your invitation, coming to you as you sent for it. Whose manifestations would you see? Of whose presence would you be convinced? For you believe in what you manifest, and as you look out so will you see in. Two ways of looking at the world are in your mind, and your perception will reflect the guidance you have chosen. A Course in Miracles