Brief Lesson in Understanding
Written and translated from Hebrew by Moriya.
Edited by CC Saint-Clair and published under the sponsorship of Moriya.
Copyright by Moriya, 2009
Let's begin with a Sufi story:
There was once a king who enjoyed the company of his trusted friend, a Sufi. One day the king said, "Look, love and trust you as much as I love and trust of my soul." Please, "he said, looking into the eyes of man," I would like to give a gift, so ask what you want, even half my kingdom. "
The Sufi replied, "My king, I do not want for anything."
"Please ask anything you want and will be granted."
The Sufi said softly, "Thank you, but I honestly do not want anymore of what we already have. "
Both men stood their ground until finally the wise man turned and said: "There is a question I would like ask?
"But, of course," replied the king.
"Imagine you have been separated from his men and lost in the desert. There is no living soul around. High in the sky, the sun is hot in his head. There are no shrubs in the language to find shelter.Your feels so dry and dusty as the hair of his camel tail.Then, an apparition appears in front of you and offers me a glass of cold water to you. It can be reached, but before releasing the vessel, the appearance proposes a deal. A glass of cold water for half of his kingdom. My King, would you agree with the deal?
"Of course!" Said the Rey.
"Then," continued the wise man, "why would I need something that is valued as much as a glass of water?"
Therefore, What is the message of this story?
The message is that according to the quantity, at a given time, we appreciate every aspect of one thing over another, is attached an arbitrary emotional value to this area while not all agree.
Look at it this way: if we were in a desperate situation in the desert Lost and presumed dead, most of us, in fact, be willing to make a deal – any deal – with anyone who has a symbolic cup of cold water for us.
Interestingly, if lost in a blizzard in the Arctic and dying of hypothermia, which would be more eagerly accept a lifeguard would not be a glass cold water, but a glass of brandy, however, clearly, while in the dry desert glass of brandy not quench our thirst and could accelerate our departure from this land.
However, we are talking about the same glass of cold water – no change in their properties – if offered in the context of the desert or in the context of a frozen landscape.
Depending on our need – whether real or imagined – the value we attach to the glass of water is totally arbitrary and completely of your choice.
Similarly, when a donation to charity the clothes that no longer want, people accept these items is set a value to them when, for us, and there was none.
Why, these men and women could even wear this shirt, the skirt, tie, Shabbath with pride at the next Bar Mitzvah to attend its next job interview or your next birthday party.
You could say that one person trash is another treasure.
When we value an item on another, either an object or a human being, created the separation – in doing so, we disagree and conflict because things are inseparable in their essence.
Any attempt to give greater value to an element over another causes internal friction which is expressed through an external conflict, or violent behavior, whether against other or against me. This conflict can also be expressed as a disease or cause an accident *. *
All individual conflicts recorded in history has emerged a value attached to material things of this world, as well as to ideas, concepts, emotions and desires. Thus, separate them completely.
The action / reaction conflicts of internal / external conflict always repeats itself, simply because there can never be a firm agreement among people about the value of any specific thing or any particular individual they value, and the reward they are willing to pay for them.
Some spend a fortune on a car. Others spend a fortune on a table, a diamond in a stamp collection, on a rug or even in another human being. Some prefer not to pay for these items that they, too, the value. They prefer to steal * * While others would give a thousand pieces of owning such a thing, then, for whatever reason, they do not value such objects.
For example, as mere objects, places and people gain religious significance, but also produce an added value – that of holiness.
Symbolic attachment to holiness leads to conflicts between individuals, religious wars and war between nations.
The real essence of life – physical, the unity of all – is inseparable from the whole. Not only aspect of it can be modified in any way. The value we attach to everything that has been created – from the individuals selected objects, alive or dead – is as arbitrary as the value attached to the glass of water in the opening fable.
Any conflict is proof that we humans are trying to separate what is a indivisible whole and parts, while the natural state of all – conceived as a whole – to realign itself in a whole doomed.
