You see, hear and feel with your senses as interpreted with the gross mind. To seek the truth you have to go beyond gross mind, even beyond subtle mind to reach a higher level of consciousness. Until you can attain that level of awareness, you're kind of in the dark, the light of your consciousness is dimmed by rational thinking. But, whatever you believe in is your reality, and until you go and search beyond your beliefs, your stuck with it.
It could be argued that our thoughts are our own voice in our head. Sometimes these thoughts can be quite destructive. I remember a Buddhist monk saying to me a while back,
"try to make your mind your best friend instead of your worst enemy, the mind can be a wonderful servant, or a terrible master."
Maybe in general, people do, self cherishing is a difficult habit to break. Those who are more aware realise, giving, not getting is the real path to self worth.
Not sure if he likes the sound of his own voice, but I am sure he likes the sound of his own cash tills...
Emotions are the body's reaction to our thoughts, almost all emotions become somatic, that is to say they are felt in the body. By changing the way we think about a certain situation, we also change the way we respond to that situation. As for how we think about the way we are perceived by others, that's the ego at work, in fact it's the ego that mostly dictates our emotions...bigger, or more active the ego...bigger the reaction to how we respond to others opinions of us.
"I think America is the most dependent country on the planet, we depend on the rest of the world like no other country does. In a way we're like a global economic parasite."
The collective insanity of the human race ensured that during the last century, the number of people who died a violent death at the hands of their fellow humans rose to more than one hundred million, and that figure is still rapidly rising in this century. The intelligence of the human mind is tainted by madness. Advances in technology and science have only served to magnify the destructive power that the dysfunctional human mind has had upon the planet, its people and the very nature of the planet itself. Worryingly, this dysfunction is rapidly intensifying and accelerating, we are moving ever closer to the precipice, and those who can't see that are surely part of the madness. If we a a species don't wake up soon, we as a species will be gone from this planet, if not by our own hands, then by the force of nature that created all of us in the first place.
The time for a shift in human consciousness is well overdue.
I do volunteer work for a couple of organisations in my area. I take people out with learning disabilities hill walking and work at a centre for people with various forms of mental illness. Also will be starting some volunteer work next year for the Woodland Trust.
Intolerance can be a form of suffering, sometimes in order to tolerate a person or situation, just accept and surrender. Having done this your intolerance will be instantly transmute into tolerance and peace of mind. Of course if you find the situation truly intolerable and you have an option to remove yourself from it, then that should be your course of action, but maybe after asking yourself why you found it intolerable in the first place. But, if nothing can be done and you have to remain in the situation and you want to end your suffering, the only option is to accept it fully and unconditionally...peace of mind will follow.
It used to be possible to view all post history by clicking next to the profile pics, but this changed for some reason about two years ago. Now you have to go to a persons profile and click my forums to view every page of their post history.
The belief that the body and consciousness are one of the same was strengthened by Descartes statement, when he said, "I think, therefore I am." It took almost three hundred years before John Paul Sartre saw something in that statement that Descartes and everyone else had missed. His statement was much closer to the truth..."The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks." Ironically though, Sartre was not aware of the true significance of his own statement.
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RE: Word to Live By - Part 3
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.Anthony de Mello