I had someone put this message in an email the other day. It really made me think about life. I always like the little snippets or comments that cause me to think or look at things in a different way. To quote the comment:
When you worry about what other people think, it shows you have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own...
I feel this is very true. I can not count the times I have been upset that others have not perceived me as the person I really am in life. Yet why do I listen to them? I do not feel they are correct and it makes it so it can ruin your self-image by listening. Yet listening to them may also be a solution as you think why would they perceive me that way when I am such a different person. How am I acting that I would be perceived that way.
Introspection can be good for the soul. It can make it so you look at yourself and see reasons why others might misjudge or perceive you in a bad fashion. Did they see you when you were upset or frustrated and make this judgment on just one moment of your personality? It may also be that they know you are not going to play their social games and try to exclude you. Yet why is their opinion important?It is not important unless you believe them.
I had one person who must have felt inferior to me try to find something to humiliate me with while I was visiting. First it was about my table manners. It was a good strategy as where I live is not known for its extra forks and silverware. Sometimes you even have to ask for silverware so I knew I was on shaky ground with my table manners. Yet Emily Post when I checked her did show me I did not have to worry.I allowed this person to make me dread eating and socializing. I was so nervous I had the worse table manners I ever had at any time or social function.Yet why would it matter? It matters because of people judging you and trying to have a social status or caste system so they can feel superior.
Yet the reason this mattered was because I allowed myself to listen to someone who wanted to put me down. I let the person get to me instead of my normal rule of thumb that real people do not need to do things like that to others. At the same time I had eye strain from my sunglasses being broken. One person helped me and I could feel the anger when the table manners person said how dare he touch a white woman. I knew I had caused the person who was nice to be to be fired at that moment. It would not matter what happened or what he did the person making the comment was his boss and a malicious person.
In a real world the kindness of that person should have been rewarded. I have been trying to do something nice for him since that day. I tried to make nice comments but that made it worse so I have done prayers for him to be lucky, happy and safe for a year now. It was not my fault but I feel bad for any problems his being nice caused him.
It was not right or fair. Yet others create their own worlds where they are perfect and superior. They give out these ideas and opinions to make it so others exist in their world and live by their rules. They are always the separate and superior people.They are also the ones who try to judge others where they are special. No one who is socially superior or special needs to do this. I always feel if you are that special then everyone will know it anyway.
I have also seen people make fools of themselves being nice to others. They try to be nice and I always tell them you either are nice or you are not nice. You make bad choices when you push yourself to have others perceive you as nice.It is the real point here trying to make others perceive you as something is not necessary if you are a nice person, or anything else you want them to perceive you as being in your life. If you live in truth then you know what you are and do not need to push it. People who judge others by sex, race, class status are limiting themselves and removing a great deal of excitement from their lives.
So listen to others and see if you are what they say you are. Do you like yourself and feel that they are judging you. If they are and you do not feel what they say is true then do not try to make yourself into something you are not. If they can not like you for yourself then it is their opinion. If you let others opinions influence you so you are not your true self and do not like yourself then what are you really? You are another person who is disconnected from life and does not enjoy being themselves. It is what causes mental illness and many problems.
Love yourself and be yourself. It is not always easy and being different always has been hard. The good part is when you make a friend you keep friends.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Healing for Japan-The Medicine Buddha-
I have been impressed with how Japan is coping with all of the problems they are having. I thought that this week I would do an Oriental philosophy upon a healing Buddha. It is also a subject dear to me at the moment as I have had my eye problems worsen and realize that the divine is everywhere.
I am an Inter-faith minister which means I believe in all the forms of God no matter what they are named as part of the incomprehensible God. It means that mankind loves God. Mankind finds many ways to worship him, and many names to call him. It is all one God but we and our souls resonate to the part of God that is perfect for us.
I believe that the 12 vows of the Medicine Buddha are those of any healer who wants to help those upon this earth. I also feel the first 5 of the Buddhist precepts would be good for everyone to listen too. Excess and selfishness are a problem in our world.
The Twelve Vows of the Medicine Buddha upon attaining Enlightenment, according to the Medicine Buddha Sutra are:
To illuminate countless realms with his radiance, enabling anyone to become a Buddha just like him.