The most stronger attachment to any separate element of a whole – whether in the name of a god, idealism, patriotism, authoritarianism or freedom – the stronger is the possible backlash be.
You need to understand that battles merciless at any level are always born of a single purpose personal internal conflict.
All events all objects are naturally neutral – Son.
They have no intrinsic value. They are neither good nor bad. They simply exist, but we, the ego characters arbitrarily decide what should be cherished or rejected, what is good and what is bad, according to the social, emotional insecurities our collective and our use of objects, thoughts and doctrines – personal and public alike.
Each act intended to "push" to manipulate, in a predetermined direction by the self, is always caused by a tee shot at the other end before it settles back into its original wholeness.
Love, by contrast, is an emotion pure and beautiful – but only to the extent that we accept our loved ones as they are without trying to mold them to suit our desires and insecurities.
To the peacefully accept our circumstances as they are, spontaneous flow of cosmic love energy remains constant, for it recovers spontaneously. The more we like to share with others, the wider this cosmic energy and spreads.
Needless to say we're not talking here about simplistic, feel good hippie flower power and propensity to embrace the New Age and verbally indicating acceptance and love. Nor are we talking to convince ourselves that we "do" love through the repetition of mantras simplistic.
When we demand that love, an emotion so fragile beautiful, must be expressed in any particular way in order to satisfy our ego – selfish and insecure by nature – the reaction against the beloved is a nuisance over time often becomes direct hatred, which often leads to cessation of the spontaneous flow of love, if not the physical separation.
It is this burden negative karma is transformed into a "blow to the head" of the author through one internal / external conflict.
What is a loss, a "Accident, bad luck, an act of violence or disease, if not the realization of the negative charge?
Take for instance the case of a fundamentalist epicurianism end that again. Such imbalance would create erratic behavior as a twist energetic cosmic energy flow would be severely restricted. This would lay the groundwork for a new interior / exterior conflict.
The first reality is that we are souls – souls incarnated in our bodies hidden.
The second reality is that all souls are love and, as such, our true purpose in life is to love one another unconditionally.
A third reality is that the source of all conflict and enmity is always based on our hunger for love and our inability to satisfy.
We, human beings are a combination of a body and a soul. When only the body's needs are satisfied, hunger deepens our lonely soul accordingly and this is where, as a civilization, we mistaken in thinking that the satisfaction of the body, the person with more money in the bank, a promotion, more frequent and better sex, more entertainment, life more exciting, more exotic foods – increasingly on what is inside the material and within our reach – would solve the problem.
Instead to feel satisfied with the weather we have, we give ourselves to a constant craving more – and there is always more "out there that the media are trying to sell. The more we surrender to our base needs more solitude and deepen our soul hunger. Over time, the person becomes miserable, emotionally unhealthy and ultimately physical sickness.
The main problem of our civilization is that we have never
understood that the lines connecting link our actions in the material to the spiritual world and our deficit to our emotional stress and physical ailments.
When the world became, all creation – mineral, animal, plants, humans, stars, suns, etc – was born from the primeval matter. The "world events" in which we live is, therefore, a complete world in which nothing can be altered.
The wood can be made of iron. Fish can not become the flora. Each creation has been given to humanity in its complete form. Therefore, there is no possibility of ever changing anything in our outer physical world.
Air pollution, greenhouse gases, pollution of rivers and seas, the hole in the ozone layer, melting ice caps and toxic waste and as the side effects of 'major' food are the result of scientists 'progress'. Scientists take the whole matter and change their properties to invent an improved version of the original.
The world could be seen as a big puzzle in which all parts are interrelated and each performs a function without the puzzle can not be everything.
So while there is general agreement that the contribution of an individual placed on the step lowest in society is minimal, this is a grave error.
Without these people in our midst, the nature of the puzzle would be affected. His absence, if removed from the equation, would cause a serious imbalance that would affect the whole society.
It should be understood that everyone living here and now is a valid part and integrated society.
Once again, we are souls in disguise and the phenomenal "world we live in has created us with all the opportunities we need to reveal our true selves to ourselves with the presentation of the mask of the character – that is the only way to experience the fusion of our inseparability and staff infinite fullness.
