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If you
are suffering with any problems whether it be a life
issue or a spiritual
Some of these helpers may be trained counsellors, psychic, mediums, Reiki healers or alternative therapists. some are helpful minded people that give their time to help others within this world. So please be patient while they try to help you as best they can considering the format of communication. Spiritual Words of Wisdom that may be helpful The soul which gives itself over to the inner illumination recognizes in itself not only what it was before the illumination; it also recognizes what it has become only through this illumination. The seeing soul cannot be selfish in the sense that it wills only itself. Rudolf Steiner All human souls have come from the womb of the Eternal, and inscribed within them are the ‘samples' of true wisdom, true love, true beauty, true justice, and so on. But as most human beings have not learned to seek out these celestial imprints within themselves and to bring them to life, they remain buried under layers and layers of mistaken opinions, faulty perspectives and depraved desires. With no reference points to guide them, why is it so surprising that people endlessly go astray? It is up to each of us to descend into the depths of our being to find this clarity we so rarely glimpse. By means of reflection, prayer and meditation, by means of a life discipline, we can travel through all the opaque layers and rediscover this light which alone can illuminate our choices. Omraam Aivanhov
1. Spend
5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering
we all want the same things (to be happy and to be
loved) and we are all connected to one another. Emptiness is a remedy for the foundation of all delusions -- ignorance -- so all the other delusions will disappear. The minute one meditates on emptiness, anger for example, will stop. Anger arises when you believe in the false I, false object -- all this that does not exist. So when one meditates on emptiness of the self and other objects, there is no foundation for anger. This is the most powerful antidote. But if it arises again, it is because there is no continuation of the meditation; the meditation, the mindfulness, has stopped. The problem is to remember the technique. Once you remember the technique, it always works. When you don't remember the technique, it is delayed and the delusion, anger and so forth, has already arisen and taken you over. One thing I tell people is always to think about karma. His Holiness always says Buddhists don't believe in God. This basic Buddhist philosophy helps you remember there is no separate mind outside of yours that creates your life, creates you karma. Whatever happens in one's own life comes from one's own mind. These aggregates, all the views of the senses, all of the feelings happiness, sadness and so forth -- your whole world comes from your consciousness. The imprints of past good karma and negative karma left on the consciousness manifest, become actualised. The imprints to have human body, senses, views, aggregates, all the feelings -- everything is realized at this time, and all of it comes from consciousness, from karma. If your meditation on emptiness is not effective, this teaching of karma is very powerful for us ordinary beings. The minute one meditates on karma, there is no room in the mind for anger because there is nothing to blame. Thinking of karma is practicing the basic Buddhist philosophy that there is no creator other than your mind. It is not only a philosophy but a very powerful technique. Anger is based on believing in a creator: somebody created this problem; this happened because of this person. In daily life, when a problem arises, instead of practicing the philosophy of no creator, we act as if there is a creator, that the problem was created by somebody else. Even if we don't use the word God, we still believe someone else created the problem. The minute you think of karma and realize there is no creator, there is no basis for the anger. We need to think: In the past I gave such a harm to sentient beings, therefore I deserve to receive this harm from another sentient being. When you get angry what you are actually saying is you can harm others, but you feel that you should not receive harm from others. This is very illogical. So in this practice you say, 'I deserve this harm.' Another practice is to use this situation to develop compassion: I received this harm because of my karma. Who started all this? It's not because of the other person, it's because of your own actions. You treated other sentient beings this way in the past, that is why you receive harm now; your karma persuaded the person to harm you now. Now this person has a human birth and they harm you because of something you inspired in the past. By harming you now they are creating more negative karma to lose their human rebirth and to be reborn in lower realms. Didn't I make that person get lost in the lower realms? Lama Zopa Rinpoche |
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