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“Before getting angry for the
mistakes of others one should always remember one’s own mistakes.”
- The Mother (Seeds of Light).
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the
Christ by Levi (an excerpt from p.18 of the
introduction):
“Without a foe a soldier never knows
his strength, and thought must be developed by the exercise of strength.
“And so this carnal nature soon
became a foe that man must fight, that he might be the strength of God made
manifest.”
Don’t worry about Pigsy. He’s just
like a mosquito or bad smell you have to put up with a bit. Just try to avoid
him. Leave him to fester in his own swamp. Don’t go near it or get sucked in.
Keep away. He can’t come near you. He’s on a different plane. He’s in the
swamp; you’re in the trees. Good luck to him. Don’t be affected by his
negativity. Ignore him. Be confident and live your life.
Mr. Pigsy can’t handle the idea of
being challenged. He is competitive: only he can confront others. He finds it
humiliating (and especially cannot take the risk of looking like the loser he
is in front of his girlfriend). So he confronted you and he waits to keep you
wary of him and scared in case you ever confront him. And show you what he’d
like to do to you if you do.
The reality is that if he ever does
anything like that he’s going to be the one in danger. He uses his desire to
lose his temper and have power when he’s drunk to impress people and keep men
at bay so he can be gentle (and feeble) the rest of the time. One extreme
protects the other. That’s okay unless the other person is there all the time!
Like living downstairs! Then he thinks that, if you’re scared of him, it will
only take a bit of noise to intimidate you and remind you that he wants to kill
you!
View the demon as a dog. You’re like
a canine defector, exploring your feminine side. That’s why he doesn’t like you
and views you as easy prey he can intimidate. The only remedy, since you no
longer have the physical power and aggression of a dog, is to learn to be more
like a cat, to use the feminine to your advantage. A cat avoids the dog but
doesn’t worry. It can outsmart it. It does its own thing. When it sees the dog
it simply goes elsewhere.
“If you’re not smart, you’d better
be strong.” - Gangs of New York (directed by Martin Scorsese,
2002).
Big Fish
(directed by Tim
Burton, 2003).
In one of the stories of his youth,
Ed Bloom (Ewan McGregor) is attacked by a vicious black wolf upon invading its
territory. But, subsequently, he finds that by throwing a stick in desperation
the wolf actually runs after it and brings it back to him to play some more.
The
older Ed Bloom
(Albert Finney): “It was that night I discovered most things you consider evil
or wicked are simply lonely and lacking in social niceties.”
It turns out that the wolf was his
boss at the circus (Amos Calloway played by Danny DeVito) whom he later finds
naked with the stick in his mouth. The scene is concluded with a funny shot of
Danny DeVito scratching his ear with his foot ecstatically like a dog!
“Above all things be strong and
manly. Physical weakness is at the root of at least a third of our
unhappiness.” - Vivekananda.
The Dhammapada
18. Hasten and Strive.
“Life seems easy for those who
shamelessly are bold and self-assertive, crafty and cunning, sensuously
selfish, wanton and impure, arrogant and insulting, rotting with corruption.
But life seems difficult for those
who peacefully strive for perfection, who free from self-seeking are not
self-assertive, whose life is pure, who see the light.”
“May you have enough happiness to
make you sweet,
Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human,
Enough hope to make you happy.”
- Anon.
Love (channelled from Gildas through
Ruth White I think).
“Love is taken so much for granted
in your world. You use the word so lightly; you have only the one word to cover
so many kinds of feeling. Like truth, love can be compared to a great jewel,
its many facets shining differently as they catch the light, yet each facet
essential to the beauty of the whole. Love is the greatest healer as you know;
it heals both those who receive and those who give. Practise giving love to
your enemies and those people who have irritated you or ‘got under your skin’:
your irritation or hatred are transformed, you yourselves are healed of these
ugly emotions, and who knows what healing can come to the receiver? Because you
cannot SEE results, do not judge that there ARE none.
Love is real. We on this side
can see the different kinds of light which are centred as channels by the many
aspects of love being given and received. Hatred, anger, deceit and all the
negative emotions shows as threads of dark greys, browns and black. These
darker threads cross the channels of light, and can sometimes break or impede
the flow of light. When your times of meditation or quietness are not directed
specifically to any end, turn your thoughts deliberately to love. Think of
friendship, love for an enemy, brotherly love, the love for the mother, love
between lovers; but if you would endeavour to come nearer to one of the
greatest mysteries of all time, meditate upon man’s love for the Creator, and
the Creator’s love for man.” [1]
“Some people weave burlap into the
fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the
picture beautiful and unique.” - Anon.
The Divine Melody
by Osho (Chapter 2,
‘Become a flame,’ 2 January 1977, Buddha Hall, Rajneesh Foundation, Pune, India,
1978).
‘Beloved Master, I Feel So
Frustrated!’
“So what! You must be responsible
for it. If you don't want to feel frustrated then there is no need. You must be
creating it. Nobody else is responsible; if you feel frustrated, you must be
reaping the crop which you go on sowing. But you don't see the relationship. If
you expect too much, you will be frustrated. If you don't want to be
frustrated, don't expect. Live without expectations and there will be no
frustration.
But
people go on expecting; they know no ends to their expectation. Then
frustration comes in - frustration is the shadow of expectation. Frustration is
never the problem, the problem is with expectation. When you feel frustrated
you think that existence is doing something wrong to you. No - you were asking
too much. In fact, ask and you will be frustrated. Any asking is asking too
much. Don't ask, be. And then you will be surprised - whatsoever happens is
good; you have no way to judge it.
