30.11.2014

A Beautiful house in Zell (Mosel), Germany
Trustee Consciousness
We all have a relationship with everything.
Obviously the relationship we have with the
people and objects in our immediate vicinity is
more intimate than the rest of the world. For
most of us the most common relationship is
possession. In our minds we think we own and
possess things like cars and houses and carpets
and golf clubs etc. This thinking easily spreads
into jobs and tasks and positions and perhaps
even other people. "I want you", and "You are
mine alone", is the essence of many romantic
film scripts and song lyrics. What we forget is
that this relationship is wrong. It is not
possible to possess anything. Care for... yes.
Use...yes. But possess... no. You can't take it
with you when you go, so we say! And yet it's
the idea of possession which lies at the heart
of all fear, war and conflict. Can you see it?
Fear of loss, fear of not acquiring what we have
already decided is ours in our minds. So what is
a better relationship we can choose which takes
all the fear away? Be a trustee. Everything
comes to us in trust, for us to use and then to
set it free. The consciousness of trustee sets
us free of the tension of grasping and guarding.
To see ourselves as trustees of everything that
we receive, including our bodies, encourages our
innate capacity to 'care for with dignity'. It
is a much more relaxing way of relating to the
things which we are privileged to receive in
life.
Innate Qualities
When we face negative situations, we either
become negative or we try to move away from the
situation. But that too becomes a temporary
solution, as the negative thoughts, feelings and
emotions continue to follow us. The only way we
can come into positivity, even in the most
negative situation, is by connecting to our
innate qualities. Deep within us are the most
beautiful qualities of peace, love and
happiness, which we mistakenly look for outside.
Practicing with these qualities help us maintain
positivity under all circumstances.
Meditating With Open Eyes
It is advised to practice meditation with eyes
open. When we sit to meditate, if we close our
eyes, what we do is that we send a signal to our
mind, intellect and our physical body that sleep
is close and that signal, in turn, induces
sleep. That is the last thing we want to induce
inside ourselves, while meditating. Meditation
is a way to wake up and stay awake, not only
physically, but in terms of being conscious and
alert about what is happening internally
and externally. It is therefore good
to practice with eyes open, so that during your
meditation, you can become used to going beyond
the physical inputs of what you see, hear, feel
and smell and at the same time, remain exposed
to these inputs. By practicing with open or
semi-open eyes, it becomes easier to create the
accurate state of consciousness while still
being faintly aware of our surroundings. This
will be essential in day to day activities when
we want to stay connected to our inner peace
while others around us may not necessarily be
very peaceful. It will also help us to move
deeply into our peaceful consciousness during
conversations which at the same time, require
alertness to go into the depth of ideas and
concepts. When we are established in our
peaceful, spiritual state (as a result of
meditating), it is as if we are keeping our
third eye, the eye of our intellect, open, which
gives us the ability to see, in actions and
interactions, what is true and false, and to
make the right decisions without being
influenced by others or our own emotions. All
the above abilities are required many times
during the day. We obviously can't keep closing
our eyes to meditate each time any of these
abilities are required.
Soul Sustenance
Understanding And Overcoming Fears
We are all afraid of something. We all have
fears at some point or other during our lives,
and one fear brings about other fears. For
example, the fear of death brings about the fear
of illness or the fear of accidents. The fear of
rejection comes from the fear of being perceived
as different. The fear of success or standing
out comes of the fear of relating to people.
From the fear of failure comes the fear of
making mistakes; the fear of taking on risks;
the fear of taking decisions, the fear of not
being recognized at work. The fear of others
includes the fear of the anger and
aggressiveness in others, fear that they might
reject you, fear that they might judge you.
Eliminating fears and liberating the mind
requires a broad knowledge of how our mind and
spirit work. Our spiritual conscience has to
awaken for us to realize what the origin of our
fears is and how to overcome them from the root.
Fears are like a tree; we can cut off a branch,
but then other branches or fears will grow. We
have to go to the root and, even, the seed, to
overcome the fears. Tomorrow we shall list out
some of the common fears.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the day
To be careless means to misuse specialties.
Expression:
To be careless means that there is no awareness
of one's specialties and so there is the
inability to use them for the benefit of the
self and for the good of others. On the other
hand there is also a tendency to become
overconfident because of these specialties and
not to work on self - transformation. The one
who is careless is not able to recognize the
need for self change and so is not able to bring
about transformation.
Experience:
When I am able to be free from carelessness, I
am able to understand the importance of the
specialties that I have, and am able to use a
particular specialty that I have, and am able to
put them into use. So I find that the more I am
able to use a particular specialty that I have,
the more I am able to bring out and use the
latent specialties that are within me. So I am
able to experience quick transformation and
constant progress.