Experience and pain

Are our teachers

Difficult to accept without understanding karma and reincarnation

So if you want to understand why you experience so much stress

So much fear

So much pain

Then learn about karma and reincarnation

Learn that what you are you created yourself

What you willl be in the future you are even now creating

Each thought has energy and creates what will be in the future

So you are litterally what your thoughts and actions were some time back

Unfortualtely most of us learn only through pain

We try to avoid pain

We do not want to change or acknowledge the need for change

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Nature does not accept this so more pain until we do

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Experience and pain are our teachers

Mmmmm - 45

Love and hatred

Are the only immortal feelings

But the graduation of tones along the seven by seven scale

Of the whole keyboard of life are numberless

And since it is those two feelings

or, to be correct shall I risk being misunderstood again and say

those two poles of man's soul which is a unity?

That mould the future state of man

Whether for Devachan (heaven) or Avitchi (hell)

then the variety of such states must be inexhaustible

KH

Pharma

Big pharma so called because of it's power and size

Huge industry

Huge profits

Huge manipulations

Check what pills you take

Consider throwing them all away

Consider listening to your body

The more you take the more you rely on them

Ever thought that none of them have been tested against each other?

Meaning there are always but always unintended side effects whenever you take more than one at a time.

Be clear the more you introduce into your system the more you disturb

An amazing and subtle self regulating system

You

Leave the pills in the bottle

Seek out other ways to sustain good health

Choose a life free of snake oil

Keys

We all have them

Ever lost yours?

Quite a shock

What to do

Inconvenience

Hassle

Frustration

Did you have spares hidden away?

With some friend

Your family

Or were you stuck?

Horrible feeling of being totally, but totally inconvenienced

Make some back up keys today

Life can be like that

Going along smoothly and then bang out of the blue something hits you

And what is your back up?

Not a spare life we can't have one of them

We can have protection in the form of our attitude

Our approach to life

Prepare yourself for that shock because for sure it will come one day when you least expect it

Develop flexibility and equanimity

These are truly our keys

Junk

Is something we all collect

One way and another we all have lots of stuff we never use or wear

Even our kitchens are normally filled with spices and other ingredients we will never use

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We keep books we will never read

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Things we will never get round to using or fixing

Why do we do this?

Maybe a throwback to earlier times when things were not so plentiful

If you want to feel free then have a big throw out

Give away all those old clothes

Pass on those books so that others can read them

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It really does feel good to have a mega clear out once in a while

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Try it

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Let go of junk for that is what unused things are.

Nothing wrong

with drink

drugs

sex

in moderation

indeed so,

Most of us go over the top sometimes

indeed so

Ever really thought why you take them?

They make you happy

They give you excitement

A lift

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Release

And over time they change your reality by altering your mind

Each one has a price and unfortunately most of us have paid that price at some time or another

Often we do not realise the price until quite late in the day

So?

Over time they lose their novelty value and with some you need to take more just to get to the same state

Look at yourself are you enjoying life as you thought you would?

If not then consider moving to another state

One where you need no artificial stimulants

Make nature your drug of choice

Change your perceptions

Change your mind

Nature costs less than man made stimulants

It might not sound so much fun

Over time though you find how pleasurable it is

No downside

No recovery necessary from beauty

Just keeps growing

Your choice

Sensory overload

Sound everywhere

Noise everywhere

Visual overload everywhere

Now along come the other sensory elements

Smell and touch

Not a trick is missed to grab our attention

Tune out

Block unnecessary calls for your attention

Take your senses back under your own control

Control who gets your attention

Tune out intrusions

Keep your senses your own

No slack

Camera catches you speeding doing 40 in a 30 zone on a sunny day with no danger in sight.

Photo is taken, you are fined, points are taken, get a few more and you lose your licence.

Constant controls on everything we do increasing day by day

Argument is that terrorism or safety effects are enhanced

Net result is more control on our lives

Means more subtle pressure

Endless remorseless

Never stops

Brave new world

George Orwell's 1984 did not get the half of it

No way out of this situation

On the surface that is

Throughout history man has experienced extreme pressures

This one requires that you learn to go where the cameras cannot follow

Beyond mind where peace and beauty may be found

Yes it has come to this

Peace of mind cannot be found in modern materialism as more and more people are realising

Start learning to control your mind

Then move beyond mind

This is where freedom has always resided

Find your own way

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These controls might not be in your country yet but come they will.

Don't see it

Next time you are right

Consider you might be wrong

More than that you lose, because you do not listen

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When you are busy being right

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You are deaf to other points of view

Can you be wrong?

Or are you stubborn

Is it important that you be right

Is your life built around being right

For many this is the case

Sorry about that because it means that you have a way to go

A long way

Why?

Because anyone who needs to be right has problems with self esteem

Self worth

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Honesty

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Realtiy

Try to let go and be wrong for once

Say sorry

Be wrong

Experience the feeling

Learn about yourself

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Let go of being right

Depressed

Scientists have established that many Europeans became more depressed during the 1950's

In the Second World War this was not the case

Then again they found that this went away to an extent in the 1960's only to reappear in the 1990's.

Today depression is coming earlier with many being depressed by the age of only 26 years old.

OK if this is true are you one such?

If not then fine, if yes then time to sort it.

Depression can be very subtle with people not being aware that they are in depression.

If things look negative to you then check your perceptions with those around you.

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Ask others what they see

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Do they also see things so negatively?.

Only real way out is to alter your understanding of reality.

This rests in your mind.

How to change your mind?

Ah, no easy fix here

Work and more work.

Are you up to this?

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Start by working to fix your attention outside of yourself

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Stop endless thinking about yourself and your problems

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Live in this moment now

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Stay busy with things outside yourself.

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Be disciplined in this