It was the right day and time for us to dance. On a hot summer day we were eagerly waitning for the dark clouds to show up and rain for hours. The one that applies to me is " Don't wait for the storms to pass dance in the rain." This statement took me back to my my little home town in Gujarat where I was born. This is a great Birthday Kevine! There are many wonderful lessons cited by Kevin and that makes it difficult for me to choose a couple of leassons. There is always hope, hope for finding and staying on the Divine Path! Reading, inquiring, reflecting, and implementing the wise teachings from spiritual resources and the weekly satsanga meetings have been very helpful to mefor staying on the path of awakening. Regular practice of mindfulness mediation helps my mind to be calm and clear. What helps me develop an intelligence that goes beyond the senses and thoughts? The light of awareness keeps me awakened. There is always inner light for guidung me on the right path. I am mindful of not repeating the same hurtful cycle of misery.
Ram dass flickery faith how to#
I have learned from my downfall and have learned how to rise up. Have I fallen into the ditch and emotionally hurt myself and others close to me? You bet! Being a humanbeing I have fallem down and ethically done wrong things called sins for which I have paid the price for suffering.
Ram dass flickery faith free#
And this way I will be free from my compulsive thoughts and actions. Who is driving my life? My mind or my senses? If and when I let my senses be my master, my sesnses will pull me down into the ditch of all kinds of pain and suffering, If I let my mind be the master, I will be able to make wise and right choices.
Who controls my sesnses and my thoughts and feelings? My mind. My slavery or freedom depennds on the state of my mind. What helps me stay rooted in love? As I have mentioned before, open- mindedness and open- heartedness, empathic understanding and compassion and humbleness help me stay rooted in love. I have learned not to give up but to persist with compassion and humbleness. If we do not maintain that stand life becomes a battlefield, causing a lot of interanl emotional damage. It is not always easy to maintain equnimity and balance. Differences do not create distances by empathy and compassion-the core components of love. We have been able to maintain our friendship by having an emapthic and open-minded and open-hearted stance.
I have friends with different political and religious ideologies. We need to find a common ground based on emapathic underrstanding and compassion to respect people with different ideologies without fighting and hating.If we do not wake up the future looks very dismal and dark. In the world we live in there is a lot of divsivenes. Love unites people regardless of external or outward differences. It is my experience and understanding that unconditional love can solve world's mutiple problems on different dimensions of life: physical, mental, emotional, relational, natural and environmental.
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