tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84621412024-03-07T00:10:18.247-08:00Coming Full CircleThe Buddha was asked, 'Are you God?'
'No,' he said.
Well, then, what are you?
'Awake'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-9254371330421661292010-11-06T05:38:00.000-07:002010-11-06T05:38:54.145-07:00Great Photography<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Photography is capturing the moments.</div><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Great Photography is capturing the moments between those moments.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-67416248986345234442010-05-01T00:32:00.000-07:002010-05-01T00:32:31.674-07:00Want vs. NeedBoth are desires. The difference between a Want and a Need lies in its source.<br />
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Want arises from the mind. <br />
Need arises from the depth of your heart. <br />
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<i>Know the difference and life gets simpler and enjoyable.</i><br />
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And when the difference is muddy, every decision becomes a struggle and life feels empty.<br />
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Fulfilling your Wants gives you temporary pleasure as they arose from your mind whose nature is flickering and illusory because it can only function with reference to a projected and falsely perceived external reference point. The common analogy given is that of a monkey hopping restlessly from branch to branch of a tree. <br />
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Fulfilling your Needs gives you true and long lasting satisfaction as they arose from the real - your heart. <br />
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Now the million dollar question,<br />
How do you separate the wheat from the chaff?<br />
When you have the doubt, One way I have found is to deliberately procrastinate. Wants will die as the mind that once powered it has now moved on - the Maya has played out - whereas<br />
Your Needs will still have the same energy and spark to them if not more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-70487608375371577152010-04-13T22:31:00.000-07:002010-04-13T22:31:22.291-07:00Pick your Present<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">'Be in the present moment' is another way of saying don't be attached to your thoughts.</span><br />
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When you are attached to your thoughts, you are stuck and vice-versa.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">You are stuck to the story that your mind is playing - sometimes it may be painful and sometimes it may be pleasurable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">This is where it can be deceiving.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">Deceiving because, after all why not be stuck to the pleasurable story.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">Well, the caveat here is that, you can't have just the one, without the other.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">If you develop the habit of sticking to the pleasurable stories, you <i>have</i> to live through the painful ones as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">Being with your thoughts is like living your life from a recorded script. Eating the same kind of food, watching the same kind of movies, responding the same way to events, circumstances and people when you wish you could have done differently - all because that is how you have always been. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">How boring is that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">Above all, you lose the thrill, the magnificence that is present in the present moment. You miss out on the serendipity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">So the first thing to do when you are stuck, is to be aware of the thoughts flowing through your mind - the story that your mind is telling you. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">Awareness is the first step in shifting your inner Self. It is the first step towards getting your life off from autopilot mode and into the present moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">The more you are in the present moment, the freer you will be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">Become aware of your breath, be with each and every activity that you perform, no matter how mundane it may be, be it brushing your teeth or chewing your food or tying your shoes. Start feeling the warmth of the Sun on your exposed skin and the chill of the breeze, listen to the notes of the chirping birds, the smell of grass and the sight of the squirrel and the sparrows in your backyard and finally sink into the silence when the feeling is over.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;"> Being will gradually become a habit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">And of course, be patient and persistent while you work on this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">Have Patience, for your own sake.<br />
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Yeah, really.<br />
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When you get impatient, it is because you are upset that something is not going your way.<br />
Well, whatever it is, here is the bitter truth - you have to work on yourself to get that "something" going your way - no matter what that something is. <br />
This is the way Universe works. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">Here is what the Upanishads say,<br />
As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the atom, so is the universe.</span><br />
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Having said that,<br />
It is easy to get impatient when somebody else has to do the work - crack the whip mentality sets in. Sure, in the external reality, others may have to do the work but way before that you should have done the work in your inner reality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;">Start in you, first and go back in you as well when things are not manifesting or going your way. Work on shifting your state of consciousness to where you can experience your desires as reality. The shift <i>inside</i> is the key.</span><br />
