22.08.2014

Getting on with it
Worrying about how everything will get done or whether I
am capable of doing it limits my ability to respond to
challenges. The less I think about doing something and
the more I just get on with it the better. Good planning
is always helpful, but time spent fretting and
procrastinating drains my energy.
Understanding
It is vital for us all to make space for inner peace,
and that a key step to this is valuing our TIME. Others
can only benefit from our time if we learn the value of
it ourselves. In our quick-fix society it is all too
easy to reach for a glass of wine or some other
substance to make us feel chilled out, but changing the
way we think is the only true solution to finding peace.
Sometimes the mind can become unbalanced and you can
develop bad habits such as taking drugs. But if you have
understanding you can always bring about change.
The Evolution Of Anger
We become a little irritated when we are stuck in a
traffic jam and we getting late to reach somewhere on
time, or we are not going to complete a particular task,
as per our expectations or if someone whom we very well
know decides to ignore us today, for some reason or the
other. If this seed of irritation is watered, or in
other words it is given the concentrated energy of our
attention i.e. we continue with the irritation for some
time, it slowly grows or evolves into frustration.
Unless we take some constructive inner action to stop
the growth of the frustration and we keep energizing it,
it will grow or evolve into anger. And if this happens
regularly and we are not careful, it will become a
habit, a part of our personality, which we will finally
come to believe is a natural part of your nature. We
will even think we were born with it. That it is 'in our
genes'. Every time we become angry we cause the
production of certain chemicals in our body and we also
become addicted to those chemicals - then we look for
people and situations which will give us an excuse to
get angry so that we can have our daily dose of
chemicals. We not only become attached to material
objects, people, ways of thinking, beliefs etc. - we
also become attached to our emotions like the emotion of
anger. The regular secretion of these chemicals will
finally kill our body. We don't need to kill our body.
We need to accept that anger is never ever productive,
know that it is just not necessary to be angry with
anyone or about anything, know that it is entirely our
own creation and know that we can choose a different
response. If we know and accept that, we will experience
freedom from it.
Soul Sustenance
Understanding the Inner Mechanism of Anger
If we think, speak and act in an angry way, we leave an
impression or memory of anger within our own
consciousness which results in sanskara of anger to be
born. Within the sanskara is the recorded emotion and
experience of our expression towards the object of our
anger. The object is a particular person or situation.
If we encounter the object of our anger the next day, it
will trigger the emergence the recorded anger from
within the sanskara. We then deepen the sanskara as we
express more anger, even if we only 'think' anger. The
emergence of this emotional energy from within our
consciousness then stops us from interacting in a
positive way. It clouds our mind and confuses our
intellect, weakening and distorting our thoughts,
decisions and behaviour. This often explains why we find
it harder to connect and communicate with certain people
in our life. Essentially we are carrying a negative
image of the other person within our sanskara from a
previous interaction with them. And when we see them
again it emerges the energy within the sanskara, which
then influences our ability to respond to them.
Message for the day
True detachment is to be a master of all things that we
use.
Projection:
Detachment is usually mistaken as being away from things
because usually while using the facilities available we
tend to get dependent on them. Such dependency is
troublesome and so we sometimes give up using these
facilities thinking that this is detachment which helps
us to be free from their control.
Solution:
The solution lies in mentally detaching ourselves from
the facilities we are using. That means we use them but
we are not dependent on them. For this we need to remind
ourselves that we are the creator and whatever
facilities are available to us are the creation. This
enables us to develop mastery and control over
everything.