I
used to stay with a rich family in Calcutta.
Once I went; the family had come to take me from the airport. The husband was
very sad. I enquired, ‘What is the matter?’ He said, ‘There has been a great
loss.’ Listening to this, his wife started laughing. She said, ‘Don't bother
about what he says. There has been no loss - in fact, there has been a great
profit."
I
was puzzled. I said, ‘You both are here. Please try to explain this riddle to
me.’ The wife said, ‘There is no riddle. He was expecting ten lakh rupees and
he got only five lakh rupees. So he says, ‘Five lakh rupees' loss,' and I say,
‘You have profited’ - but he won't listen, and he is very said.’
When
you expect ten lakh rupees and you get five lakhs you feel frustrated. If you
are not expecting and you get five lakh rupees you are full of joy,
thankfulness, gratitude. Don't expect, and you see your whole life becomes a
joy. Expect, and your whole life becomes a hell. Expectation is the cause. If
you want to change, never start by the effect, start by the cause.
Frustration
is the effect. You can go on fighting with frustration - nothing will happen,
you will become more and more frustrated. Start by the cause, always look for
the cause. Whenever you are feeling miserable, go into it and find out where
the cause is. And then it is up to you. If you want to drop the effect then
avoid the cause; then become aware, more and more aware.
If
you are enjoying frustration...because there are many people who enjoy. There
are many people who enjoy being miserable. In fact, they cannot tolerate
happiness at all. When they are miserable they are happy, when they are happy
they feel very miserable. You laugh at it, but this is a truth about the
majority of people. And again, there are reasons. Whenever you are miserable
you gain something: sympathy, attention. Whenever you are happy nobody shows
any sympathy - in fact, people become jealous. When you are unhappy everybody
is a friend, everybody sympathises with you - even your enemy will sympathise
with you. When you are happy even your friend will become jealous and inimical.
When
you are happy nobody pays any attention to you. People avoid you. In fact, they
start thinking you must be mad: Happy? - who has ever heard of anybody being
happy?...must have gone crazy or something, or must be pretending. When you are
unhappy they accept you. Then they think everything is okay, because this is
how things have to be. And people enjoy your unhappiness, that's why they pay
attention - because whenever you are unhappy they can compare themselves, and
deep down they can feel good - ‘So I am in a better position. People are so
unhappy! - at least I am not that much unhappy. I am unhappy, but not so much.’
He can compare. When you are happy, you bring the man down; he becomes unhappy
looking at your happiness - ‘So you are happy? So you have attained?’ He will
deny, he will create trouble for you.
This
world consists of miserable people, unhappy people. They don't allow any happy
person to live or to exist...
So
if you are going into frustration and you love it and you enjoy it, then go
into it more alert, aware. And enjoy it! Then don't complain, don't create a
contradiction. You love frustration? - love it! Go into it. Become more
artistic about it, decorate it a little more; make new possibilities, new doors
to become more frustrated...if you enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it, then I
don't see the problem. Just go deep into it, watch, and you will find some
expectation hidden behind. Whenever you expect, you are asking for frustration.
Drop expectations.
The
life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment
is such a bliss, such a benediction, because whatsoever God gives is so much.
Then you always feel grateful. But your desires are so much that whatsoever God
gives always looks so little; and you feel frustrated, and you feel complaints,
and you cannot feel grateful. And without gratitude, there is no possibility of
prayer arising in your heart. Gratitude is prayer.”
“Expectation is the root of all
heartache.” - William Shakespeare.
“I am open to the guidance of synchronicity,
and do not let expectations hinder my path.” - The Dalai Lama.
“If you are serious then you cannot
flow. You cannot flow because you have a condition. Innocent laugher: it is
just a way of living! Take laughing as a way of living. Exist as laughter! You
will be absolutely non-serious.” - Osho.
Footnote
1. “It has long been a practice in your mental
hospitals to give everyone heavy medications as a way of controlling them,”
says Lady Kadjina. “You are doing this with your young people by giving the
Ritalin instead of answering and addressing their legitimate concerns, you are
in fact sitting on them. And this is part of what is being done with the
chemtrails. There are too many people asking too many questions-divert them;
give them enough of something to make them ill enough so that their attention
is diverted and they no longer ask questions. It is a fact that ingestion of
chemicals creates an impingement upon the soul's ability to maintain control
over its physical vehicle. And this is the reason for the heavy snows and the
floods and the changes in wind currents that are sudden and dramatic and that
help clear the atmosphere and set free the people so that they can continue to
question and think…The purpose of the government using the chemtrails is to
stop you from going 4th dimensional. So every time you are able to enter into
the 4th dimension, you overthrow the government’s plan. I realise I am
sidestepping the topic, but this is so important. Entering the 4th dimension
during your times of meditation is one thing, but actually using those energies
in a co-creative way with your soul, is a whole different energy. If you do not
access information that you can use in a creative way during your times of
meditation, then all you have accomplished is entering into a relaxation mode.
When you meditate, it is important that you create something specific. One way
would be to use visualisation. Another would be questions and answers directed
to your high self. Communication with your eternal self should be the goal of
meditation, and not simply stepping into the light and relaxing in it. You
should focus upon establishing you nadial connecting systems and your chakra
systems internally and then in your etheric field and then on out into the grid
systems of the galaxy for the purpose of accessing workable, useable information.
And all information that is being given now should be shared information.”
(channelled through Kay, 1
March 2001, www.crawford2000.co.uk/kadj1.htm).
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