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Now that the tables have turned, how do you feel about being patient?<br />
So, be kind to yourself - Patience, for your own sake :)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 140%;"><br />
</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-83767115136101986912010-02-15T22:32:00.000-08:002010-02-15T22:32:21.969-08:00PerspectivesWhen you teach something that you understand, at first, you realize what you know and that what you know is but one perspective. As your understanding increases, you start seeing how others are perceiving that same thing.<br />
As a teacher, you are in this unique position to witness the various perspectives on the same thing.<br />
Finally you come to the realization that all the perspectives are an illusion arising out of the individual's life stories.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-70127552973340162552010-02-15T21:49:00.000-08:002010-02-15T21:49:06.227-08:00Amazing Technique of the Bottlenose Dolphins<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pQ50PYMXDCQ&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pQ50PYMXDCQ&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-12124354405521924462010-01-20T04:41:00.000-08:002010-02-15T21:54:33.850-08:00De-Stress<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While there are several sources of Stress, the most common one is when</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">when you have a lot of things on your plate and you are struggling to do them.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Stress is good because it is telling you that you do not need to do them all.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You only <i>think </i>you need to do them all.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is room to simplify is what that Stress is telling you.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is hard to get this at first, understandably, because we put those things on our to-do list for some "good" reason.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A good start would be to get a cup of your favorite drink, settle down in a quiet place and take 3 deep breaths first, </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>saying "In" as we breath in and "Out" as we breath out.</b> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For a more detailed exercise, see <a href="http://www.cyber-key.com/mj/meditation_TNH.html">here</a>.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Start going down your to-do list.<br />
And instead of seeing which items to strike off, see what you are trying to accomplish (your goal) with each of those tasks and what that goal means to you right now.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You may conclude that the goal can pushed out and is not as urgent as you thought it should be and in the best case, you may realise that that goal is not important anymore and hence can be struck off completely.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If nothing gives, i.e. if it has to be done and done now,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">there may be a better way to do what you are trying to do.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In other words, Stress is an indicator for you to change your ways.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you heed, you can benefit from it. If not, proceed at your own risk.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is indeed a Zen moment, when you can identify the task that you <i>thought </i>you had to do but when you saw through it, it withered away like it never mattered.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-68103634704232860622009-11-29T21:47:00.000-08:002010-02-15T21:53:42.603-08:00Are you Planning?I might as well ask, "Are you living?"<br />
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I am not going to talk about how planning helps you reach your goal, you know that already, don't you?<br />
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So why else then, do you have to plan?<br />
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Planning is the way to get out of the rut that you are in.<br />
<span style="font-size:85%;">(If you are not in a rut, you <span style="font-style: italic;">are</span> already planning.)</span><br />
Planning is saying <span style="font-style: italic;">actively </span>that,<br />
<ul><li> this is what I want to have</li>
<li> this is what I want to do &<br />
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<li> this is what I want to be</li>
</ul>in my life.<br />
Planning is living life to its fullest.<br />
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When you are not planning, you are giving up control over your life and becoming like a driftwood in a river.<br />
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Two caveats:<br />
I must add, that I am not advocating sweating over every minute detail of your plan.<br />
I would also add that if your plan does not work out, that is fine as well.<br />
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After all, the point of planning is to <span style="font-style: italic;">show your commitment to living your life</span> a certain way.<br />
And that's something to be proud of, in and of itself.<br />
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If you keep doing this, your success rate will certainly increase as you keep tweaking your goals and plans according to your experiences and knowledge you will be gaining every day.<br />
and in no time, you will be on the path of growth.<br />
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Don't confuse 'Goal setting' with 'Planning'.<br />
