09.05.2015

Mind Matters
The most important part of you is your mind (not
your brain - the brain is the hardware and the
mind creates the software). Care for your mind,
make friends with it, always feed it healthy
food, engage it in positive activity, exercise
it with knowledge and wisdom. Like a garden
returns fragrance and beauty according to the
care invested, so your mind will repay you with
thoughts, ideas and visions of great beauty when
tended and invested with care. Your mind is not
made of matter but it does matter what you give
it and what you create with it. Where your mind
goes, you go. What your mind creates becomes
your destiny.
Love Your Work
If something is
difficult, it means there is no love. Where
there is
love, even a task as difficult and big as a
mountain becomes as easy
and light as cotton. Love makes work easier and
lighter. Today is the
day to love your work. Whatever you are doing,
remember that you love
your work. Experiment with one thing that you
have been finding it
difficult to do with a reminder to yourself that
you love it and that
is the reason you are doing it.
The Location Of
The Soul Inside The Body
The soul has the following basic functions to
perform:
* to give life to the body and to maintain life
inside it,
* to express and experience its role through the
body, and
* to receive the rewards or fruits of past
actions performed in previous births, through
the body.
These functions are controlled and monitored by
the soul via the nervous and hormonal systems
from a particular point in the area of the brain
which contains the thalamus, hypothalamus,
pituitary and pineal glands. This region is
known as the seat of the soul, or the third
eye. The connection between the physical
(body) and the non-physical (soul) is by the
medium of thought energy. Many religions and
philosophies place great importance on the
third eye, or eye of the mind. When viewed
from the front, this region appears to be
between and slightly above the line of the
eyebrows. It's for this reason that Hindus use a
tilak, a dot in red or sandalwood paste
in the middle of the forehead. Christians also
make the sign of the cross in this region. Even
when one makes a mistake or expresses tiredness
it's to this region that we put the hands in the
gestures of self-dismay or exhaustion. After all
the soul subconsciously knows that it makes the
mistakes and not the body. When people are
concentrating deeply in thought it is this area
of the forehead where creases or lines are
formed on the skin.
Soul Sustenance
The
Two Dimensions Of Being A Detached Observer
There are two dimensions of being a detached
observer - the inner dimension and the
outer one.
Let us look at the inner dimension of
detached observation. It is the ability or
the technique to stand back from or observe in a
detached way our own thoughts, feelings,
emotions, attitudes and behavior. We are
creators and our thoughts, feelings, emotions
and attitudes are our creation. In fact, this is
the first step to becoming a ruler of the self
and making the self powerful. If we fail to
detach from our thoughts and emotions then they
will be our masters, they will go out of control
and will, as a result, leak away or waste our
energy. Practice simply being the witness of
whatever you are thinking and feeling. This is
an important aspect of any good spiritual
practice and after a while you will find it an
experience that both, frees you and empowers
you.
The external dimension of detached
observation is the technique of being a witness
to or an observer of the scenes, of the world
around us. As we stand back and watch the
scenes of life being played, on the world stage
around us, without being actively involved, we
can see the 'big picture' more clearly. This
makes it easier to judge clearly what is the
most suitable contribution that we can make and
the most suitable role we can play - through our
thoughts, words and actions.
Message for the
day
To make the aim and qualification equal is to
bring perfection.
Expression:
To have an aim that is high
is to naturally bring about the desire to do the
best in everything. But also important is to
make effort to bring about those qualifications
that are needed to fulfill this aim. So the one
who has the desire to make the aim and
qualifications equal is the one who is able to
bring beauty to every action.
Experience:
When I am able to make constant effort to bring
in those qualities that are necessary for my aim
I am able to bring perfection. I am able to
experience the satisfaction of bringing a lot of
change in a short time. I experience constant
progress as I continue to make effort to move on
towards my aim.