11.22.09
Story: Pray For a Contented Mind
The Lord Vishnu said to his devotee: “I am weary
of your constant petitions.
I have decided to grant you any
three things you ask for. After that,
I shall give you nothing more.”
The devotee delightedly made his first
petition at once. He asked that his
wife should die so that he could marry
a better woman. His petition was
immediately granted.
But when friends and relatives gathered
for the funeral and began to recall all
the good qualities of his wife, the
devotee realized he had been hasty. He
now realized he had been blind to
all her virtues. Was he likely to find
another woman as good as her?
11.17.09
Precious Presence : Being in the Moment
Focusing on the present, it is always something that we are saying to each other, all in good spirit, it seems to realize stress if one takes the words to heart. If you truly believe this in your soul something will begin to re-orchestrate with you to help you reach this goal.
First I want to look at why its so important.. Which may seem quite evident as to why its so important but we seem to keep missing it, for if we were in a constant state of being present, one, we would be liberated, and two, misery would be non existent. Being present however does not say anything about facing hardships, things will still happen that are hard, nothing really changes, except the state of being is now here/now instead of in an illusion. In this way you have become reconnected with reality. This is why its precious, because being present does not require you to be anything else but who you are in the very moment. You have never been so beautiful infact, exactly at this moment as you are, but as soon as you begin to put yourself in the past, or in the future, things begin to become ugly, the thought wanders, and thoughts are only products of the past.. and then thoughts generate from past to something that could be to the future, which is really nothing more than the past changed slightly from the mes perspective.
11.12.09
Suffering Suffers, You Do Not.
It seems to be one of the major concerns of people, and different things may or may not seem to cause this calamity on the individual. However, I don’t see it as being anything more than something phenomenal. Infact I don’t see it coming from any external source at all.. but rather coming from yourself. There seems to be a lack of responsibility that comes with suffering, that one may point the finger at another and then exclaim, “you have done this to me.” What has that person really done though? They have reacted in a certain way, but what have you done, and that needs to be inquired about, to be looked at closer.
Is it not the fact that you have a set filter on, based on things that have been accumulated over time that you have taken to be your own? Have you not unawares to you, attached yourself to those ideals and then allowed those ideals to become defensive over the reaction of the other, someone who is not seperate from you. It arises out of unawareness, and this is very helpful because it is pointing out that there is the opposition, that had you not had that opposition you would not be witholding happiness from yourself. Just think about another situation in which another person in your same shoes may not have this thought that you have and so does not affect them in the slightest. So then it comes down to you not taking responsibility for your own unawareness, which is why you are angry, anxious, sad, conflicted. Of course the intellectual mind will make a logical explanation, it always can, but what says you have to trust that explanation, just because you believe yourself to be the mind doesn’t mean you have to trust it anymore than anything else that is gathering information.
11.07.09
Right View : You Will Go On Missing.
I have recently been listening to a lot of Adyashanti
works lately (i’ve been switching between him and Osho) and have been looking into something that seems to ring true on some level…
We will know its true intellectually until it goes beyond the concept of truth.
He said something that has for whatever reason stuck with me since I last heard it and that was, “If you have right view, the rest is sure to follow.” He is referring to the Buddhist 8 fold path in this context, which is right action, right conduct, right blah blah blah, etc. You don’t need to know all the rights to know the most important one, and the most important one seems to be the most difficult… This comes with good reason though… because how can you have right anything else, if you do not have the right view? If you are unaware that you currently have the wrong view, how can you have right action out of wrong view?
10.28.09
What Am I?
I’ve come back to this question… Something has brought the me back to this question…. and there is no answer.. I don’t know if the feeling of fear or the feeling of wanting to know is greater.
No matter how many times I’ve looked at this question for an answer, I’ve never gotten and answer… well not that the mind can come up with… and even if it did get an answer, what good would it do the mind… it would only be intellectual.
A Fancy question with a fancy answer is how i put it.
Still i’m pulled to ask this question and maybe through all this sleeping i’ll discover that I’m not sleeping at all.
Have you asked yourself this question with your heart. Not with the fancy intellectual… he could answer that question for days… not with him, but with the very thing that we keep go on missing… that thing that is right in front of us… WE ARE MISSING IT AT EVERY MOMENT, until the point at which we are not missing…
Do not trust the one who “knows”.