Take the case of a rabbit. A rabbit can not speak. The best thing she can do is grumble a bit because of an innate inability to shape the sounds in words. If we try to teach a rabbit to talk, even after many years of perseverance, rabbits throat still not allowed to do something rather than growl. The rabbit is a complete animal that is finite.
Back to humans. When we say we have learned "something new, the reality is that we have not learned anything really new at all. What we have to do is remember some of what we already knew.
As human beings, are not complete, creatures like the rabbit fixed. We are able to "learn" by the internalization of something that a minute ago, was totally unknown to us. When we "Remember" who have access to background. The ability to learn and to understand that means that is innate in us and that is unlimited.
Soul speaks to us through symbols. Understanding these symbols is a necessity. When we see the world through our eyes, we see images formed by a large number of symbols our analysis of the brain through the words.
While remaining within the framework of the picture, the experience of living in peace and harmony with ourselves and each other.
However, when we interpret what we see with words, always giving a greater or lesser value to one aspect or another, we create separation. Separation of friction and friction promotes leads to another conflict.
Alma is Love, Truth and faith. Therefore, in their nature to want the merger with all infinite and eternal. The ego-personality, a mere instrument, is a mechanical system designed to serve the soul as being a channel between it and the body, so that our soul can look at the world through eyes that see the union and unconditional love.
Each one of us always about the cards they need to succeed in this difficult task, but all our difficulties in the spring of life of our refusal to accept our soul as our Lord and our resistance to change what is be modified. They were exacerbated by our obstinacy flow in a direction that is opposite to the flow of life – directing unilateral separation.
When a soul is reincarnated in a newborn in a specific family, is the signal to parents that it is time for them to overcome any personal conflicts small to clean the channel between your character and your inner self no – to be hypnotized by their own individual needs and fears – react mechanically to each of the moments thorn of life.
The arrival of a newborn soul in their lives is the signal that the time has come for these adults to learn about his true identity to observe their own reactions and to refrain from interfering.
The arrival of a newborn is the signal to indulge in what is, to accept a comprehensive way and give unconditionally. The more the parents will be able to give, especially when things are messy and difficult, more acceptance grow, the more your energy will be renewed and will evolve and increase in the level of spirituality.
The world is the stage where the actors make our game – the work we writing – the work that is directed – the game where we are leading and supporting actors. Reflect our lack of awareness by projecting papers we play in others and blame them.
When we give someone an important role in our game, we complained that s / he is taking over our life and when we give someone a secondary role, we complain that s / he has no interest in your life or that s / he has little time for us. However, all the time the problem is ours.
By separating, accept / reject people based on our perception of the role, we are so absorbed by us same, so controlled by the past, they block. Exclude them from sharing our personal experiences. We then complain that nobody loves us, that nobody cares for us, when in fact we who have separated from the whole.
Every time you struggle with any of our past experiences, we are not "here" – That are not present in "this" moment. However, it is only when there is a possibility to participate fully in harmony, in our own game, because it contains the time every moment and those who never ever – that is eternity.
The spiritual path is not a form of isolation or disconnection the outside world. It is the way of harmony in everyday life. In this context, harmony is to be passive. No "means to do", but with only to do in each moment and nothing more. This means not falling into the past, not relying on the anticipation of a rosy future that never comes.
Anything that distracts the mind reels at the time this takes us back to the past or an imagined future. Anyway, we are not living at all times. In reality, life is reduced to only the present moment – is not linked to the moment that preceded it, and is not bound to the time that lies ahead.
To be the time is almost unbearable, a Sisyphean task, but it is a task that yields its own rewards. Laguna means to be an inseparable part of the cosmic energy around us. This energy is the unconditional love and infinite.
This energy ebbs and flows harmoniously with each act of giving and receiving. In this way, are conducted things, as if of their own volition. They are produced in a timely manner and on the right track. They fall into place in the best possible circumstances that may exist at a time given.
