
Your Imagination
Do you let your imagination run wild and create
worse-case scenarios?
Imagining the worst strengthens the possibility
of creating the very situation you do not want.
Instead, why not increase the possibility of
creating the best!
Harness your imagination and create best-case
scenarios.
Quality Transformation
Quality change is the capacity to transform
negative situations, or circumstances, into
something beneficial for one's self and others.
'Quality transformers' are people who can turn
walls of resistance into bridges of
understanding and keep crossing them, who can
change any obstacle into a stepping stone of
success and can reverse the troubling,
paralyzing dragon of doubt and insecurity into
radiant self-confidence, dissolving the thought
impossible from the mind.
Such
people work with the undercurrents of life that
determine the external reality, of human
interaction. These undercurrents are their
attitudes, thoughts and feelings. If these
undercurrents are filled with resentment, anger
and selfishness, then, despite being polite and
cooperative externally with people,
relationships will be subject to damage and
deterioration. On the other hand, when the
undercurrent is filled with trust and sincerity,
then the quality of life and relationships is
enhanced. The fundamental source of quality is
the existence of a positive undercurrent. It is
not a matter of our words, actions or role
(which is the external reality), but rather the
foundation, the undercurrent i.e. the thoughts
and the activity of the mind.
Meditation enables the mind to tune in to that
undercurrent of thoughts, feelings, and
attitudes, which is the invisible creator of our
human reality. The nourishing power of silence,
attained through meditation and spiritual
knowledge, gives us the means to bring about
quality transformation (change) in this
undercurrent. Such change enhances our
self-confidence and the capacity to creatively
and positively relate to life as it is and face
situations easily.
Soul Sustenance
The Power to Co-operate
In India, there is a saying that when everyone
gave a finger of co-operation, the mountain of
sorrow was lifted. If we look with open eyes at
the world of today, and at current social,
financial and environmental trends, it's clear
that there is widespread suffering and sorrow,
that it is likely to get worse, and that to
remove this sorrow will be a task like lifting a
mountain. Meditation ignites a conviction inside
us that the task will be done. Although we have
such different backgrounds, cultures,
personalities, and so on; meditation shapes our
personalities in such a way that it becomes easy
for us to share our resources, work together,
and give our own finger of co-operation in the
task.
The way meditation achieves this is interesting.
Look at the other side - at what prevents
co-operation: it is ego, where I am in a state
of self glorification, hungry for personal
praise or fame, and not concerned about the
wellbeing of the team. In ego, I think I am the
only one who knows, the one who is right. Ego
kills co-operation. Ego is closely connected to
body consciousness. An enormous 'I and my'
factor comes in when I think of myself as this
body, and lose sight of the soul. My race, my
color, my gender, my physical appearance, my
education, my family, my job, my position, my
possessions - all these become part of the
build-up of ego. Working with others with
co-operation, who may at any moment challenge my
ego with their own different agendas and needs,
then becomes stressful.
(To be continued tomorrow ....)
Message for the day
The power of transformation brings all
attainments.
Expression:
When there is the ability to transform negative
into positive, and waste into useful in a second
there is the ability to be useful for the self
and others. There would not be just complaints
against the situation, but the best would be
made out of all situations and move on to the
aim set out.
Experience:
When I am able to use the power of
transformation to finish negative and waste, I
am able to experience being free from obstacles.
So I am able to experience contentment under all
circumstances for having made the best use of
everything available.
Managing Thoughts
A great number of us wish we weren't forgetful
or careless. But interestingly enough, the mind
generally forgets normal, routine things but
can't get away from contemplating on the past or
future (could be my own or others). It's not
surprising that my mind finds it hard to
remember what I need for today, when it's trying
to manage the traffic jam of thoughts pertaining
to yesterday and tomorrow. We could argue that
the past has many good things to adopt or that
we need to plan for the future, but along with
that I end up encouraging the past or future to
weigh me down. Let me guard my thoughts
carefully and not allow any leakage of the mind
power.