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"Every victory is also a defeat."
- Gloria Swanson.
He should know that if I take
revenge it will be extreme because he’ll get everything at once. But, it’s not
revenge. It’s just a method to stop him.
Just
be.
You must believe in non-violence. Be
gentle. Be firm. Like a tree. Absorb and transform all negative energy. Be at
peace within yourself and try not to be affected by others. Don’t be afraid -
like a machine gun even! No emotion. This way takes a long time, but eventually
gentleness wears down the aggressor. They find they are only fighting themselves as you are not engaging - either
aggressively or fearfully.
Master
Po (Keye Luke): Vengeance
is a water vessel with a hole. It carried nothing but the promise of emptiness.
Young
Caine (Radames
Pera): Shall I then repay injury always with kindness?
Master
Po: Repay injury
with justice and forgiveness, but kindness - always with kindness.
- Kung Fu (Season 1, Episode 4, ‘An Eye For
An Eye,’ 1973. At the end of the episode, an old man yells after the adult
Caine, ‘If I don’t have a right to revenge, who does? to which Caine replies,
simply, ‘No one’).
Angel Card: Tenderness, yet again! I was thinking about Pigsy and what to do
about him. But [a girl] was on my mind, and she demands more tenderness from
me.
Set
an example.
Don’t be afraid because Pigsy is
physical and aggressive. You can’t go down to his level. It is up to him if he
wants to be an animal, a self-centred monster, an ogre. You must be civilised
because you believe in being intelligent and civilised.
If you enjoy being an asshole, good
luck to you, but don’t expect me to be one as well!
William
Wallace (Mel
Gibson): "Every man dies; not every man really lives." - Braveheart (directed by Mel Gibson,
1995).
The circumstances are negative but
you must not engage in negative thought or preparation and fighting is
destructive and violent. You must rise above the physical, not do what you did
when you were young. Use your awareness
to send light. Change the circumstances from within. Deep peace.
He is scared of the Light. So, he is
a fool for attracting your attention. He doesn’t know that you will send him
Light and he will be confronted by his own potential for light and the
suffering of birth into Light.
You must spend more time sending
Light to Pigsy.
Let this guy be a monster and
intimidate you on a physical and psychological level. Let him do his worst
while you do yours - by sending him positive energy, Light. He confronts you
with your physical weakness and you confront him with his spiritual weakness.
This guy is only one man - it’s not
a whole society or army - persecuting or attacking you. It could be much worse.
You have only a nutter and a family to deal with. Shrug it all off. Be happy to
forget the ego and its fears. Relax.
Be gentle. Be aloof. Focus on Light.
“Fear is that little darkroom where
negatives are developed.” – Michael Pritchard.
“From
mental discipline and an alignment to spirit, you begin to control your levels
of fear. As you do, it takes you out of the normal mind set of mankind, which
is very fearful most of the time. You step to a new and more courageous place.
If you step toward your spirit, it embraces you and creates a spiritual cocoon
that gradually expresses itself in your etheric energy, making you safer. As
you touch it and feel it and live within it, its inherent serenity pervades
your being. You move out of the lower oscillations of etheric which removes you
from harm’s way. One thing builds on another.” - Stuart Wilde (Whispering Winds of Change. Perceptions of a
New World, Hay House, Inc., Carlsbad, CA., U.S.,
1993, p.115-116).
Things could be worse. There are
places of real terror in the world, and there was severe poverty and miserable
weather in Britain in the past.
[Retrospective note: It could be
worse: living in a flat underneath a family. I have a friend who has had to
endure that. There were lots of people coming and going all the time, she says.
I forget where she said they were from (being a nice lady, she played it down)
but they never seemed to go to bed. There was always someone walking around.
