12.04.2014

Christ the Redeemer-Rio
de Janeiro , Brazil
Higher Than the Sky
Keep wearing virtues as
your ornaments. Keep loving others. Keep giving regard.
You have to go beyond the stars. Keep thoughts higher
than the sky, and abundance of patience like the earth.
Keep spiritual love in your eyes.
Keeping The Watchman
Of Attention Alert
All the religions and spiritual
groups place a lot of importance on the virtue of
discipline. Without discipline you do not manage to
transform negative habits and you do not create a new
state of awareness where the self is nourished through
the experience of spirituality. Every day you eat, you
brush your teeth, bathe, drink water and breathe, and
all of this you do not consider a discipline; you have
adopted them as something natural in order for your body
to continue working. On a spiritual level you also need
to nourish yourself and to have a discipline that, with
practice, a time comes when it becomes natural because
you incorporate it into your life. In the process of
change you need to discipline yourself in order not to
let old habits come to the forefront. Until you have
burnt them and they have died, you should keep the
watchman of attention alert in order to maintain your
self-control, given that each time you use a negative
habit in action, you strengthen it. When you do not use
it, you allow it to die.
The path of the spiritual traveler is therefore one of
waking (awareness of self as soul) and sleeping (under
the illusion that we are our body), waking and sleeping.
We tend to fluctuate between the two (like dawn and
dusk) until we find stability in soul-consciousness.
This is why it is important to awaken and stay awake,
and why it's important to give our mind and intellect
good spiritual food (knowledge) and exercise
(meditation) every day to keep them fresh and alert.
Being conscious of the soul, acting from that
consciousness, the scars (habits and tendencies) left by
past actions based on illusions of bodily awareness are
healed. Discipline is necessary for growth and personal
transformation if you want to obtain satisfying and
permanent results. If not, the old habits continue to
rule in your life. The evidence that our discipline in
the practice of meditation is working is mental
lightness and an increasing easiness in our interactions
with others.
Soul Sustenance
How Does The Mind Work?
We can compare the mind with a screen, where thoughts,
images, feelings and associations are constantly
appearing. Thoughts manifest themselves in the mind in
the same way as images on a film are projected onto the
cinema screen.
The mind often interprets negation as affirmation.
Therefore, when we tell you not to think about
something, it is as if we were saying, "Think about
this" and these thoughts are produced with even more
force in the mind. Therefore transforming negative
habits and personality traits becomes a struggle. The
most effective way of fighting is to ignore these
unwanted thoughts, but we should then immediately focus
our mind in another direction, thinking about something
positive. Thus useless or negative thoughts have no
space to grow in our mind. Thinking positively is not a
battle against negativity but by imbibing spiritual
knowledge, we transform the negative into positive.
We can compare the mind with a naughty child who is
playing with a dangerous object: if you take it away
from them they will cry until they get it back again.
Perhaps a more effective method would be to offer them
something that would be of more interest to them and in
this way, by having a new inoffensive toy in their
hands, they will leave the dangerous object alone.
Message for the day
Sweetness is the
ability to see the good in all things.
Projection:
Deep within each and every situation
is something good. It only takes a little patience to
look within and find it. When we are able to understand
the secret behind what is happening, it automatically
brings sweetness in our life
Solution:
Whatever happens throughout the day, we should be able to
see the good in it. Even if we are not able to discover
something good at that moment, we should maintain the
faith that whatever happens is for the best.
Humility
Your humility enables
people to realize their mistakes and correct themselves.
Real humility results in so much power of truth that you
don't need to say anything at all in words. The very
power of your inner state of being will make the other
person realize the error of their ways. When you are
giving directions or corrections to someone, check your
own attitude, remind yourself of the humility within and
then say whatever you have to say. With humility your
words will be for their benefit and this will enable
them to learn.