Paradox of Time

The paradox of our time in history is that..

we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;
wider free-ways, but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less;
we buy more, but enjoy less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgement;
more experts, yet more problems;
more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much,
smoke too much,
spend too recklessly,
laugh too little,
drive too fast,
get angry too quickly,
stay up too late,
get up too tired,
read too little,
watch TV too much,
and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life.
If you added years to life, but not life to years.

We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet and the new neighbour.
We’ve conquered outer-space, but not inner-space.
We’ve done larger things, but not better things…

We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudices.
We write more, but learn less.

(~ By BOB MOOREHEAD)

Why I’m Not a Lightworker

Why I’m Not a Lightworker

'I am knowledge and ignorance. I am shame and boldness. I am shameless; I am ashamed. I am strength and I am fear. I am war and peace. I am control and the uncontrollable. I am the union and the dissolution. I am the one whom they call Life, and you have called Death.'
– Fragments of text from ancient gnostic manuscript “The Thunder, Perfect Mind” found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt

Good/bad, right/wrong, light/dark, positive/negative, hero/villain, saint/sinner – these concepts are all products of duality. And so is being a “lightworker” or “darkworker.”

In reality, there is no such thing as a lightworker or darkworker: there is just a worker, a person. When we understand the futility of identifying with something that doesn’t exist (only in dualistic thought), we can experience life with immense wholeness and clarity.

I am not a Lightworker.

I am a Light ryder.
Dark tamer,
And
Shadow dweller.

Souls and Karmic Connections

IF YOU ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THIS ...
YOU WILL NEVER COMPLAIN IN LIFE.....

Souls and Karmic Connections

We have travelled through many lifetimes and lived with many different souls amid family, friends or those who don't really get along with us. Some may have even tried to harm us emotionally, physically or spiritually. All said and done. We all are the same and belong to only one group that is SOULS. We all have travelled together in different lifetimes and have shared various relationships with each other such as,

Father-Mother
Husband-Wife
Uncle-Aunt
Brother-Sister
Friends
Neighbours
Servants
Drivers and
Even so-called Enemies.
Pets: dogs, cats, fish, etc.

Each person is a Soul that tries to help the other move forward spiritually and reduce the Karmic baggage.

Sometimes the Soul that loves us the most, might voluntarily  take birth as an enemy or a tormentor in a lifetime, just to help us work out our Karma. Thus, a person, who we think hates us and we in return hate, might be our greatest well-wisher spiritually.

He or She may be responsible for our becoming spiritual or compassionate. That very person who is creating a hell in our lives may bring us closer to spirituality. In the present lifetime, he/she may be doing so because that could be the only way to teach us a lesson.

Sometimes, a Soul has been reborn just to comfort us and be there in times of need.

So, who is our friend and who is our enemy? They all are part of the Soul-Family who wants to help us and want help in return. Sometimes an opportunity comes in the form of a Disaster. Sometimes, the only way to grow spiritually and in life is through pain, sorrow and turmoil.

That is when Life seems strange.

Hence, never form judgments, abuse or hate and never say nasty things about anyone. Who knows we may be harming the Soul who loves us the most spiritually but are not able to recognize it as the soul is wearing a different body in this particular lifetime
Most of the souls, who is helping us to remove our Karmic baggage, may evolve into dreams of hell  and  suffer many generations.
______ #Tripitaka #Buddha'sTeachings

You're so hard on yourself.
Take a moment..
Sit back.
Marvel at your life:
at the grief that softened you,
at the heartache that wizened you,
at the suffering that strengthened you.
Despite everything,
you still grow,
Be proud of this.

What is Thyself

The self, surely, cannot be identified with the body, senses or the internal organ, nor can it be regarded as a mere by-product of matter. The bodily self or the waking self identifies with its contents --- body, senses, mind, wife, son, daughter, sister, father, mother, brother, relation, friend. It stretches itself and identifies itself with the object and feels as if they constitute its being, as if it is incomplete, nay, no nore, without them. But infact that which can be known as an object can never itself be the empirical self. Dreams have been selected by Prajapati because here the objects have to be framed by the mind independently of the body or the senses. In the walking life, the objects are there apart from and outside of the mind which are only known and not created by it. Here the mind is helped by the senses which take the fleeting and scattered manifold of sense-impression caused by external objects to the mind which arranges them into order and gives meaning and unity to them.
But in the dreams, the mind has to function alone and fabricate imaginary objects for itself. It is the state, therefore, of perception without sensation. The self in the waking as well as in the dream state is ever changing and therefore cannot be the real self. The self must persist throughout the changes as their knower. The ego, limited by space and time, by birth and death, is a miserable creature.
The body is not the self, though it exists for the self. The dream-experiences are not the self. Though they have meaning only for the self. The self is not an abstract formal principle of deep sleep too. The eye, the body, the mental states, the presentation continuum, the stream of consciousness --- are all mere instruments and objects of the self. The self is the ground of waking, dream and sleep states and yet it transcends them all. The self is universal, immanent as well as transcendent. The whole universe lives and moves and breathes in it. It is immortal, self-luminous, self-proved and beyond doubts and denials, as the principle which makes all doubts, denial and thoughts possible. It is the ultimate subject which can never become an object and which is to be necessarily presupposed by all knowledge.
Chhandogya Upanisad

