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If you want to be happy for an hour take a nap
for a day, go fishing
for a month, get married
for a year, get an inheritance
for a lifetime, help someone.
Chinese proverb
What you need it will arrive when you need it by “Divine post” at the right time, not before, so no need to project lack just confidence and patience.
If A Child
If a Child If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive.
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.
But
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident.
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with recognition, he learns it is good to have a goal.
If a child lives with honesty, he learns what truth is.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him.
If a child lives with friendliness, he learns the world is a nice place in which to live, to love and be loved.
From Anthony De Mello’s The song of the bird
A girl in the fishing village became an unwed
mother and after several beatings finally revealed
who the father of the child was: the Zen master
living on the outskirts of the village.
The villagers trooped into the master’s house,
rudely disturbed his meditation, denounced him
as a hypocrite, and told him to keep the baby.
All the master said was, “Very well. Very Well.”
He picked the baby up
and made arrangements
for a woman from the village to feed and clothe
and look after it at his expense.
The master’s name was ruined and his disciples
all abandoned him.
When this had gone on for a year, the girl
who had borne the child could stand it no longer
and finally confessed that she had lied. The father
of the child was the boy next door.
The villagers were most contrite. They prostrated
themselves at the feet of the master to beg his pardon
and to ask for the child back. The master returned
the child. And all he said was, “Very well. Very Well”
. A great story that comes from the Eastern traditions beautifully illustrates this
A fisherman was sleeping on the beach in the shade of his boat and a development expert came along to speak to him.
“Why are you resting?” he asked.
“I have already been out fishing and have caught enough fish to feed my family,” the fisherman replied.
“But if you went out fishing again you could catch more fish.”
“And what would I do with those fish?”
“You could now sell them and with the cash you may buy a bigger net.”
“What would I do with this net?”
“Catch more fish”
“And what would I do with those fish?”
“Sell them and buy a motor for your boat.”
“And why should I buy a motor?”
“To catch even more fish.”
“And what would I do with those fish?”
“Sell even more fish and then you can buy another boat.”
“And why would I want another boat?”
“So you can employ other people to catch fish for you, which would enable you to have leisure and rest. “
“But I am already resting!” the fisherman replied.
Only when we fully understand when enough is enough through our own practice and understanding, will we ever have enough and importantly understand the economics of enough.
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The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119
True spirituality takes place at the human level one to one.
Create an idealized image of yourself and practice it as if for a movie role. Acting ‘as if’‘ brings to awareness the potentiality to actually become that which is admired. As a learning device, it is often surprisingly effective to ‘pretend’ to be the quality that is desired and then much to one’s surprise, discover that it has been a non activated and latent aspect of one’s potentiality. Many people make self – improvement the number one priority in their lives and identify with admired figures instead of envying them.
From: Transcending levels of consciousness by David Hawkins
From, visions of the greatest mystic unveiled- a scientific perspective of the wisdom of Ramana Maharshi by Dr G K Pillai
Consciousness is a graded capacity that all life forms acquire during the evolutionary ascent. We inherited a primitive nervous system about 65 million years ago. The blueprint of our brain is only about 200,000 years old. The expanded frontal cortex of the brain and improved wirings in the neural net are more recent acquisitions. The rapid enhancement of our conscious capacities has been achieved probably within the past 50,000 years.
The structure of the human mind is like a computer in that the mind’s basic structure is akin to the hardware and its content to the software. The mind has a very limited control over the content of the programming: thus the human is simultaneously accountable and responsible yet can be said to be quite innocent.
In the information age that we live in the minds programming is incessant and constant, yet the mind is lacking in any protective mechanisms, therefore it can be made to believe in anything by mere repetition no matter how outrageous or absurd it is. Such programming is likened to indoctrination that is outside of awareness. So we better be mindful of what goes in.
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