To awaken the minds of sentient beings through his light of lapis lazuli.
To provide the sentient beings with whatever material needs they require.
To correct heretical views and inspire beings toward the path of the Bodhisattva.
To help beings follow the Moral Precepts, even if they failed before.
To heal beings born with deformities, illness or other physical sufferings.
To help relieve the destitute and the sick.
To help women who wish to be reborn as men achieve their desired rebirth.
To help heal mental afflictions and delusions.
To help the oppressed be free from suffering.
To relieve those who suffer from terrible hunger and thirst.
To help clothe those who are destitute and suffering from cold and mosquitoes
A link to a YouTube Medicine Buddha Healing Mantra is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xie9jNeRvP4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Focus on the beautiful Japan we know from so many photographs and the people and animals being healed by the Medicine Buddha. It is a beautiful experience.I feel that the philosophy of Buddhism helped to strengthen the Japanese people to over come the things that have happened to them. I hope the best for them and that their land is able to be healed and the people helped. I respect this form of divinity for the benefits and beauty it has inspired through out the world.
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from ...
...harming living beings.
...taking things not freely given.
...sexual misconduct.
...false speech.
...intoxicating drinks and drugs causing heedlessness.
...taking untimely meals.
...dancing, singing, music and watching grotesque mime.
...use of garlands, perfumes and personal adornment.
...use of high seats.
...accepting gold or silver.
I find these things similar to many religions in trying to set an ethical behavior. Religion is all about trying to make it so people can work together. I am also very spiritual and a mystic who loves the divine in all of its shapes. I am reminded of how the Japanese people are showing their strength and ethics in the midst of horrible disasters. I did not see this in the United States where I live as disasters seems to cause looting and taking from others.
I ask that all of you help Japan and pray for Japan in what ever fashion is acceptable for you. I am blessed to know all of you and to be able to say I love you all.
I am an Inter-faith minister which means I believe in all the forms of God no matter what they are named as part of the incomprehensible God. It means that mankind loves God. Mankind finds many ways to worship him, and many names to call him. It is all one God but we and our souls resonate to the part of God that is perfect for us.
I believe that the 12 vows of the Medicine Buddha are those of any healer who wants to help those upon this earth. I also feel the first 5 of the Buddhist precepts would be good for everyone to listen too. Excess and selfishness are a problem in our world.
The Twelve Vows of the Medicine Buddha upon attaining Enlightenment, according to the Medicine Buddha Sutra are:
To illuminate countless realms with his radiance, enabling anyone to become a Buddha just like him.
To awaken the minds of sentient beings through his light of lapis lazuli.
To provide the sentient beings with whatever material needs they require.
To correct heretical views and inspire beings toward the path of the Bodhisattva.
To help beings follow the Moral Precepts, even if they failed before.
To heal beings born with deformities, illness or other physical sufferings.
To help relieve the destitute and the sick.
To help women who wish to be reborn as men achieve their desired rebirth.
To help heal mental afflictions and delusions.
To help the oppressed be free from suffering.
To relieve those who suffer from terrible hunger and thirst.
To help clothe those who are destitute and suffering from cold and mosquitoes
A link to a YouTube Medicine Buddha Healing Mantra is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xie9jNeRvP4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
Focus on the beautiful Japan we know from so many photographs and the people and animals being healed by the Medicine Buddha. It is a beautiful experience.I feel that the philosophy of Buddhism helped to strengthen the Japanese people to over come the things that have happened to them. I hope the best for them and that their land is able to be healed and the people helped. I respect this form of divinity for the benefits and beauty it has inspired through out the world.
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from ...
...harming living beings.
...taking things not freely given.
...sexual misconduct.
...false speech.
...intoxicating drinks and drugs causing heedlessness.
...taking untimely meals.
...dancing, singing, music and watching grotesque mime.
...use of garlands, perfumes and personal adornment.
...use of high seats.
...accepting gold or silver.
I find these things similar to many religions in trying to set an ethical behavior. Religion is all about trying to make it so people can work together. I am also very spiritual and a mystic who loves the divine in all of its shapes. I am reminded of how the Japanese people are showing their strength and ethics in the midst of horrible disasters. I did not see this in the United States where I live as disasters seems to cause looting and taking from others.