The sea has waves on the shore again and again without stopping for a moment, symbolizes the ego in our daily activities. The incessant roar, the spray, gloss reflections in the water – they all create the illusion of an infinite movement, agitated, while in reality all this activity only serves to conceal the true essence at the bottom of the sea where life exists outside of the eye that sees.
For us, as for the sea, all our activities are visible on the surface.
Activities done mechanically daily blind our inner vision, and lead to the illusion that the real world is a matter which we see through the eyes of our character.
The insatiable hunger for love remains intact and no achievement, however great – no win, but tight – there is no object, regardless of value – never fill the void created formidable within us.
The dependence of the crutches we rely on many, as our work, our money, our social position, our reputation, our achievements as well as alcohol, entertainment, sex, shopping, etc, can not lift a person beyond the limits the narrow self.
Our hunger for a union with our infinite, without limits only make us more dependent on such crutches, with the above all hope being released and free standing.
The more you try to control the times and events, the more you enslave us – the more you hang around his neck as a burden iron.
It's for a good reason that the Talmud is written: "make a slave to earn a master."
The insatiable hunger leads error to its source and put the emphasis on physical appearance: the expansion of personal property distorts reality, and instead of letting our soul guides us, the reins are held by the person who may never be satisfied because, as a limited tool, for its very survival is dependent on external energy to your car. The person absorbs this energy around and placed by using willpower or desire – most powerful tools of the speaker.
The more materialistic of the person, the greatest need will have to absorb more of this energy to stay alive until, eventually, wants out of control will take your self-destruction.
the raw material tends to behave according to the law of attraction of the earth, and weighs who leans toward lower gross physical desires while forgetting its divine origin, as in an old story about the Children of God, who descended to Earth. It is said he fell in love with the daughters of men. They became in soabsorbed with lustful desires and energies lower than had become unable to use their wings.
The moral of this story is that we, pure souls, are trapped inside a body that exists only to satisfy their base desires. The "desired body – our strength of will – no different from a" loose canon " and systematically leads the soul to let others fail.
Our soul is an inseparable part of God. As such, our soul is united to all other souls an eternal draw. All souls belong to a higher dimension – one in which the energies are much more sensitive and stronger than the earthbound characters – What souls are stronger and stronger than anything imaginable.
The term "higher dimension" does not mean that there is a world beyond the other, the highest stacked on top of the bottom. In fact, there are worlds within each other like Russian dolls, and the higher the most inner worlds. They are what give the essence, content and energy to the bottom, the worlds most rude. This works exactly like a motor which sets in motion the entire vehicle, but is hidden from the eyes of the beholder. The higher is one of personal spiritual elevation, the stronger of energy power and therefore, the greater the individual's ability to control the lower levels of the personality.
Faith means security. Have faith in our soul means that trust-destroying energies at all levels and, consequently, the events are expressed with the speed of light. The person only has to ask – and the request be granted immediately. When all locks are removed, all given to us in time, and there is no need to exert pressure on any aspect of our lives. All flows around us just like the breeze.
The wind is the symbol of life on Earth. Without it there would be no life on our planet. When the wind blows gently inspires softness, tenderness and evokes the feeling of nurturing touch, comforting.
Even the leaf will not fall off the tree. But when the wind blows strong, which uproots the trees and destroy homes. Bring dark clouds over the release of the heavy rains that flooded the floor, as if all the forces of nature joined into a single entity with the aim of clearing the land of some of the filth that has stuck to it since time immemorial.
Walking the Spiritual Path is difficult because the person has to change its mechanical behavior by letting go and surrender to Alma.
From childhood on, modern society teaches us to be competitive, a high performer, one that controls its own destiny, speaking in all its aspects, is a good practice. However, these behaviors lead to violence against the order and violence against others – in one form or another.
There is no competition on the path. If you are not giving your brother a helping hand, in the fullness of time creeps back. The spiritual path is a path of sacrifice, to infinity, of always being available to others. Is the way of open heart.