'Planning the steps' is a much more concrete thing to do and a strong statement you are making. It reflects <span style="font-style: italic;">commitment </span>and that is the key to making things happen in your life.<br />
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Planning clarifies your intentions, helps you focus and brings out <span style="font-style: italic;">what you really want</span>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-21543511383310343422009-07-30T07:38:00.000-07:002009-07-30T07:43:45.270-07:00Two Touching StoriesSource: <a href="http://groups.gaia.com/is_there_a_god/conversations/view/451720">Gaia Groups</a><br /><br />Story #1:<br /><br />A little girl was ill in hospital with a rare blood disorder and was badly in need of a blood donor but a match could not be found. As a last resort, her six year old brother was checked as a match and much to everyones relief, he was. Both his mother and Doctor sat the little boy down and explained how they would like his blood to help his sister so she would not die. The little boy waited a few moments then asked if he could think about it. It wasn't the reaction the mother or Doctor expected but they agreed……<br /><br />The following day the little boy sat in front of the Doctor with his mother and said he agreed to give his sister what she needed. The hospital staff moved quickly for his sister was fading quite fast. So the little boy could understand what was happening, he was placed in a bed next to his sister and so the transfusion began. Quickly, the colour and life began flooding back into the little girl and every one was over joyed. The little boy turned to the Doctor and quietly asked, “How long will it be before I die?”<br /><br />Story #2:<br /><br />“A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime.<br /><br />But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman. “I've been thinking,” he said, “I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone.”Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-59900265941284175292009-07-17T06:36:00.000-07:002009-07-17T07:04:34.091-07:00Do unto others first<div><br /></div><div>A lot of times, we want others to "listen, comply and be" <i>first</i> before </div><div>we "listen, comply, be".</div><div><br /></div><div>If he behaves, then I will.</div><div>She better treat me nice, then I will think about it.</div><div>I will play the game right when you do.</div><div>If she smiles, I will.</div><div><br /></div><div>It never works, does it? irrespective of whether it is with kids or adults.</div><div><br /></div><div>Flip the order.</div><div><br /></div><div>Remember the Golden rule, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:medium;">I would make it explicit, "Do unto others <i><b>first</b></i> as you would have them do unto you."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:medium;">I have heard people say this quote in the context of "Don't do or say hurtful things",</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:medium;">but I think it is underused when it comes to getting things done from others OR</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:medium;">in other words, getting others to "listen, comply and be".</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-51421263165527371812009-05-17T10:16:00.001-07:002009-07-17T07:09:42.846-07:00The Secret to Public speaking<span style="Times New Roman",serif;font-family:Georgia,";">Find who you are.</span><br /><span style="Times New Roman",serif;font-family:Georgia,";">Find what you stand for and what you are about.</span><br /><span style="Times New Roman",serif;font-family:Georgia,";">Find your inner voice.</span><br /><span style="Times New Roman",serif;font-family:Georgia,";">Find your life's meaning or theme.</span><br /><span style="Times New Roman",serif;font-family:Georgia,";">Find your values.</span><br />Find your perspective.<div><br /><span style="Times New Roman",serif;font-family:Georgia,";">It becomes effortless then to talk from who you are. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Whether it is in public speaking or in private social conversations or in personal chats within family, your words become valuable.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-58582237960499659562009-05-07T10:12:00.001-07:002009-05-07T10:12:32.029-07:00Your Gift is waitingYou have a gift and the gift is in hidden behind a challenge that you are having right now.<br />
Solve that challenge and claim that gift. The size of the challenge gives you a clue about the size of <br />
gift.<br />
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As you solve the challenge, document the steps you are taking, irrespective of whether <br />
they are successes are not.<br />
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In the process of overcoming the challenge, use as many resources (people and tools) as necessary.<br />
Invent things, processes as necessary if they don't already exist.<br />
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Remember to document everything.<br />
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By the time you overcome your challenge, you would have already had a impact on others.<br />
That is the ultimate gift.<br />
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If not, publish a book about your journey.<br />
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Sit back and relax. You have now done your job.<br />
