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This blog is about the mind story – my intimate relationship with the mind. And the stories evolve around my own spiritual growth which includes my own shortcomings, observations and understanding.
Interestingly it was recognizing arrogance that propels me to look at spirituality from a different light, beginning from the Buddha’s teaching to other faith, seeing profound similarities in them. Arrogance swings me from one end of polarity to the other end, humility. And again, only in recognizing both ends was I able to come to my own balance state, the middle path. Both ends have extreme interpretations of good and bad whereas the centre has its understanding of both. The recognition I am talking about is wisdom in working, found in each and everyone of us, when we allow.
And my journey is still evolving and refining, bringing myself back again and again, consistently, allowing wisdom to unfold in me, from extremity to the middle path of non-judgment and non-violence, seeing the world as my own creation and definition.
May you find yourself in these readings and come into your inner peace and freedom.
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Quantum physics defies what Newtonian physics is all about. At the molecular level, the entire game changes. In fact it is totally in opposition to what is.
The same goes with the mind. The world I perceived outwardly is not exactly what I thought it is - a different set of rules reign within.
Beyond the falseness
Truth beckons me.
Welcome aboard!
1. Your Immortal Reality, Garry Renard
2. Disappearance of the Universe, Gary Renard
3. Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
4. The New Earth , Eckhart Tolle
5. Broken Open, Elizabeth Lesser
6. A Thousand Names for Joy, Byron Katie
7. Zen and the Kingdom of Heaven
8. The 12 Steps of Forgiveness, Paul Ferrini
9. The Silence of the Heart, Paul Ferrini
10. The Silent Road, Wellesley Tudor Pole
11. Beyond the Himalayan, M. MacDonald Bayne
12. The Last Barrier
13. Closing the Circle
14. Notes to Myself, Hugh Prather
15. Bearing Witness, Bernie Glassman
But how do I see something that I have not seen before? Am I seeing anything “new”? How possible to say “I saw something new”?
it all looks the same to me… a book is still a book… isn’t it? maybe a bit more crumpled or maybe it is collecting dust. so to be aware of the crumpled-ness and the dust?
You can always see something from a new perspective. But usually you don’t. For example, anger. You see anger as anger and never ponder about what is anger. You don’t like anger and you want to kill anger whenever you feel guilty about it. That does not help. You have to face something to understand it. You conclude anger rather than opening up the possibility of exploring anger. Remember the statement made by Yeshua: I am not angry for the reason I think it is. This statement makes one ponder and in that ponder, one explore and in exploring one come to understand deeply what the Master has said. The next round when there is anger, you don’t see it the same anymore. It will still be anger but your perception of anger changes. You look at it in a new perspective. Probably you don’t get that upset as before due to your understanding. You probe further through keen observation and you understand more than before and soon you will know that anger is not necessary. This is the undoing process. It is the same for any egoitic process.
The more you observe, the more you realize how little you know. That is wisdom too.
It is not about the book, it is about the perception of the book. The fixed perception makes you see things the same. When you see things the same you are giving space for inner insights to arise. Thus right questioning is important. Question whenever you do something. Are you doing out of autopilot or out of essentiality? Are you getting angry without knowing why? Keep probing. Inquisitiveness is a requisites to understanding, to wisdom.