Rhythms

Giving up is not the answer

2010-08-26T22:18:00.001-07:00

Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.

HP dv4 - My lappy

2010-08-12T22:51:00.001-07:00

Pushing your limits!

2010-08-12T22:45:00.000-07:00

If you aren't pushing your limits, you aren't going far enough, and you still don't know who you are. (Paulo Coelho)

Humor ...

2010-01-03T23:16:00.001-08:00

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Thoughts and Emotions ...

2009-12-29T00:02:00.000-08:00

Just as the ocean has waves, and the sun has rays, so the mind’s own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The ocean has waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them. The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves will rise, but where do they go? Back into the ocean. And where do the waves come from? The ocean.

In the same manner, thoughts and emotions are the radiance and expression of the very nature of the mind. They rise from the mind, but where do they dissolve? Back into the mind. Whatever rises, do not see it as a particular problem. If you do not impulsively react, if you are only patient, it will once again settle into its essential nature.

When you have this understanding, then rising thoughts only enhance your practice. But when you do not understand what they intrinsically are—the radiance of the nature of your mind—then your thoughts become the seed of confusion. So have a spacious, open, and compassionate attitude toward your thoughts and emotions, because in fact your thoughts are your family, the family of your mind. Before them, as Dudjom Rinpoche used to say: “Be like an old wise man, watching a child play.”

Rigpa Glimpse of the Day for Dec 27 2009

There is no armor like perseverance

2009-07-20T00:42:00.001-07:00

Imagine that you had gone all your life without ever washing, and then one day you decide to take a shower. You start scrubbing away, but then watch in horror as the dirt begins to ooze out of the pores of your skin and stream down your body. Something must be wrong: You were supposed to be getting cleaner and all you can see is grime. You panic and fling yourself out of the shower, convinced that you should never have begun. But you only end up even more dirty than before. You have no way of knowing that the wisest thing to do is to be patient and to finish the shower. It may look for a while as if you are getting even dirtier, but if you keep on washing, you will emerge fresh and clean. It’s all a process, the process of purification.

Whenever doubt arises, see it simply as an obstacle, recognize it as an understanding that is calling out to be clarified or unblocked, and know that it is not a fundamental problem but simply a stage in the process of purification and learning. Allow the process to continue and complete itself, and never lose your trust or resolve. This is the way followed by all the great practitioners of the past, who used to say: “There is no armor like perseverance.”

When we do the best we can

2009-06-30T00:37:00.000-07:00

On this day of your life, dear friend, I believe God wants you to know...

...that when we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Hellen Keller said that, and she was right. There is a situation in your life right now where you are being asked to do your best, your very best. Maybe it is in finding forgiveness for another. Or is understanding something that you just haven't been able to understand. Or in accepting what has to this point felt unacceptable.

Whatever that situation (and you know exactly what it is right now) ... are you doing the best that you can? If you are, so be it, and good. Yet if you think you might do better, allow this little nudge today to be your gift from the soul. A miracle awaits if you will reach back now and do your very, very, very best in this.

Patience & Silence

2009-06-16T01:39:00.001-07:00

Patience & Silence are Powerful Energies. Patience makes us Mentally strong. Silence makes us Emotionally strong.

Think twice before you open your mouth!

2009-04-01T07:38:00.000-07:00

Think twice before you open your mouth. Words are like bullets. They are loaded with emotional gunpowder. What comes out of your mind & your mouth is more important than what goes in.

- GMCKS

Two ways of being happy!

2009-03-25T02:33:00.000-07:00

There are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means - either will do - the result in the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous or young and in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are very wise you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.

-Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

Manifest your greatness!

2009-03-25T00:12:00.000-07:00

Practice diligently
Continue to purify yourself
Spread the teachings

Forgive, especially yourselves!

2009-03-22T22:31:00.000-07:00

Let us be strong enough, so we are able to forgive ourselves if we falter...believe me it's much easier to blame yourself. But it requires strength to forgive, especially ourselves!

A quote from Paramhansa Yoganada to think about... "Saints are Sinners that never stopped trying."

Even when they made a mistake they forgave themselves and continued to persevere on the Path of Spirituality. Do as much as you can, but make a genuine effort to better yourself spiritually!

Peace and Grace!

Every Breath I take is a gift from God

2009-03-22T22:29:00.000-07:00

Every breath I take is a gift from God!

The road to success is always under construction

2009-03-22T22:28:00.000-07:00

Winning isn't everything. But wanting to win is.

Don't fight too much. Or the enemy would know your art of war.

If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything.

Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes.

The road to success is always under construction.

Don't fall in love; grow in love.

Mental & Emotional Effort!

2009-03-22T22:27:00.000-07:00

Mental & Emotional Effort means finding the ways and means of overcoming a problem. Be calm and continue pushing ahead.

~ Master Choa Kok Sui

Peace and Stillness!

2009-03-22T22:26:00.000-07:00

Peace and stillness are the great remedy for disease. Catch hold of a peace deep within and push it into the cells of the body. With the peace will come back the health. - The Mother

This is my Decree to you

2009-03-18T00:07:00.000-07:00

Remember and do these. Persevere to keep my Teachings in your Heart. Share it with purity and show it with your life. Continue my work. This is my Decree to you. Transform yourself into a better human being. Be honorable. And forget not the virtues. You must practice and persevere.

-MCKS

Family life

2009-03-18T00:06:00.001-07:00

Family life is one of the fastest ways to Spiritual Development. Inevitably, there is relationship friction. You develop self-sacrifice, self-control, and patience.

-MCKS

Persevere

2009-03-12T05:19:00.001-07:00

To all my Pranic Healers & Arhatic Yoga Practitioners,

Persevere.

