29.05.2015

Bridge of Immortals, Huangshan, China
Determination and
Patience
Determination is the strength that will enable
you to pass the barrier of useless thoughts in
order to create positive thoughts and to be
successful in whatever you wish. It comes from
within and its partner is patience. Patience
teaches you not to push but rather to wait and
appreciate the game of life instead, knowing
that nothing remains the same, and everything
will change at some point.
Cooperation
When each one
is working towards a common task, cooperation
becomes
easy. To get others' cooperation we need to
share the task and the
information regarding the task with others. When
we communicate our
motives using easy and simple language, everyone
can understand and
feel a part of the whole and they would
naturally contribute their
best. Any new task that we take up we need to
make sure we inform all
the details to everyone related to the task.
Even the minutest details
when communicated to others, helps in creating a
priority in them to
give their best to the task.
Frozen Perceptions
Like water, which over a period of time freezes
and takes the form of frozen ice cubes, when
kept in an ice tray; perceptions of different
things, people and events, inside our
consciousness, which come onto the surface of
our consciousness regularly i.e. we shape our
thoughts, words and actions based on them,
regularly, take the form of rigid perceptions
over a period of time. These rigid or
'frozen perceptions', which sometimes never
liquefy in our entire lifetime, are commonly
called our beliefs, which can stick in our
consciousness like ice cubes and be difficult to
uproot at times. One of the greatest harms
that holding to a set of beliefs does is, that
it doesn't let us see from other peoples' point
of view.
Let's say two people look at the same painting
from two different points in a room. One
describes what she sees and how the painting
looks to her. Then the other describes how the
painting looks to him. Both perceptions are
bound to be different to some extent. They are
different because they look from different
angles, different points (places) of viewing
in the same room. So who has the right view?
Neither. But what both of them see is right from
their point of view. Another e.g. is, there is
Mrs. A at my workplace, whom over a period of
time, I have been seeing from a certain point
of view and have started perceiving to be
inefficient. Bringing this perception into my
consciousness repeatedly has frozen this
perception inside my consciousness and it has
taken the form of a belief, which may be
incorrect or correct, partially or completely.
Now even if three different people who have all
seen Mrs. A from three different points of
view i.e. in three different set of
circumstances, and have seen three different
shades of the same virtue i.e. efficiency in
her; come and share their different, but all
positive and right perceptions with me,
depending on their respective circumstantial
view, I will not agree with them and not respect
their perception because a person with unfrozen
perceptions would at least give a hearing to
others' perceptions, but someone with frozen
perceptions, i.e. with fixed beliefs, is not
able to that and is not able to empathize with
or see from others' point of view.
Soul Sustenance
Improving
The Quality of Different Areas of My Karmas
(Part 3)
Karmas performed for leisure or
entertainment
When someone says they don't have time for
meditation or for their spiritual development,
it generally reflects an unwillingness to face
the self rather than an actual lack of time. The
fact that average T.V. viewing time in many
countries runs to more than 15 hours a week
tells its own story. To the extent that I value
my time, I value my life and make myself
valuable. Valuing my time, energy and money
is very much a part of the whole karmic story of
give and take: what they are used for, how well
they are used, whether they are wasted and so
on. Difficulties with time, one's own bodily
energy and finances are the fruits of past
indifference or wastage of these resources
(either in this birth or previous births). The
world financial crisis is the karmic sum total
of all such individual difficulties. Am I using
all that I have in a worthwhile way? Am I just
wasting it or am I using it for benefit for
myself and for others? These questions, answered
correctly, often spell the difference between
success and failure.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message
for the day
Negative
situations can be transformed into positive with
the power of stability.
Expression:
When faced with a negative
situation, usually the mind gets affected. Lot
of questions arise in the mind that don't allow
me to be stable at that time. Because of the
thoughts in my mind, Although it is in my hands
to work at transforming the situation I don't
make use of this opportunity but only end up
adding to the negativity.
Experience:
In a negative situation, it
is necessary for me to maintain my own inner
stability. I need to free myself from wasteful
thoughts. Then the negativity in the situation
will finish, first in my mind and then in the
situation itself. My own internal stability will
help in finishing the influence of the external
situation.