No Blame
By having an attitude free from blaming others, good
wishes are received from everyone.
Fortune
There are usually a lot of negative feelings experienced
when something goes wrong. At that time there is no
perception of the positive aspects of life. Then we tend
to feel sorry for ourselves and remember only the
negative things. Then there is a tendency to think that
we are not so fortunate. Even in the most difficult
times we need to make conscious effort to see the
positive aspects in our life. We need to understand that
circumstances will come and go but our fortune will
remain unbroken. This awareness will keep us happy and
make us work harder in the worst conditions.
Meditation And Health
Each original quality of the self or soul is specially
required for nourishing and empowering one human body
system. The quality of peace is responsible for taking
care of the respiratory system, joy for the
gastrointestinal system, love for the circulatory
system, bliss for the endocrine system, knowledge for
the brain and nervous system, purity for the immune
system and the five senses and power for the muscular
and skeletal systems.
Each one of us has at least one body system, which is
most prone to disease. When our mind is under the
influence of stressful emotions, there is a decrease in
the flow, from the soul to this body system, of that
quality which is required by it for its nourishment,
which leads to the development of disease in this system
over a period of time e.g. when an individual with a
weak respiratory system is in a negative state of mind,
there is a decrease in the flow of the quality of peace
to the respiratory system which in turn can lead to a
disorder like asthma.
Soul Sustenance
Reflection
Reflection (thinking deeply) is a necessary step in
digesting knowledge.
Reflection is an exercise of the mind and intellect
that goes into the depths of understanding an idea, or
realization, or point of knowledge with the aim of
practicing it in daily life.
Values in my life are a sign that knowledge has been
digested; without this, knowledge simply remains a
beautiful aspect, appreciated, interesting information
in my intellect but without the ability to give me
strength because it is still external; it has not been
internalized.
All quality action (quality action is that action
which is truly appropriate to person, circumstance and
the need of the moment), all newness of perception
(understanding), all new insights, or vision, require a
space for silent reflection as a preliminary step.
Normally, we are lost in the business of action, its
routine and ritual that make our life so mechanical and
hence dull and boring, or demanding and hectic.
A mind and intellect that do not give time and attention
to reflective silence (meditation) become lazy, though
externally there is lots of activity for hours and
hours. No new heights are reached because there is no
depth of awareness in what we are doing, no reflection
on purpose. As a result, we get trapped by routine.
(To be continued tomorrow ....)
Message for the day
Where there is honesty there is flexibility.
Projection:
When someone challenges the truth of what we are saying
we generally tend to argue and prove our point in order
to prove ourselves right. When we argue in this way, it
only shows our own stubbornness and doesn't help in any
way to reveal the truth. Where silence doesn't help in
revealing the truth, argument never will because the
other person is not in a position to listen to us at
that moment.
Solution:
We need to realize the fact that when the other person
is not able to recognize the truth, our arguing will not
help in any way. When the truth is with us we need not
argue but we only need to wait for the right opportunity
to talk what we have to say. When we try to talk when
the other person is not in a position to listen to us,
it only reveals our lack of flexibility.