When she asked them one day if they could be quieter later in the evenings and
pointed out that there always seemed to be someone up, particularly their child
who ran around a lot, they told her that he never went to bed and that none of
them ever slept! She has to wear ear plugs every night because the guy who
lives in the flat above her now gets home late at night and walks around for a
few hours. She cannot figure out what he could possibly be doing pacing up and
down for three hours in a small flat each night! She uses music to let him know
that it is bothering her and he goes quiet after that so she knows he gets the
message. However, she can’t do that if she is already in bed].
You should do the best you can to
meet the challenges and solve the problems in your life but at the same time
express gratitude to God for giving you these opportunities to clear karma and
grow. Instead of being afraid, miserable, complaining - embrace the lessons,
the crises. Endure and grow. Surrender and meet them courageously. Let them
happen. Feel the fear and face them anyway - when you feel strong enough.
“I’ve stopped thinking life should
be easy. It is only through the difficulties and the pain of resolving
situations that I can ever hope to go on growing. It comes down to what
Benjamin Franklin one said: ‘Things which hurt, instruct.’” - Gordon Thomas (Desire and Denial, p.559).
In bed at
4pm
I held my pillow
and thought ‘oh well’
in regards to my entire life.
I held my pillow
and thought ‘oh well’
in regards to my entire life.
- Tao Lin.
The Challenge of Evil
- Channelled by Graham Bernard
(p.140-141).
“Faith is put to the supreme test in
our world and it is what we must focus on mostly here. ‘Although it might seem
as though more is expected of you than you can deliver, help is always at hand
for the asking. In prayer, you are realising the need for help (your true
relationship to God) and the humility that that brings about. The beginning of
understanding is the acceptance of things as they are.’”
End
of June 2002.
Now, someone has thrown lots of
cherry pips on to the patch of soil where I do tai chi! Jealous that I have a
tree full of big, ripe cherries? They’re not from my tree and birds did not do
this. They have eaten them in their garden and thrown them, one-by-one all the
way along. I collected them in a dust pan using a brush. Smiling and thinking,
‘Yes, throw me your rubbish and I can clean it up’ as in the Tibetan book Training the Mind. When there is a
glade in the woods, people dump their rubbish there or they picnic there. They
are attracted to space but don’t respect it. They use it as a dumping ground,
thinking there is no one there. You just have to keep clearing the space.
“It is a man's own mind, not his
enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.” - Buddha.
“Training the mind to be always at
ease, always at peace, that is the definition of a yogi.” – A Tibetan yogi (Yogis of Tibet, directed by Jeffrey M.
Pill, 2002).
“What a yogi or yogini strives to do
is to put an end to the suffering that exists inside cyclic existence. In order
to do that, a yogi or yogini has to train his or her mind. Simply stated, a
yogi or yogini will strive to counter all the negative emotions and try to
generate positive energy.” – A Tibetan yogi (Yogis of Tibet, directed by Jeffrey M. Pill, 2002).
Retrospective
inserts.
"Sticks and stones are hard on
bones
aimed with angry art.
Words can sting like anything
but silence breaks the heart."
- Phyllis Mcginley.
In The Four Agreements, Toltec shaman, Don Miguel Ruiz, reminds us
that misery loves company, meaning that when people are suffering they want
others to know or to pity them, at least show some sympathy, concur with their
beliefs on the subject of their feelings and experience or may even want others
to suffer too so they do not feel so bad. Consequently, one may wish to look
out for a ripple effect in the form of negative feelings, gossip, projection,
harmful intent. Some of us prefer to be alone but actually others’ company and
positive energy can help to shift our consciousness. Our reasons for preferring
to be alone also vary. We may have sunken so deep into a state of darkness that
we feel alienated from the outside world and the way that people generally feel
and behave, like we no longer belong. And we may not wish to inflict our misery
on others or we may feel that we could be in danger of infecting them and
bringing them down too.
Question: What is
the main point for individuals personally to focus on for day-to-day living?
