19.07.2015

Library at the Benedictine Monastery of Admont,
Admont, Austria
Something New
Focusing
on developing a positive aspect of one's life
can achieve a goal more easily than by trying to
give up the negative habit.
After all, it seems
to be easier to take on something new than to
give up something old! The
old way often falls away out of disuse.
To be special is to
do ordinary things in a special way.
If I want to be
special, I don't really have to do something
special and spectacular. Probably, the
opportunities for doing such things are also
very rare. But we surely have plenty of
opportunity to do each and everything in a
special way. That means, I value the
contribution I make and I value the action
itself. Today I will bring specialty to my
actions. Before I start any action, I will
remind myself of the contribution I have to make
and also understand the significance of the task
itself. I will then start the action. This will
bring specialty to all I do.
The Principle Of
Focus and Flow
If we look at the sun and the earth, we
appreciate a basic and fundamental law of life,
which we as human beings can learn from, that is
of great help in the right movement of life. By
means of light, the sun gives life to the earth;
in addition, the sun is fixed in its position (a
symbol of focus) to enable the earth (a
symbol of flow) and all the other planets
of our solar system to continue in their
rhythmic, harmonious orbit. Otherwise, there
would be chaos, upheaval and great damage. The
earth on the other hand, constantly moves in
repetitive cycles around the sun. This movement
allows for changes and expression on the earth,
which have a beginning, middle and end. In other
words, the phenomenon of time is created as a
direct result of the earth's balanced and
harmonious cyclic movements. Both the fixed
position of the sun and the movement of the
earth are necessary for life. The earth has all
the potential for life but, without light from a
fixed source, there would be no life. In the
same way, the sun has the power to give life,
but if the moving earth did not hold the
potential, even with light, there would be no
sustenance of life.
Tomorrow we shall explain how this
fundamental law involving the sun and the earth
can be applied to real life (the principle of
focus and flow)...
Soul Sustenance
The Invisible
Impressions That Shape Me
While the mind and intellect are two faculties
of the soul which play their role on the surface
of our consciousness; at a deeper level, hidden
beneath these two faculties, there lies a third
faculty commonly called the sanskaras.
The sanskaras is not only a store house
of personality traits, as we commonly know it to
be, but a store house of millions and millions
of impressions or imprints. Such a large
number of impressions are created by millions of
experiences that I go through my sense organs
not only in this life but in all my lifetimes.
Everything that I hear, see, touch, taste,
etc. I process or analyze or summarize in my own
unique way; basically I give the experiences a
unique form depending on my personality, before
this form gets stored in the form of impressions
inside me. I even process my subtle
experiences, which are in the form of thoughts
and feelings.
This process of experiencing and processing
takes place during each and every second of my
life including the time I sleep, when my mind
may not be experiencing a lot but it is busy
processing the physical and subtle experiences
of the day that has gone by and storing the
processed information in the form of
impressions. From this, one can get an idea of
the magnitude of the database of impressions
stored within me, the being. These imprints
which are unique to me, make up my sanskaras,
and shape up my unique personality in a
cyclic process. My personality shapes what type
of impressions are created out of my experiences
and the impressions in turn shape my
personality, my thoughts, words and actions
e.g. if I constantly keep the company of people
who gossip, a large number of respective
impressions based on the experience of gossiping
keep getting stored inside me, which in turn
influence my personality, the personality
characteristic gets stronger and over a period
of time I do not find anything wrong with it and
indulge in it more and more. As a result more
such impressions get stored. Thus it is a cyclic
process.
Message
for the day
Success
comes about only when there is an effort to
bring about transformation.
Projection:
When I am working towards
being successful I usually want to work with
just those personality treats that I have always
been working with before. But this does not
always bring me success. Then the reaction is to
blame the people around you or blame the people
around you or the situations.
Solution:
Learning from each situation
and working to bring about steady transformation
brings constant success for me whatever the
situations I will surely feel successful.