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Your next challenge will be arriving shortly.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-65718828399502025282009-04-05T11:51:00.000-07:002009-04-05T11:52:13.428-07:00Creativity, Attitude and a Great Message<object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/JacekUtko_2009-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JacekUtko-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=501"><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/JacekUtko_2009-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/JacekUtko-2009.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=501"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-71618583447304519092009-03-28T07:49:00.000-07:002009-03-28T07:58:53.218-07:00Change is GoodWhy Love Change?<br /><br />Change shuffles things around.<br />Change requires people to Adapt.<br />Adapting to new requires Help.<br />Requirement of Help creates opportunities to Serve.<br />Serving well generates Wealth.<br /><br />Love Change. Serve Others. Become Wealthy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-43730551085328710122008-10-09T00:09:00.000-07:002008-10-09T00:20:50.887-07:00Rinse and Repeat<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">You are what your deep, driving desire is.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">As your desire is, so is your will.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">As your will is, so is your deed.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">As your deed is, so is your destiny.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV 4.5</b></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">So what actions did you repeat today?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">Are they becoming a habit? </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">Are they serving you?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">Are they leading you towards your goal?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">Are they helping you grow?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">Pause and Observe your actions, for they are your destiny.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;">Perform this exercise everyday for a few minutes. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-91555513939897755492008-09-15T21:37:00.000-07:002009-03-28T07:39:24.205-07:00The Trip<div style="text-align: center;"></div>After the trip, I was showing<br /><div>photographs that I took:</div><div></div><div>There were the tall pine trees,</div><div>the Sun rise and the rays shining through</div><div>the holes of the thick blanket of the forest.</div><div></div><div>The mighty Ocean hiding behind the morning fog,</div><div>The omnipresent, rhythmic and tireless waves</div><div>the essence of which I naively thought I captured in a photo.</div><div></div><div>The heart-shaped leaf of a plant, </div><div>its close-ups and the long shots,</div><div>the puddle in the trail going into the woods,</div><div>and a bird making a meal of a worm.</div><div></div><div>Then, came the question,</div><div>"<span style="font-style: italic;">Where are you? We aren't <span style="font-weight: bold;">you </span>in any of the pictures</span>" </div><div></div><div>After a few quiet moments, I said,</div><div>"You just did. Who do you think took all these pictures?"</div><div></div><div style="display: none;">A picture should always be viewed with the photographer in mind<br />A picture is incomplete without the photographer who took it<br />A picture is complete only with the photographer's intention taken into consideration<br />A picture is appreciated fully when the photographer's intention and thoughts are known.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-43324041911419183032008-09-06T08:40:00.001-07:002009-05-14T07:33:49.160-07:00You cannotThe ironic thing is:<br /><div><br />You cannot plan to do a great work<br />You cannot plan to give a great speech</div><div>You cannot plan to improve</div><div>You cannot change your existing habits</div><div>You cannot discipline yourself</div><div>You cannot deliberately work hard</div><div>You cannot plan to have a focus or goal in life</div><div>You cannot improve your finances</div><div>You cannot aspire to be passionate</div><div>You cannot plan to have security in life </div><div>You cannot plan to grow.</div><div>Of course, you cannot plan to be happy and peaceful either.<br /><br /></div><div></div><div>You just cannot.<br /><br /></div><div></div><div>The only thing you can do is<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"> get inspired</span></span></span>.</div><div><div style="color: red;"><i>Fall in love with something and Just do it.<br /><br />Then, you will have given your best and that is Great work. Inspired work.<br /><br /></i></div></div><div>You will then magically "find" yourself </div><div>being passionate, working hard towards a goal and growing</div><div>and in the process exhibiting different behaviors than before and doing things differently than before ending up feeling happy, secure and at peace always.</div><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-42157425851449916802008-07-01T03:19:00.000-07:002008-07-01T03:26:58.792-07:00Two sides of the same coinYou may have heard that Giving should not be done out of pity or guilt.<br /><br />How then, do you know if you are Giving for the right reasons.<br /><br />Here is a quick check:<br />If you feel honored to give, then you know it is right.<br />If you feel blessed to give, then you know it is right.<br />If you feel grateful for the opportunity to give, then you know it is right.<br /><br /><br />Giving and Receiving are two sides of the same coin.<br />Without Giving there is no Receiving.<br />Without Receiving there is no Giving.<br /><br />One gives or offers something to the Other.<br />While receiving, the receiver has given the "opportunity to be charitable" to the giver and<br />While giving, the giver has become the recipient of that opportunity.<br /><br />The Giver is also the Receiver and Receiver is also the Giver.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-39884604784795606322008-07-01T03:14:00.000-07:002008-07-01T03:17:11.253-07:00What is Real?Your 'Present' is real.<br /><br />Your present circumstances are real.<br />Your present challenges are real.<br />Your present feelings are real.<br /><br />You only have to deal with your present.<br />If you acknowledge your present totally and act accordingly,<br />then the natural Flow of the Universe aids you and<br />creates a future that you will be comfortable with.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-82826991951086820892008-07-01T03:07:00.000-07:002008-09-16T00:50:38.217-07:00The Power of ONEI am not referring to the ONE reality stuff here.