The Dream of Life (Alan Watts)

If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death or shall i say death implies life. you can feel yourself. Not as a stranger in the world.
Not as something here on probation. Not as something that has arrived here by fluke.
But you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. I'm not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it. I want you to play with it. I want you to think of its possibilities. I'm not trying to provide it. I'm just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about So then...
Let's suppose that you were able every night, to dream any dream you wanted to dream. And that you could for example have the power within one night to dream seventy five years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfil all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure. And after several nights of seventy five years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well that was pretty great!"
"But now let's - let's have a surprise". "Let's have a dream which isn't under control". "Where something is going to happen to me but I don't know what it's going to be." And you would dig that And come out of that you'd say "Wow that was a close shave wasn't it?" Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further and further gambles to what you would dream. Finally you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices that you would have. Of playing that you weren't God.
Because the whole nature of the God in you according to this idea, is to play that he's not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self. The deep down basics, whatever there is. And you're all that. Only you are pretending your not.

The Mind (Alan Watts)

So then let's consider first of all what is a mind in the grip a vicious circles.
Well one of the most obvious instances that we all know is the phenomenon of worry.
The doctor tells you that you have to have an operation.
And that has been set up so that automatically everybody worries about it.
But since worrying takes away your appetite an your sleep it's not good for you.
But you can't stop worrying and therefor you get additionally worried that you are worrying.
And then furthermore because that is quite absurd and your mad at yourself because you do it,
you are worried because you worry because you worry.
That is a vicious circle. So now, can you allow your mind to be quite?
Isn't it difficult?
Because the mind seems to be like a monkey, jumping up and down and jabbering all the time. Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence. When you're alone
nobody's saying anything, there's nothing to do just this worrying, this lack of distraction.
I'm left alone with myself and I wanna get away from myself I always want to get away myself.
That's why I go to the movies, that's why I go to the biscuit stores,
that's why I go after girls or anything or get drunk or whatever.
I don't want to be with myself. I feel queer.
So well why do you wanna run away from yourself?
What's so bad about it?
Why do you want to forget this?
Why do you want to become yourself?
Because you are addicted to thoughts. This is a drug, too dangerous one.

Compulsive thinking, on an on and on and on all the time. It's a habit.
So there's a difficulty about stopping that activity.
And you really have to stop it if you want to be sane.
Because if I talk all the time I don't hear what anyone else has to say.
And I'll end up in the situation of having nothing to talk about but my own talking.
And so exactly the same way if I think all the time
I won't have anything to think about except thoughts.
So in order to have something to think about, there are times when you simply must stop thinking.
We;;, how do you do that?
The first tule is don't try to. Because if you do, you will be like someone trying to make a rough water smooth with flatiron. and all that will do will stir it up. So in the same way as muddy turbulent pool quiets itself when left alone, you have to know how to leave your mind alone. It will quiet itself.

Secret of Life (Jim Carrey)

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul

I've often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame and
so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion
I can tell you from experience that effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is
Because everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart
and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart
we're not the avatars we create we're not the pictures on the film stock
we are the light that shines through. All else is just smoke and mirrors
Distracting but not truly compelling our eyes are not viewers they're also projectors
that are running a second story over the picture
that we see in front of us all the time fear is writing that script
now fear is going to be a player in your life you get to decide how much
you could spend you whole life imagining ghosts
worrying about the pathway to the future but all there will ever be
is what's happening here in the decisions we make in this moment which
are based in either love or fear
so many of us choose our path our of fear disguised as practicality
what we really want seems impossibly out of reach
and ridiculous to expect so we never dared to ask the universe for it
Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.
ad far as i can tell it's just about
letting the universe know what you want and working towards it
while letting go of how it comes to pass
why not take a chance on faith not religion but faith,not hope but faith.
I don't believe in hope. hope is the beggar. Hope walks through the fire
and faith leaps over it. you are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.
and after you walk through those doors today you'll only ever have two choices
Love or Fear, Choose love
and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.