Adding Helping Others: Rendering Blind

And now if someone comes and insults me, I laugh and I say, 'This boat is also empty.' I close my eyes and I go within. In other words, you are seeking the true you because this is the you that will make the commitment to do what it takes to achieve this goal. Then move from the heart to the being. Maybe use some of the techniques described in Chapter Seven to build your confidence that you will attain your goal.Then, with conviction, commitment, and a one-pointed focus, begin the process of getting what you want. You cannot understand nondoing; you can only understand doing. Remember that there is no death, that the soul is immortal. Then you might share it with others in the organization, such as co-workers or employees, depending on your role in the organization. Don't be soft, don't be vulnerable, otherwise you will be exploited. List whatever comes.If you are interested in making changes in a particular area, such as at work, at home, or in a certain relationship, ask about that. You know your subject matter perfectly and are ready to answer any questions. Use this time to work on achieving the goals you have set for yourself so your practice will help you get what you want. You have collected all that material, which has become so powerful that now it can force you to do things: things in spite of you, things against you. To gain awareness of your personal childhood wounds or suppressed emotions, take some time to reflect and write using the prompts that follow. Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. You barely have to think consciously about doing any of these things because you've done them so frequently that your mind is on autopilot. But those dollars give no satisfaction. Jesus has promised he will come back, and when asked when, he said, Very soon. The air flowing past you and your body become one. Continuously appraising: This is good, this is evil, this will lead to hell, this will lead to heaven. So you can embrace someone, you can take someone close to your chest, but that is not synonymous with taking someone close to your heart. Once you get caught in the beautiful things you are also caught in the ugly things, because mind cannot exist without duality. Once you are relaxed, do the following steps.Concentrate on your breathing for about a minute. But he never recognized how his own can't do thinking of comparing himself to others stalled his career and fueled his bitterness. But if you persist, persevere, the day comes when all these agonies disappear, and behind the agonies is the ecstasy. Make a list of these objects and pick five to ten you want to work on. So the opposite is easy. Everything is so complex and nothing is as complex as sex, because the whole bodymind is involved; only the witness is not involved, only one thing remains always outside. The other side of love is hate; the other side of love is jealousy. Marriage created suspicion. Central to this process is the concept of conditioning, in which beliefs and behaviors are unconsciously imprinted onto us. Can you say something more about the courage and wisdom of the heart, as opposed to the adventurous and scientific qualities of the mind? You are both together. If its color fades you can paint it again. Should she stay in Santa Barbara or move to another city? Then your body becomes crippled. By the right partner I mean that if you have understood a few relationships, if you have been in a few relationships, you will understand which things create miserable situations between you and which situations create a loving, peaceful, happy life. You have everything, but the appetite has disappeared, the hunger and the hope that was driving your struggle all along. Or the technology industry itself, which is now divesting itself of workplaces altogether and instead dispersing many employees to work remotely in their own homes. They become part of the movie, they become identified with some character. It's an innate adaptive response that we learned when we had to face constant threats—in the form of wild animals, famine, and war. Meanwhile, think to yourself, This bill is multiplying itself. Each lover feels it. After I had spoken, the next person was the representative from Sanskrit University. From where? If you start by going for a short walk every day, for example, you'll begin to feel stronger and more capable of taking part in other physical activities. Just like the pendulum of a big clock goes to the extreme left, then to the extreme right. Whatever way you receive information and ideas is fine. Alternatives aren't helpful when you are in an either/or situation in which you have no input, but where options are possible creative brainstorming can help you make better decisions.Creating Inner Focus for Better BrainstormingThis exercise will help you to focus so that you can brainstorm ideas and alternatives most effectively. Why do I fear this new idea or change or particular situation (describe it)? The idiot wants to learn something once and remain with it his whole life. If it can come up to the heart, which is not very difficult—difficult, but not very difficult—if you remain alert you will see it has come to the heart, and when it comes to the heart you will know for the first time what love is. Focus on your breathing for a minute or two to calm down. You are afraid. If you are not your mind, then you cannot be your jealousy, you cannot be your sadness, you cannot be your anger. You simply wait. Then, without trying to consciously answer the question, listen to your inner voice. That's why you were born but don't remember it. It could be a person you know or even someone well-known. Some environmental factors are out of our control—we cannot choose the circumstances of our childhoods, let alone the circumstances of our great-grandparents' childhoods—but many factors are within our control. In some cultures a woman is expected to be more submissive and nurturing, whereas being assertive and independent is more characteristic of women in the United States and Western Europe. That new direction was in the air, available for centuries. And that communion is prayerfulness, in that communion when you say thou there is no woman, there is just godliness; there is no man, there is godliness. It is not. Small things become great disturbances. And when anger is there, you are anger. Our digestion hums away happily, properly dispensing nutrients to our body. Imagine that you are looking at something with a point in its center, such as a long deep hole, a tunnel, or a bull's-eye. It sucks your blood. Just see: you are feeling fear, it is dark and you are alone, and for miles there is nobody. It all works because I go over everything in advance in my mind's eye. First repress the sexual instinct, the natural instinct, and tell people that it is wrong and evil. Have you ever seen dogs killing other dogs? Also, with that belief you'll know you can do whatever is required and will be able to do it. I try to waste my time in this club and that club but finally I have to go back home and there she is. Tadpoles swim by, and above your head birds fly from perch to perch. You don't have much space; you are enclosed in it from every side, and all the doors and all the windows are closed. Should you rent that one-bedroom that is in a better location though it's smaller and more expensive? Fear can become abnormal; then it is pathology. For example, you have been taught never to be angry, and you think that a person who is never angry is bound to be very loving. Or, if you are not moral, then you will suffer hellfire—eternally, remember, forever and forever. Nothing is wrong in your feelings, and nothing is wrong with you! What is needed is not repression or destruction, you have to learn the art of creating harmony in your energies. Just look in the scriptures, with what joy they depict all the tortures, with really great relish! Adolf Hitler must have been reading these scriptures; he must have found such great ideas from these scriptures describing hell. Those who are following the path of knowing, for them sitting Buddha-like, unmoving, will be helpful. He is not going to carry it always and always. What is the investment? The head is barbarous. Transformation means changing energies, moving them toward a new dimension. Think of the old country doctor versus today's general practitioner, who is forced to gaze into her laptop more than into the eyes of her patients. If you are just watchful you will see that there is a relationship, and the relationship is such that you cannot change it. Please note that I am not advocating for a tearing down of the old model; I'm not suggesting that the tools of conventional psychotherapy and other therapeutic models don't have value. Become part of this dance and trust your nature. Or you may see an animal who has come to help you. If the answer is no because the sign seems inconsistent with everything else you are experiencing, investigate it further.If you've learned to read and trust your intuition when you get a positive, good-to-go sign, the final step is moving ahead. If you have been really mad in love, then after it you will fall into a deep sleep, the deepest that you can attain, as if dead; the whole mind stops. Then some other day there is greed, and so on and so forth. I am relaxed.You should now be relaxed. It is a little difficult to be aware of laughter, for two reasons. The windows and doorways are hung with mirrors and small objects that flash and shine in the light. If the husband says, Leave me alone tonight, the wife feels rejected, she feels angry. Einstein has flowered as an absolutely beautiful intelligence—that is the flower that he has to offer to existence.