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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
Am I responsible for my “child upbringing”? What I meant was, at that age, I was only a child, not an adult. Isn’t crying to get attention is quite “natural” (nature) for a child? And this “nature” develops into “shouting” in adulthood?
Which brings me to another question. Some babies/toddlers are without much fuss but some undoubtedly with very much fuss and deafening. When do babies learn to be like that? Nature?
Is a child’s life a beginning of innocence, or a continuation from ignorance? That question was posed by my teacher. Do I see this life a transition, a continuation of a past or a beginning from ground zero? In my daily observation, I find that the mind chooses friends according to its liking and thus the circle of people around are those that keep its pattern intact – birds of the same feather flocks together. In a bigger picture the mind is conditioned to attract similar patterns of its liking and disliking, rather than it chooses consciously.
Similarly, the mind is attracted to a certain conception conditioning for birth to take place. Hence the setting is of no coincidence as that is what the mind is being attracted to. Of course it is much more complicated than the simplistic few here but the gist of mind movement is such.
means when i cry to get attention as a kid, i thought i had attention but reality is that is what the mind thinks, not really that i got the attention. is that true?
Yes you got it right – it is just a thought, an idea the mind contorts and fabricates from perceptions of the past.
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Strange this post is totaly unrelated to what I was searching google for, but it was listed on the first page. I guess your doing something right if Google likes you enough to put you on the first page of a non related search. :)
that’s interesting. there are unexplainable occurrences of late – probably its for your highest good :)