Our constant desire to "reach" and "win" over others is not merely a symptom of our infinite hunger for love. This modern form of begging will never be the key to opening the heart – even after having achieved all that can be achieved. Even if all the medals you can win have cattle.
All that is alive on Earth – plants, animals and human beings – is reacting to the voice of the heart. Alma will not be satisfied with a love that is conditional.
In our culture, the rich are both beggars and poor. His compulsion to collect objects, properties and money has its roots in the same hunger air for love.
You could say that every work of art is an imitation that one of Life and Nature. The fact that today, works of art are praised above all in terms of financial value, says it all.
Thousands of charities collect donations to deliver the money that is not theirs. His line business takes them praise, appreciation and love. Anyway, the confusion between the objective and means is the reason why these organizations are not meeting its mission of lifting the poor out of hunger and institutionalize dependency.
These organizations only create an inability of both parties – a mutual dependency on crutches emotionally. Money is a neutral matter as any other matter. In itself, money is neither good nor bad but the energy around money, which is only used as a commodity rather than a channel for love between social organizations and their beneficiaries, it gets dirty.
Because the person is a limited system, you need a constant renewal of energy out of it and she sucks the other, mainly through control of them. Alma, however, is an inseparable part of cosmic energy and, as such, it replaces – The more you give, the fuller it becomes. Such is the magic of the soul and this is the secret of the soul.
Life is a constant flow at infinity, and nature is reflected. Within this infinite stream, humans have created a cocoon within which governments have been established, culture, religious centers, and also all kinds of rules. From generation to generation, have taught their children to find happiness inside of this artificial construction society – an exercise equal to swim against the current. It's enough to see what happens in America when a cyclone swept through the elimination of all obstructions in its path – be it a building, a tree, a car or train.
The accusing finger is always pointed in the forces of nature unleashed reflects our inability to understand that the creation of artificial blocks where the flow is not restricted naturally lead to different behaviors explosives.
So people unnecessary energy use and energy to survive within this artificial cocoon. That power is expressed barely repressed violence inward and outward. Is also expressed in the compulsion to create more buildings and giant shopping malls, as if the creation of larger blocks could never stop the flow of life.
Even the largest dam in the world will not stand the pressure of running water that floods everything that gets in their way. Our powerful armies, equipped with weapons of mass destruction, testify to our ignorance and our blindness.
The most of the repressive system of police in the world only encourages more criminals and more gratuitous violence. Cause and effect are interlinked and inseparable. The mere existence of massive armies creates political tensions and international conflicts because the indoor unit printed on them finally bursts into outer expression.
Huge buildings cause imbalance to distort the energy flow around and through of them. The higher and away from vegetation and the energy of the land we live, the thinner the oxygen we breathe.
The Law of Attraction is not strong enough to prevent physical and neurological symptoms such as loss of balance, dizziness, headaches and other symptoms of discomfort.
Mother Nature has given us everything we need to live healthy: air, water and food, materials for clothing and shelter as well as to prolong life energy. The more we can return to it – the best of our communities will fare.
When, for example, we look at a tree, what see? What do we feel? "We are grateful to the tree for shade under the sun give us? For daily use paper? For furniture that furnishes our homes? For the house we live in? For the beauty that is emitted by all parties, and without which the world would be a scorched desert?
When considering all the treasures of nature – including the wildlife within it – from a purely utilitarian selfish, our lack of vision reduces the world around us of the scale of our needs. What follows are the increasingly stringent requirements designed to serve the immediate desires of the individual, which, if not satisfied, return to erupt in violence one way or another.
Trying to see the world through the eyes of the person limited reduce and trivialize what we do, because the whole is separated into small parties who are not able to absorb and reflect back the whole picture.
When the soul sends a message like "love unconditional know, "the person understands it as" having sex now. "This blind ignorance is what leads men to a prostitute who can" buy love. "Both the prostitute and her clients are hit by a disease that has as its source, the same insatiable hunger for love.
Once again, money is the goods exchanged that unites them. But when the heart is blocked, the money is worthless and it loses its true purpose as a channel that connects people.