<br />but<br />one unit of something, anything.<br /><br />For example, If you want to make money by investing,<br />when you start out, if you focus your <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">efforts</span> on making a million dollars, you are heading in the wrong direction.<br /><br />You can certainly have that as a goal, your intention, and in fact, you should.<br />Once you are clear, write it on a piece of paper, put it in a box<br />and keep the box in a place where you can take a look at it once a day to remind yourself of your goal.<br />Or do something to the equivalent of this to remind yourself everyday of your goal.<br /><br />Then the rest of the day, you will be focusing on your efforts, right?<br />That's where the power of ONE comes into play.<br /><br />Focus on earning one dollar, that's right one, 1, numero uno, dollar.<br />Make it, then make it again. Perfect it.<br />Get to the point where you can do it like it's magic, pulling it off effortlessly.<br />Become a master where you can do it consistently.<br />Then focus on earning 10 and only 10<br />and then 100 and only 100<br />and so on.<br /><br />This might seem silly if you are an adult but I'm sorry but there is no other way.<br /><br />Just to be clear, 'One' here, refers to 'One unit' and It may very well refer to<br />One hundred of something too.<br /><br />P.S. Since, the earlier you start the better or look less sillier, teaching the kids now would be a good idea.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-77862117848429849642008-07-01T02:57:00.000-07:002008-09-16T00:38:00.777-07:00What is important?Having a desire to cook is more important than having a spacious, well equipped, well stocked kitchen or even being knowledgeable.<br />Having a desire to go some place is more important than having the means to get there.<br />Having a desire to play is more important than having toys or a backyard.<br />Having a family is more important that having a home.<br />Having fun is more important than what you do.<br />Having an experience is more important than accomplishing.<br />Having a desire is more important than having the means, as,<br />The desire has the power to manifest.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-13755914363788311862008-07-01T02:54:00.000-07:002008-07-01T02:55:33.474-07:00Mind: deactivateFew Tips to deactivate your mind so that you can be fully present in the moment.<br /><br />1)Put time on your side.<br />Avoid situations where you are running out of time.<br /> Because when you do end up in such situations, it becomes easy for the mind to get charged up.<br /><br />2)Engage in something you love to do and get lost in it.<br /><br />3)If something is nagging you, address it right away.<br />If you are unable to address it directly, you could employ other ways like writing it down and setting a reminder to get back to it at a later time.<br /><br />4)Become Aware and Acknowledge what is happening.<br /><br />5)Direct your awareness to the sensations in your body and feelings.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-3689719594266772502008-07-01T02:47:00.000-07:002008-09-16T00:50:51.255-07:00Why be Grateful?You be grateful/thankful for your own sake.<br />The state of being grateful eliminates the mind and puts you in direct contact with the Source.<br />and hence the more often you are thankful and the longer you remain in that state of gratefulness, the better you feel.<br /><br />So do yourself a favor, and take every opportunity to be very very grateful, right from the fact that you are 'breathing right now' to 'all the opportunities you have had so far in your life'.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-35536393688610471082008-07-01T02:43:00.000-07:002008-07-01T02:46:17.634-07:00Career PathYou can go about it 2 ways:<br />You can look for the needs/demands/opportunities that are existing or will exist and adapt yourself to cater to them<br /> OR<br />Focus on <span style="font-weight: bold;">being</span> who you are thereby pronouncing and exemplifying "yourself" clearly.<br />Demonstrate those traits that make you "you" and feel good about them,<br />and as a result,<br />have appropriate Opportunities find you like bees find the flowers.<br /><br />I like the latter. What about you?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8462141.post-49783086066111621172008-07-01T02:33:00.000-07:002008-07-01T02:42:47.834-07:00Be patient!"Be patient!".<br />We hear it often times when we get anxious about something.<br />What does it mean?<br />While it certainly can mean, keep your mouth shut, stop twiddling your thumbs and sit in one place without biting your finger nails, it definitely means much more than that.<br /><br />To acquire something, reach somewhere, accomplish something - you need patience.<br />Patience is the journey to the state of Knowing,<br />knowing that you are going to get what you desire without an iota of doubt.<br /><br />Unless that state is achieved, you will not experience your object of desire.<br />You may flicker into that state of knowing and hence<br />you may have a fleeting experience of your desire but<br />for you to remain rooted in it,<br />requires you to score the necessary belief points to reach that level.<br />You need the belief that you can have what you desire because you are worth it.<br />That requires work on your part.<br />You may have to start out in small steps and gradually build up on the points on your belief scale to get to the score you need, but it sure does require work on your part.<br />And that is the journey.<br /><br />In the process of building your confidence and hence belief by focusing on incremental acts, as a side effect,<br />you may be shedding certain beliefs, fears and negative emotions all of which allow you to direct even more of your energy towards your object of desire.<br /><br />So Patience, then, is all about the work needed <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">inside</span> so you can have what you desire.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0