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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
Until then…….
For now it seems that the task on the shoulder is to recognise or to be able to differentiate between looking & seeing, between things and space, listening & hearing, sound & silence and so on….
Until the task is done by non-doing (?) but rather by “being” (?), dream on….
Dream on till waking up… until then..
The first 3 paragraphs precisely describes of how it is when we live and get caught up with the drama of our illusion. But how can anyone avoid this for this is exactly how each one of us are being taught to understand life from a child, parents with their do’s and don’ts, religious teachers that emphasizes on commandments and teachings of rights and wrongs, therein begins the birth to judgments and comparisons, e.g. I am better than you because I am not doing the wrongs that you are doing…. I pray everyday therefore I am good and you are where you are because you don’t pray…My children are better off than yours because I am a much responsible parent in comparative to you.
However, the beauty of this creative illusion is, it will somehow lead and bring everyone to the space to learn and understand the wisdom of truth. No matter who you think you are or what you think you are, at the end of the day, we are all of the same essence and there is only one access door to freedom…which is the truth that sets you free!
The journey can be funny and yet despairing. Whichever I experience is where wisdom and delusion lies. To be heedful of these two is godliness in action.