30.06.2015

Artist: Julius von
Klever (31
January 1850 – 24 December 1924) Walking on
Water
Eye of the
Storm
A
wise sea captain caught in a tropical storm
knows that if he holds his vessel on the
periphery it will get hurled from one side to
the other. If he can reach the eye of the storm,
he will enter a place of stillness. The storm
will then subside and the ship can continue its
journey. Similarly, when everything around me is
changing in a very intense way, the best place
for me to seek shelter and refuge is not on the
outside, but deep within the self, where I can
get in touch with my own inner being, find
strength and stability, then come out and do
whatever it is I need to.
Detachment
What do we do when
friends and loved ones come to us for, and
expect emotional support from us? Spirituality
teaches us the right technique of providing
emotional support – the technique of detached
involvement, a technique of not being overawed,
of not being affected ourselves by the emotions
of others. If a friend, colleague or any loved
one is upset and we also get upset (because we
love them – that’s what we normally say), we
cannot provide them the necessary support or the
assistance to see why they are reacting
emotionally and how they might change the nature
of their emotions by themselves. True love for
someone would mean that I am able to provide
them that. While being concerned is fine, but by
becoming upset, seeing them upset simply
aggravates the situation and adds fuel to their
fire.
By remaining detached, we can be more effective
in our ability to care, listen and help them
think clearly about the situation, they find
themselves in. Only if we are stable, and that
can happen only when we are detached, will we be
able to provide them stability. We can encourage
and empower them to change their negative
reaction to a more positive response, and
thereby generate a healthier energy. If we
become over-involved in someone else's problems,
there is a risk that our own judgment will be
affected negatively. This is why making
decisions and choices under the influence of
your own and others' emotions is normally
ineffective.
Different
Thought Types
By understanding each one of the thoughts that
the mind creates we can keep the beneficial
thoughts and discard those which are useless or
harmful. Today we explain:
Necessary Thoughts
Necessary thoughts are those relating to your
daily routine, such as, * What am I going to
have for dinner? * What time am I picking up the
children from school? * What is the number of my
bank account? * What have I got to do today?
They are also thoughts connected with your
profession or job. These necessary thoughts
related to your daily life come into your mind
according to your responsibilities and needs at
a more physical, material and professional
level.
When these thoughts are repeated over and over
again, they become unnecessary or waste
thoughts.
(To be continued tomorrow .....)
Soul Sustenance
Reaching
the Destination of Peace on Time (Part 2)
In yesterday’s message, we had mentioned the
main type of distractions that you might face in
your journey to the destination of peace. The
secret of not getting affected by each of these
distractions is very simple –do not interact
with any of them on a subtle level by giving
them your mental energy of attention, but avoid
them, detach yourself from them, just observe
them and let them go, remaining completely
focused on reaching your destination.
Imagine you are driving to your office on the
highway and you are very late. There are a large
number of different vehicles which you pass,
either travelling in the same direction as you
are or coming at you from the opposite side. You
are even familiar with a lot of these people
sitting inside these vehicles, because you see
them every day, but you don’t even spare a
second to glance at them because if you did you
would lose your focus and be delayed, you would
fail to reach your destination, your office in
this case, on time. Meditation is exactly like
this. Just as you cannot empty the highway
full of vehicles, because you are in a hurry to
reach office, you cannot empty the highway of
your consciousness of all thoughts, emotions,
beliefs, worries, opinions, desires, memories
etc. some of which are even very familiar to
you, just because you want to get to the
destination of your inner peace. Let all of
these, like the vehicles, come and go, but all
you have to do is avoid them and focus on
reaching your destination on time. It's as if,
by the way you are driving, your body language,
in this case the subtle energy of your
determined thought, word has spread through the
highway of your consciousness that you will not
be sparing a second to even glance at any one of
these on your way. If with a momentary loss of
self-awareness, you do start giving attention to
them, and you get lost in one of them, remind
yourself subconsciously, "I am on my way back to
the destination of peace, peace that I am." This
will help you regain your focus and before you
know it, you will realize you have arrived; you
will experience your destination i.e. the peace
within, and will completely believe that you are
that. And it will be the most blissful
experience that you have felt in a very long
time.
Message for the
day
To be free from
weaknesses is to move forward constantly.
Expression:
Most of the times I do win
over my weaknesses and achieve progress but
sometimes I find that I am defeated at the wrong
moment by my own weakness and I experience
failure. So instead of finding the progress that
I should I find that I am moving back.
Experience:
In order to bring benefit to
others and to myself, I should recognise and
remove even the last trace of weakness that is
working within me. For that I need to have a
constant checking about the real cause of the
weakness and remove it. Such checking and
changing helps me to overcome my weaknesses.