I ask that all of you help Japan and pray for Japan in what ever fashion is acceptable for you. I am blessed to know all of you and to be able to say I love you all.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
A Physicists Poem
A physicists poem:
By Marty Rosenblatt (c)2011
Foretelling Destiny
Precognition teaches that just as
you can experience information moving forward in time,
you can experience information moving backward in time.
Precognition teaches that just as
history influences events,
destiny influences events.
Precognition teaches that just as
you create your history,
you create your destiny.
Marty Rosenblatt is a Physicist that has been doing research on precogition for those who like a scientific view of the ability to access the future. He has many articles on his website and a way to do Associated Remote viewing as a project. He is also at IRVA's Conference in Las Vegas as a speaker this year. His website links are
http://www.1ARV.com
http://www.p-i-a.com
I did work in his projects on ARV for quite a few years and always enjoy his thoughts on foretelling the future. The poem is very true as we by the cause and effect in our lives created by our choices create our own history and destiny. We can access the information we need by moving forward and backwards in time. I also feel it shows that there are scientists that do work upon these issues that do great work.
The IRVA Remote Viewing Conference link is
http://www.irva.org/
It is always a great deal of fun and makes me think about the different possiblities of how people accomplish the same things. I hope you check out the links.
By Marty Rosenblatt (c)2011
Foretelling Destiny
Precognition teaches that just as
you can experience information moving forward in time,
you can experience information moving backward in time.
Precognition teaches that just as
history influences events,
destiny influences events.
Precognition teaches that just as
you create your history,
you create your destiny.
Marty Rosenblatt is a Physicist that has been doing research on precogition for those who like a scientific view of the ability to access the future. He has many articles on his website and a way to do Associated Remote viewing as a project. He is also at IRVA's Conference in Las Vegas as a speaker this year. His website links are
http://www.1ARV.com
http://www.p-i-a.com
I did work in his projects on ARV for quite a few years and always enjoy his thoughts on foretelling the future. The poem is very true as we by the cause and effect in our lives created by our choices create our own history and destiny. We can access the information we need by moving forward and backwards in time. I also feel it shows that there are scientists that do work upon these issues that do great work.
The IRVA Remote Viewing Conference link is
http://www.irva.org/
It is always a great deal of fun and makes me think about the different possiblities of how people accomplish the same things. I hope you check out the links.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
The Law of Cause and Effect-the Gift of Prophecy
I would like to do a quote from the Emerald Tablet of Thoth for this weeks moment of thought.
The Law of Cause and Effect and The Gift of Prophecy
List ye, O man, to the words of my wisdom,
list to the voice of Thoth, the Atlantean.
Conquered have I the Law of time-space.
Knowledge have I gained of the future of time.
Know I that man in his movement through
space-time shall ever be One with the All
Know ye, O man,
that all of the future is an open book
to him who can read.
All effect shall bring forth its causes
as all effects grew from the first cause.
Know ye the future is not fixed or
stable but varies as cause brings forth an effect.
Look in the cause thou shalt bring into being,
and surely thou shalt see that all is effect.
So, O man, be sure the effects that ye bring
forth are ever causes of more perfect effects.
Know ye the future is never in fixation but
follows man's free will as it moves through
the movements of time-space toward
the goal where a new time begins.
Man can only read the future through
the causes that bring the effects.
Seek ye within the causation and
surely ye shall find the effects.
The document calls Thoth the Atlantean and not a God. Yet what it says about cause and effect is very true. The reason I do not care for regular fortune telling and do not want to do readings is because of my feelings that the future can be changed. I have done readings when I was younger before I realized that people really can listen and change their future. Everyone I did a reading for waited to see what would happen. Instead of using their free will to change a bad outcome. All of them were more interested in whether or not I was right or wrong.
I was waiting for the one person who wanted to take charge of their life and change the cause so the bad effect would not happen. I have said for years that the choices we make create causes which bring about effects. I always try to bring about the best causes and effects in my life. Yet curses always bring the person the negative choice and tempts them to use their free will in such a way to make negative effects in their lives.