Promise me that you will continue to do my work which is the work of my Teacher, Lord Boddhisatva Mei Ling with your soul, heart and mind. That you will skillfully keep to my teachings which are the wisdom of my Great Teacher.

Remember always... the eyes of the heaven are ever watching us. That we may skillfully dispel the darkness of the world and remove the sufferings of humanity with our open hearts and loving hands!

With love and blessings!

Grand Master Choa Kok Sui

Grand Master Choa Kok Sui

2009-03-10T03:12:00.001-07:00

My spiritual teacher

It is okay to be at a place of struggle

2009-03-10T02:58:00.000-07:00

On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...

....that it is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress.

The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign -- and celebrate your struggle.

Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga

2009-02-06T00:28:00.000-08:00

If we practise even 1% of what Grand Master Choa Kok Sui has taught us, there will be a substantial improvement in our lives.

''Know, Remember, Practise and Master the teachings.'' - This is all we need to do!

Tujh mein rab dikhta hain

2009-02-06T00:24:00.000-08:00

Tujh mein rab dikhta hain yaara mein kya karoon
Tujh mein rab dikhta hain yaara mein kya karoon
Sajde sar jhukta hain yaara mein kya karoon
Tujh mein rab dikhta hain yaara mein kya karoon

Taare Zameen Par

2008-03-03T22:55:00.000-08:00

Time is a canvass. Life is an art and happiness the colour you choose to paint.

What matters?

2007-04-15T22:51:00.000-07:00

Do things we intensely aspire for throughout a long duration in our existence - wealth, relationships, desire for this and that and etc and etc really matter? Or are they tools of God to make us understand the transience nature of existence? And be aware. Learn our lessons. Be aware of God and work to ultimately go near him?

Perspectives

2006-07-07T02:42:00.000-07:00

Perspective: A way of thinking about something, especially one which is influenced by the type of person you are or by your experiences.
--The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online

It's interesting to think how our perspectives are clouded by our experiences and what these experiences have made us as individuals. While the reasons are no longer there, we continue to think, feel, react and act the same old way. Take care of what plays inside. It determines how you see the play outside.

Madras!

2006-06-25T23:01:00.000-07:00

When I decided to move to Chennai, I heard various things about the city. There are only three seasons in the city: Hot, hotter and hottest. People are snobs and speak only Tamil even if they know other languages. It's so much polluted and on and on. I have been in Chennai for the last one week. Even though I have stayed only in a company-provided business class hotel, I can say I have got an idea of the city since I have been moving around to locate an appropriate house. There are all sorts of people in here: From Nagpur to Patna. And yes most local people speak only in Tamil and that is because they don't know any other north Indian language. If you know English and are willing to communicate, you can find your way around the city. Pollution levels are like any other cities and after all it's not as bad as it is portrayed to be. People, local people, also go out of their ways to help someone new to the city.

After all it's a country called India.

Hero in your soul

2006-04-21T00:05:00.000-07:00

Good lines by Ayn Rand
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand, Russian-born American Author.

Oumm Ganeshaya Namah!

2006-04-20T03:30:00.000-07:00

Music

2005-12-24T11:18:00.000-08:00

Music can be so much harmony and so much cacophony. A direct communication with God and your soul and so much a thing that disturbs you. Whatever, it affects and goes very deep. Watch out what you play.

Dreams and Destiny

2005-08-18T01:57:00.000-07:00

Everything has a purpose. Our lives too. You may call it your calling in life, your destiny, dreams, aspirations or whatever. But it is important that we are aware of it, accept, find, acknowledge and live it. Fulfilment and life starts the day you start working for your dreams. Have you found your calling in life?

How Low Can One Go?

2005-08-08T02:50:00.000-07:00

Or how high? Life is indeed amazing! It takes turns and twists that you would never have the brains to think it would. God, almighty, is so creative! This morning I also read a rather beautiful line: Even disaster can be funny. Contradictions abound in this world. A well-deserved reward never comes and when things don't go fine they tend to make few more things like them. But as they say experience is a great teacher. Very cliched! Very true! Ultimately, it boils down to whether we learn a lesson. The kind of lesson we learn decides what we become in the process.

Difficult to digest facts are a sign that you leave no scope for the facts to be recreated ever again. Sometimes, it's too dark and it's only a sign that the dawn is about to break...

From a Friend

2005-08-07T23:46:00.000-07:00

No Problem Lasts Forever

No problem lasts forever. No matter how permanently fixed in the center of our lives it may seem, whatever we experience in this ever-changing life is sure to pass. Even pain.

Difficult situations often bring out qualities in us that otherwise might not have risen to the surface, such as courage and faith.

All of our experiences can help us to grow. But we may need patience.

Understanding...

2005-06-28T04:24:00.000-07:00

What does understanding mean in the context of a relationship? Does that mean two people understand each other's feelings, emotions, pains and pleasures -- at the mental level -- or is it an intuitive acceptance of another person -- the total person?

It's All About the Choices You Make

2005-06-24T00:25:00.000-07:00

Small choices make a big difference in life. Every day, every hour and every second -- consciously and unconsciously -- we make choices. Whether to go for a positive life or a negative one. If you don't climb a huge, challenging mountain several times in your heart, before you actually climb it once -- you might never be able to climb it. It's all about how you think, choose and take things as they come.

Loss of a job can be very frustrating. But is it really so? Really? `You' are never your `job'. God didn't send you on planet Earth to do a job. There must be a greater purpose -- what we call our `calling'. And that is something no once can ever take from you...

First Day Last Show

2005-06-16T03:43:00.000-07:00

I love reading. And writing is a different experience from reading. Trying to post a comment on my friend's blog, I have created this blog for myself. I have named it The Alchemist as that is my all-time favourite book. May be I write a lot and create my space in the cyberspace.