Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:03 am

How do we lead a life of fulfillment ?

Embodiments of Love! There is nothing more precious in the world than Time; do not waste even a single minute of it.

People today tend to waste their time in selfish pursuits instead of devoting it to selfless service.

They are eager to receive help from others, but have no desire to be helpful.

There are two types of human beings - the degraded and the sublime.

The degraded are those who seek or receive things from others and not only forget to repay the obligation, but even try to harm those who have helped them.

The sublime are those whose natural trait is to go to the aid of others. If they give a word they will try to honour it, whatever be the difficulties and obstacles.

Through good deeds and sacrifice, foster the feeling of love, get rid of evil traits and lead a worthy life.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 25, 1985.


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Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Wed Dec 21, 2011 4:12 pm

I Do Not Know

If one can really come to that state of saying, "I do not know," it indicates an extraordinary sense of humility;

There is no arrogance of knowledge; there is no self-assertive answer to make an impression.

When you can actually say, "I do not know," which very few are capable of saying, then in that state all fear ceases because all sense of recognition, the search into memory, has come to an end; there is no longer inquiry into the field of the known.

Then comes the extraordinary thing. If you have so far followed what I am talking about, not just verbally, but if you are actually experiencing it, you will find that when you can say, "I do not know," all conditioning has stopped.

And what then is the state of the mind? We are seeking something permanent -permanent in the sense of time, something enduring, everlasting.

We see that everything about us is transient, in flux, being born, withering, and dying, and our search is always to establish something that will endure within the field of the known.

But that which is truly sacred is beyond the measure of time; it is not to be found within the field of the known.

The known operates only through thought, which is the response of memory to challenge.

If I see that, and I want to find out how to end thinking, what am I to do? Surely, I must through self-knowledge, be aware of the whole process of my thinking.

I must see that every thought, however subtle, however lofty, or however ignoble, stupid, has its roots in the known, in memory.

If I see that very clearly, then the mind, when confronted with an immense problem, is capable of saying, "I do not know," because it has no answer.

- J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

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Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:09 am

How does good company help to keep our minds focused on the Divine?

There are two forms of Love. One binds you to the Divine and the other binds you to the world.

The mind is responsible for either of these states. It is like a lock. If you turn the key to the right, the lock opens; If you turn it to the left, it gets locked.

The heart is the key to the lock of the mind. If you turn the key towards the world, you have attachment (bondage).

You must see that desire and hatred do not get lodged in the mind. Bear no ill-will towards anyone. Avoid the company of those who are evil-minded.

Through good company, your bad qualities get diluted, like sewage water that enters the sea. You can thereby raise yourself.

Devotion means giving up all other desires and dedicating all actions and thoughts to the Divine.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 25, 1985.

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Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:13 pm

Beyond the Limitations of Beliefs

To be a theist or an atheist, to me, are both absurd.

If you knew what truth is, what God is, you would neither be a theist nor an atheist, because in that awareness, belief is unnecessary.

It is the man who is not aware, who only hopes and supposes, who looks to belief or to disbelief to support him, and to lead him to act in a particular way.

Now, if you approach it quite differently, you will find out for yourselves, as individuals, something real that is beyond all the limitations of beliefs, beyond the illusion of words.

But that, the discovery of truth, or God, demands great intelligence, which is not assertion of belief or disbelief, but the recognition of the hindrances created by lack of intelligence.

So to discover God or truth -and I say such a thing does exist, I have realized it- to recognize that, to realize that, the mind must be free of all the hindrances which have been created throughout the ages, based on self-protection and security.

You cannot be free of security, by merely saying that you are free.

To penetrate the walls of these hindrances, you need to have a great deal of intelligence, not mere intellect.

Intelligence, to me, is mind and heart in full harmony; and then you will find out for yourself, without asking anyone, what that reality is.

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Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:52 am

How do we live a blessed, divine life ?

The Divine is not separate from you. You are the Divine. This conviction must grow in you.

In the beginning you regard yourself as a mere human being. Then gradually you realize your potential divinity. Finally you realize your own inner Divinity.

Embark on this journey to attain union with the Divine from now. Time waits for no one. Concentrate all your efforts to realize Him.

The primary requisite is the elimination of the ego; without this, the bliss of Divinity cannot be experienced.

Ostentatious worship, wealth, power and position will not help you in the spiritual quest. They cannot confer peace or remove the fear that haunts man all the time.

Only the man of faith is completely free from fear. Hence develop faith in the Divine and lead a Divine-directed life.

The one who is conscious of one’s faults is blessed. Equally blessed are those who see the good in others.

- Divine Discourse, Dec 25, 1987

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Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:49 am

Free from the Net of Time

Without meditation, there is no self-knowledge; without self-knowledge, there is no meditation. So you must begin to know what you are.

You cannot go far without beginning near, without understanding your daily process of thought, feeling, and action.

In other words, thought must understand its own working, and when you see yourself in operation, you will observe that thought moves from the known to the known.

You cannot think about the unknown. That which you know is not real because what you know is only in time.

