06.07.2015

Artist: Alvaro Arteaga,
Profesor Universidad Diego Portales, Vina del
Mar, Chile
Give
Give to others from
the heart and in turn many things will come to
you.
The ability to bring
out strength is to be constantly powerful.
We normally get to a
state of mind, according to the situation. But,
we can take inspiration from examples like the
incense stick which is full of fragrance, and
spreads only that. Also is the example of the
candle/lamp. It is fully of light so that is
what it radiates. So it is important to connect
to my strengths at all times, so that I can give
what I have at all times. Today I will remember
a positive quality that I have. I will remind
myself of this at least 10 times or as many
times as I can. And while I do that, whatever
the challenge may be I'll believe in my own
strengths and continue to use them.
Reaching The
Destination Of Peace On Time
The objective of
meditation has always been reaching the
destination of inner peace. The process of
meditation is like a journey to that
destination, which many human souls have
undertaken since thousands of years. After a
life and in fact many lifetimes of indulging in
habits of anger, fear, ego, sorrow, jealousy,
hatred, greed etc. all of which blocked our
access to this inner pure emotion and made us
believe that these are normal emotions,
believing completely that our true nature is
peaceful, which is an experience opposite to all
these; might seem difficult at first. Only our
own experience can lead to a change in our
deeply held beliefs, which then makes it easy
for us to incorporate peace as an integral part
of our personality.
As you dive into you own consciousness, with the
objective of searching for and reaching your
subtle destination of inner peace, you will
encounter some distractions in your journey.
Some of the most important of such distractions
include:
* thoughts in the form of negative memories
of the past; over-thinking about the
present scenes and day-to-day actions
in your life; desires, worries and unnecessary
thinking related to the future, waste
thinking about the natures and actions of
people whom we come into contact with the
most, etc.
* the inner, subtle voices of the many
incorrect beliefs, which we have picked up
from people by whom we have been surrounded
since we were small;
* thoughts and emotions related to deep
habits of identifying with and getting attached
to things we are not, like the physical
body, material possessions, people, our role in
society, money, places, opinions or viewpoints,
hobbies or interests etc.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Resolving
the Inner Identity Crisis (Part 1)
At the present moment
in human history, almost every individual has
lost the awareness of its real or true self.
This has happened very gradually as each
individual has progressed in its journey of
birth-rebirth and has kept on attaching itself
to various different things and as a result
losing its sense of self in things that it is
not i.e. identifying with things that it is not.
In a way it can be said that this took the self
far away from itself. This personal, internal
identity crisis has led to a universal, external
identity crisis, which has resulted in an
emotional crisis resulting in peacelessness and
sorrow in our inner world as well as in the
outer world.
This inner identity crisis is the root cause
of the multitude of deformed emotions that exist
inside us like anger, ego, lust, fear,
comparison with others, greed, hatred, low self
esteem, dependencies etc. all of which have
brought us and keep on bringing us pain. We
explain this with an example – suppose you have
just constructed a new apartment. While making
it and once its ready and you are using it, you
have become excessively attached to it i.e. you
have started identifying with it. Due to this
false identification, the first emotion that
gets created inside you is ego. If someone were
to criticize the apartment even slightly, you
would react immediately with anger. You
constantly fear any sort of harm to the
apartment. You even compare it with apartments
that others possess. You also start looking down
at people whose apartment is not as good as
yours i.e. you create emotions of hatred for
them. If something negative were to happen it,
it affects your mental state immediately i.e.
your happiness has become dependent on the
material possession. Your temporary success
along with the recognition that it brings you
from others leads to the desire of more success
of a similar type i.e. possess some more things
- bigger and better, which is nothing but greed
etc. The seed of all these incorrect emotions is
my over-identification with this newly acquired
possession. All of these wouldn’t exist inside
me, if my relationship with was one of
detachment with it. In this way, we identify
with various objects and people in the whole
day, which leads to the creation of such
emotions inside us.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message
for the day
To be experienced
means never to be deceived by anything.
Projection:
It is normally
understood that to be experienced means to gain
expertise in something, or to become a master in
a particular field. Such a person, who is an
expert in one field might find himself totally
impractical in daily situations.
Solution:
Life has so many things to
teach me through the various situations. I need
to keep learning from all that happens. Then
I'll never be surprised or cheated by any
unexpected events, but will be prepared because
of being experienced.