From moment to moment, we think we are free. I repeat, think, we are free. But if we were to spend time questioning our inner world, we will know that we are not. We will soon realize that we are bonded by lots of things – our family, our career, our interest, our materials, our [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Are You Free?
Posted in Ideas, tagged conditionings, Freedom, Ideas, surrendering on June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Better the Ending of Craving
Posted in Quotes, tagged Buddha, desires, Freedom, spiritualjourney, wisdom on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not even if it rained gold coins can there be satiety in sensual desire. Sensual pleasures are painful and of little sweetness. Realizing this, the wise person takes no delight even in heavenly pleasures. The disciple of the Fully Enlightened One delights in the destruction of craving. ~ Buddha, Dhammapada 186, 187 ~
Lose the Concepts, Free the Mind
Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas, tagged Freedom, Ideas, mindfulness, projections, takingresponsibility, thoughts, wisdom on June 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Apparently, to free the mind is to be free of concepts. To be free of concepts means, to undo all sorts of limitations that binds us. I am speaking of things which we find are restrictive to our sense of being, which disable us to achieve our fullest sense of joy. But then again, peace [...]
Getting to It
Posted in Going Inwards, tagged Ideas, inquiry, integrity, reflections, takingresponsibility, unworthiness, willingness on June 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
From a core belief of unworthiness is stem lots more beliefs resulting in behaviors which are either confirmatory or compensational, as illustrated by Paul Ferrini very clearly in his book ‘Embracing Our True Self’. In other words, we either try to manifest that belief or try to prove that it is wrong. I was having [...]
An Abraham Lincoln Quote
Posted in Quotes, tagged Ideas, reflections on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble [...]
Freeing Labels & Concepts
Posted in Ideas, tagged conditionings, ego, Ideas, ignorance, inquiry, projections, reflections, takingresponsibility, thoughts on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Labels onto certain persons in our lives put these people up on the pedestal. A dad, a mom, a teacher, a BFF (best friend forever), a lover or whatever; because of the preconceived concepts or ideas of these roles by society which our mind had inevitably took it for real without questioning, limitations arises from [...]
Living Life
Posted in Attitudes, tagged appreciation, Freedom, Ideas, mindfulness on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For a while now I have realized how the living life in societal context is actually meaningless. A friend once asked me, that if she was not playing mom to her kids, wife to her husband, teacher to her students, who then is she? Coincidently, my teacher also mentioned something about mid-life crisis last night [...]
Confession
Posted in Attitudes, tagged forgiveness, Freedom, integrity, takingresponsibility, willingness on June 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was told that there are confession boxes in churches, where priests sit in and wait for followers to go into the box to confess their sins. I have never visited one as far as I can recall, but I remember a friend telling me many years ago that each time she wanted to scold [...]
The Gift
Posted in Excerpts from Books, tagged Ideas, Paul Ferrini, service on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The gift is entrusted to us for safe keeping, for nurturing and development and ultimately for expression. But it is not our gift per se. We are the giver of the gift, not the creator of it. The gift comes from Spirit. It merely comes through us. Both giving and receiving require openness and trust [...]