To be free from the net of time is the important concern, not to think about the unknown, because you cannot think about the unknown.

The answers to your prayers are of the known. To receive the unknown, the mind itself must become the unknown. T

he mind is the result of the thought process, the result of time, and this thought process must come to an end.

The mind cannot think of that which is eternal, timeless; therefore, the mind must be free of time, the time process of the mind must be dissolved.

Only when the mind is completely free from yesterday, and is therefore not using the present as a means to the future, is it capable of receiving the eternal.

Therefore, our concern in meditation is to know oneself, not only superficially, but the whole content of the inner, hidden consciousness.

Without knowing all that and being free of its conditioning, you cannot possibly go beyond the mind's limits. That is why the thought process must cease, and for this cessation there must be knowledge of oneself.

Therefore meditation is the beginning of wisdom, which is the understanding of one's own mind and heart.

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Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:00 pm

You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling.

The more joyful you are, the longer you live.

Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.

The optimum physical life experience, is to have plenty of things that stimulate you to desire, and an awareness of the way you feel, so you're reaching for thoughts that feel good—so you're wide open, so you're tuned in, tapped in, and turned on.

We promise you, the timing of your death is always chosen by you.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Chicago, IL on Saturday, September 7th, 2002 # 296

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Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Sat Dec 24, 2011 7:23 am

Meditation

I am going step-by-step into what is meditation. Please don't wait till the end, hoping to have a complete description of how to meditate. What we are doing now is part of meditation.

Now, what one has to do is to be aware of the thinker, and not try to resolve the contradiction and bring about an integration between thought and the thinker.

The thinker is the psychological entity who has accumulated experience as knowledge; he is the time-bound center, that is the result of ever-changing environmental influence, and from this center he looks, he listens, he experiences.

As long as one does not understand the structure and the anatomy of this center, there must always be conflict, and a mind in conflict cannot possibly understand the depth and the beauty of meditation.

In meditation, there can be no thinker, which means that thought must come to an end - the thought that is urged forward by the desire to achieve a result.

Meditation has nothing to do with achieving a result. It is not a matter of breathing in a particular way, or looking at your nose, or awakening the power to perform certain tricks, or any of the rest of that immature nonsense.

Meditation is not something apart from life. When you are driving a car or sitting in a bus, when you are chatting aimlessly, when you are walking by yourself in a wood or watching a butterfly being carried along by the wind; to be choicelessly aware of all that is part of meditation.

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Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Sun Dec 25, 2011 8:46 am

Know the Whole Content of One Thought

Not being anything, is the beginning of freedom.

So if you are capable of feeling, of going into this you will find, as you become aware, that you are not free, that you are bound to very many different things, and that at the same time, the mind hopes to be free.

And you can see that the two are contradictory. So the mind has to investigate why it clings to anything.

All this implies hard work. It is much more arduous than going to an office, than any physical labour, than all the sciences put together.

Because the humble, intelligent mind is concerned with itself without being self-centered; therefore it has to be extraordinarily alert, aware, and that means real hard work every day, every hour, every minute.

This demands insistent work because freedom does not come easily. Everything impedes -your wife, your husband, your son, your neighbor, your Gods, your religions, your tradition.

All these impede you, but you have created them because you want security. And the mind that is seeking security can never find it.

If you have watched a little in the world, you know there is no such thing as security. The wife dies, the husband dies, the son runs away,something happens.

Life is not static, though we would like to make it so. No relationship is static because all life is movement.

That is a thing to be grasped, the truth to be seen, felt, not something to be argued about.

Then you will see, as you begin to investigate, that it is really a process of meditation.But do not be mesmerized by that word.

To be aware of every thought, to know from what source it springs and what is its intention, that is meditation.

And to know the whole content of one thought reveals the whole process of the mind.

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Re: Life 13 (Oct 11 - Dec 11)

Postby winston » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:33 am

Igniting the Flame of Self-Awareness

If you find it difficult to be aware, then experiment with writing down every thought and feeling that arises throughout the day;

Write down your reactions of jealousy, envy, vanity, sensuality, the intentions behind your words, and so on.

Spend some time before breakfast in writing them down, which may necessitate going to bed earlier and putting aside some social affair.

If you write these things down whenever you can, and in the evening before sleeping, look over all that you have written during the day,

Study and examine it without judgment, without condemnation and you will begin to discover the hidden causes of your thoughts and feelings, desires and words.

Now, the important thing in this is to study with free intelligence, what you have written down, and in studying it you will become aware of your own state.

In the flame of self-awareness, of self-knowledge, the causes of conflict are discovered and consumed.

You should continue to write down your thoughts and feelings, intentions and reactions, not once or twice, but for a considerable number of days, until you are able to be aware of them instantly.

Meditation is not only constant self-awareness, but constant abandonment of the self.

Out of right thinking there is meditation, from which there comes the tranquility of wisdom; and in that serenity the highest is realized.

Writing down what one thinks and feels, one's desires and reactions, brings about an inward awareness, the cooperation of the unconscious with the conscious, and this in turn leads to integration and understanding.

- J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

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