Symbolically, the money represents high values of love, compassion, acceptance and giving. As the money passed from hand to hand, gives us a golden opportunity to open our hearts and to provide these high values through its channel.
The best investment of money is in a state of flux. Otherwise, it is moldy and rancid food or stored too long. The more we open heart, plus the value of money grows – Spiritually and physically.
Say a person asks for help and, after getting that help, s / he offers to pay instead of thanks. If you accept money, the exchange of "give and take" will cancel the original intention.
The exchange began as a gesture of goodwill reduced to a mere business transaction and no real change can happen for anyone. The circle of love can not propagate outwards.
However, if the aide says: "No, I do not want money. If you want to pay me back in any way, be kind to someone for free, without any conditions, without waiting thanks. And maybe that person will also do a favor for another person for free, etc. "Then and only then will the world become a better place.
Only then the energy will flow from one person to another – without being blocked at all times. When someone kindly barters his money, his action becomes affected by the disease of greed that defeats the original purpose.
Printed spiritual powers within us are intended to get up again to the rank of angels standing at the time of our creation. The beauty we experience around us reflects the inner beauty of our infinite soul. When the heart is open, the eyes see union, love, faith and truth, because under the different colors of our skin, our ideas and emotions, all are equal. The blood that runs through our veins is red, oxygen our lungs breathing and our body uses food in which we all share from production to consumption.
Spiritual enlightenment means that we understand that – while in the artificial environment people have created and those who fight each other for a piece of bread, land, a sum of money, a better position, a new way to control each other in this way or that way – in the things of real dimension was unchanged, just as that glass of water. They are so smooth and perfect as ever.
About the Author
By day, a teacher of Senior English and French in Brisbane, Australia, and, by night, first a writer of novels and now a writer of spiritual material, I am on a quest of sorts – I am searching for a connection to my soul, right here, right now. Admittedly, I have an ulterior motive – quite a strong one at that: I am trying to edit some karma out of my energy field by altering its properties. This, from me, who a couple of years ago thought about my soul as often as the molecular composition of my body, which was never.
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The Family Tree by Cadwalldr, Carole Edition ILL, 0 $17.99 Rebecca Monroe is terrified of turning into her mother. On the day Lady Diana married Prince Charles, Rebecca?s mother locked herself in the bathroom of 24 Beech Drive and never came out. Was it because the holiday dinner didn?t turn out just right? Because Rebecca?s grandmother married her first cousin? Or was she simply, unalterably unhappy? According to Rebecca?s scientist husband, our genes control our fate, but Rebecca isn?t so sure. Leaving everything to science allows little room for the events that shape our lives. Looking for clues in a family history filled with three generations of mistaken marriages, dubiously fathered children, and hand-me-down sayings, Rebecca discovers she is just one piece of a family history that is still unraveling?and she wonders if events of the past are destined to repeat themselves in her own child?s future. The intertwining relationships of mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and husbands and wives go to the heart of The Family Tree as it transcends the story of one woman and her family to become an indelible and resonant novel in which author Carole Cadwalladr ponders what truly makes us who we are. |
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Family Tree by Delinsky, Barbara Edition , 0 $13.99 Dana Clarke has always longed for the stability of home and family—her own childhood was not an easy one. Now she has married a man she adores who is from a prominent New England family, and she is about to give birth to their first child. But what should be the happiest day of her life becomes the day her world falls apart. Her daughter is born beautiful and healthy, but no one can help noticing the African American traits in her appearance. Dana’s husband, to her great shock and dismay, begins to worry that people will think Dana has had an affair.The only way to repair the damage done is for Dana to track down the father she never knew and to explore the possibility of African American lineage in his family history. Dana’s determination to discover the truth becomes a poignant journey back through her past and her husband’s heritage that unearths secrets rooted in prejudice and fear.Barbara Delinsky’sFamily Treeis an utterly unforgettable novel that asks penetrating questions about race, family, and the choices people make in times of crisis—choices that have profound consequences that can last for generations. |