Answer: You have
to deal with what’s wrong in your day-to-day life before you can expect to move
on to higher things. The main point for you to focus on from day to day is to
regain the peace and balance that is suppose[d] to accompany your
enlightenment. To allow for this, my first admonition is to stop creating your
own negative vortices! Your day-to-day living is packed with non-appropriate
reactions to events and other humans. How can you do the work when your
thoughts are preoccupied by emotions caused by these things?...
You have to
concentrate day to day on not reacting to the ‘buttons’ that you have allowed
to be pushed in your minds all these years. Did another human cause you insult
or pain? Did something apparently go incorrectly? Did a person disappoint you?
On a day-to-day basis, get control of these things. You can almost totally void
them! When you do, you will know it. Believe me, you will feel different…This
is the goal: bring peace into your lives so that you can do the work. When you
learn to control your response to previously anxious items, you gain power.
This power lifts you to a place that allows you to do it again and again.
Finally you will also understand that the events around you that seemingly are
not in your control are actually very much in your control.
It is essential that
you learn to recognise these day-to-day things as they happen so that you can
void them one by one. It is also essential that you learn to see the truth
within yourselves about how you have been treating these anxieties. Some humans
are so accustomed to living with these vortices that to be without them
actually creates anxiety and unrest! Peace is a natural state and yet some of
you tend to create your own negative vortices and wallow in them so others will
give you attention. When you are balanced, your guides will give you all the
attention you ever wanted.
This is probably not
the answer you expected from this question and yet it is the appropriate one.
You have asked how to clean the inside of the jar and I have answered that
first you must get control of the lid in order to open it.
–
Kryon (channelled through Lee Carroll, The
End Times (New information for personal peace), Kryon Book 1, The Kryon
Writings, 1992, p.102-103).
PLAY: ‘Bully Boys’ by The Tiger Lillies,
from the CD ‘Shockheaded Peter: A Junk Opera’ (1999), a play adapted from a
series of 19th Century German Short Stories: “a stage production based on the
1850s book Struwwelpeter, a
collection of macabre cautionary tales written by Heinrich Hoffmann, a
psychiatrist frustrated with the era's boring children's stories. Similar to
Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, in
Struwwelpeter, rude, disobedient, and
dirty children meet gruesome ends...the manic oompah of ‘Bully Boys,’ about a
trio of kids who meet their end after annoying the neighbourhood giant.” (www.answers.com/topic/shockheaded-peter-a-junk-opera). (Great song, lyrics and
performance...a YouTube recording on Later with Jools Holland is floating
around...).
a way the surrender to who you really are. It is all right. [Speaking more softly] You are powerful gods and goddesses. You are eternal. You are not going to die when you feel something, although sometimes you are terrified that you will. But you do not, do you?" – P’taah (channelled through Jani King, ‘
"Strength
does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go
through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." –
Gandhi.
“Let the
gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.” - Carl
Sandburg.
Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson): Oh God!
Bills, bills, bills. One is born, one runs up bills, one dies! And what have I
got to show for it? Nothing. A butler's uniform and a slightly effeminate
hairdo! Honestly Baldrick, I sometimes feel like a pelican - whichever way I turn,
I've still got an enormous bill in front of me. Pass the biscuit barrel.
[Baldrick does so] Let's see what's in the kitty shall we? [shakes out a few
coins] Ninepence! Oh God, what are we going to do?
Baldrick (Tony Robinson): Don't
worry Mr. B., I have a cunning plan to solve the problem.
Blackadder: Yes
Baldrick, let us not forget that you tried to solve the problem of your
mother's low ceiling by cutting off her head.
Baldrick: But
this is a really good one. You become a dashing highwayman, then you can pay
all your bills and, on top of that, everyone'll want to sleep with you.
- Blackadder the Third (Series 3, Episode 5, ‘Amy and Amiability,’ written by Ben Elton and Richard
Curtis, BBC TV, 1987).
The
Riddler (Jim Carrey): “You
should have let me in on this. We could have planned it, prepared it, pre-sold
the movie rights!” - Batman Forever
(directed by Joel Schumacher, 1995).
Rik Garrett
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