
Cherry Blossoms in Bloom, Yokohama
Real Gentleness
Real Gentleness is a
power that sees, understands, but never
interferes. A branch of a tree touches the
earth without taking root. Never to take root
in someone else's mind but to help, that's
gentleness.
Deep Healing
The deepest wounds
we all carry are locked in our subconscious (out
of
our awareness). Deep memories and subtle
impressions, from unfinished
experience, rooted in the past. The pain from
those wounds comes to
revisit, to block and paralyse us in the moment
called now. We all
know it comes without warning - "Why am I
feeling this way, I didn't
mean to do that, I don't know what made me say
that." Healing does not
mean finding and treating every single inner
scar which send it
message to haunt us. It means going even deeper,
past those wounds,
beyond those distant memories and recording of
unfinished business, to
the core of our self, to the heart of our
spirit, where we find the
light and warmth of our own core qualities of
love and peace. They are
eternally present within us they are what we
need to heal all our
inner wounds. That's why this kind of deep
healing is called
spirituality and not therapy.
The Difference
Between Human Souls And The Supreme Soul (God) -
cont.
Human Souls: They lose their power and
become weak.
Supreme Soul: God is the constant and
external source of all spiritual power for all
human souls.
Human Souls: They are brothers.
Supreme Soul: God is the Father and
Mother.
Human Souls: They come into greed, lust
and attachment.
Supreme Soul: God is bondage-less (free),
the liberator of all, including the sages,
saints, holy teachers and gurus. He doesn't
succumb to the vices.
Human Souls: They become worshippers.
Supreme Soul: God is ever worthy of being
worshipped.
Human Souls: They have desires based on
bodily needs, name and fame.
Supreme Soul: God is completely
desireless and selfless.
(To be continued tomorrow ....)
Soul Sustenance
Forgive
To Forget
A key principle to remain light and stable in
relationships is – forgive and forget -
it’s a well-known principle – one that we
sometimes find difficult to practice. It can be
modified to forgive to forget. Sometimes we
spend many years with so much bitterness inside
us for a particular person, with an inner
violence of wanting to make the other pay
(emotions of revenge), the one who has
supposedly hurt you. If you don’t strike back
immediately, you at least want to keep this
guilt card in your pocket, to be pulled out
at a later date: “Oh yes, well what about the
time when you….” We keep this bitterness inside
us because we haven't forgiven. It does not
resolve the situation; the only thing it does is
increase our pain, makes us heavy and does not
let us remain in peace. So the key is
that if we do not forgive, we cannot forget.
When someone has offended or insulted us, the
last thing we want to do is to let it go. And
yet, if our desire is to have a healthy, lasting
relationship, that is exactly what we’ve got to
do.
Sometimes, when it is a question of a broken
relationship, it is not only a matter of
forgiving the other, but of forgiving yourself
for having allowed yourself to enter that
experience. It was you that took the step to
allow that experience to be entered into. If you
hadn't taken that step, you wouldn't have had
that experience. You accepted that challenge,
that relationship, and what might happen in it –
you were aware of the possibilities when you
entered in the relationship. So not only do
you have to learn to forgive the other, but also
to forgive yourself in such situations. Only
then will you be able to forget.
Message for the
day
Contentment makes
one virtuous.
Expression:
The one who is content is
free from selfishness, yet is concerned about
filling the self with inner treasures. Such a
person finds his stock of treasures always full
and overflowing. So his thoughts, words and
actions are those that are constantly bringing
benefit to those around.
Experience:
When I am always content, I
always experience myself to be victorious. I am
easily able to learn from all situations and use
all my experiences to move forward. Also I
become a giver. I thus get the love and good
wishes of those around me and am also able to
experience constant progress.