I feel this part of the Emerald Tablet of Thoth can apply to all of us.
The Law of Cause and Effect and The Gift of Prophecy
List ye, O man, to the words of my wisdom,
list to the voice of Thoth, the Atlantean.
Conquered have I the Law of time-space.
Knowledge have I gained of the future of time.
Know I that man in his movement through
space-time shall ever be One with the All
Know ye, O man,
that all of the future is an open book
to him who can read.
All effect shall bring forth its causes
as all effects grew from the first cause.
Know ye the future is not fixed or
stable but varies as cause brings forth an effect.
Look in the cause thou shalt bring into being,
and surely thou shalt see that all is effect.
So, O man, be sure the effects that ye bring
forth are ever causes of more perfect effects.
Know ye the future is never in fixation but
follows man's free will as it moves through
the movements of time-space toward
the goal where a new time begins.
Man can only read the future through
the causes that bring the effects.
Seek ye within the causation and
surely ye shall find the effects.
The document calls Thoth the Atlantean and not a God. Yet what it says about cause and effect is very true. The reason I do not care for regular fortune telling and do not want to do readings is because of my feelings that the future can be changed. I have done readings when I was younger before I realized that people really can listen and change their future. Everyone I did a reading for waited to see what would happen. Instead of using their free will to change a bad outcome. All of them were more interested in whether or not I was right or wrong.
I was waiting for the one person who wanted to take charge of their life and change the cause so the bad effect would not happen. I have said for years that the choices we make create causes which bring about effects. I always try to bring about the best causes and effects in my life. Yet curses always bring the person the negative choice and tempts them to use their free will in such a way to make negative effects in their lives.
I feel this part of the Emerald Tablet of Thoth can apply to all of us.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Who makes these Changes?
I have not written as much because I wanted to find some new way to give ideas. I plan to do a piece of writing I find interesting each week. This week it is a poem from Jelaluddin Rumi who was born in 1207.
Who Makes these Changes?
Who makes these changes?
I shoot an arrow right
and it lands left
I ride after a deer
and find myself chased by a hog
I plot to get what I want
and I end up in prison
I dig pits to trap others
and I fall in.
I should be suspicious
of what I want.
How many of us work hard and plan things in our lives and have things change on us. I know many times I have had to ask myself. How did these changes happen? How did these things occur? I had the right intent and did the right things but then chance and change enters into the situation and it end result is the same but it is sure different in how it happens.
Change can be positive but how many of us are afraid of change. Just read the poem. The people afraid of change always shoot an arrow to the right and have it land in the left. They chase after something and have it change and start chasing them. Maybe all of us should be more suspicious of what we want in life.
We may feel it is right for us but these changes occur because of our choices not being quite right no matter how hard we try to make things work. Endurance will work even when the changes are not what we want and we can endure until things turn right. I always feel it is because of the fear that change causes in many people. We twist every thing to our worries and how things never go right for us.
I know that things always happen with in the divine plan so when the changes occur I know that the Divine always has a hand in the changes to make things go right. It may surprise us where we feel like we are chasing after something and then find something chasing us back. Yet we are always have to realize we are not in control and are here to enjoy the challenges and the ride.
Who Makes these Changes?
Who makes these changes?
I shoot an arrow right
and it lands left
I ride after a deer
and find myself chased by a hog
I plot to get what I want
and I end up in prison
I dig pits to trap others
and I fall in.
I should be suspicious
of what I want.
How many of us work hard and plan things in our lives and have things change on us. I know many times I have had to ask myself. How did these changes happen? How did these things occur? I had the right intent and did the right things but then chance and change enters into the situation and it end result is the same but it is sure different in how it happens.
Change can be positive but how many of us are afraid of change. Just read the poem. The people afraid of change always shoot an arrow to the right and have it land in the left. They chase after something and have it change and start chasing them. Maybe all of us should be more suspicious of what we want in life.
We may feel it is right for us but these changes occur because of our choices not being quite right no matter how hard we try to make things work. Endurance will work even when the changes are not what we want and we can endure until things turn right. I always feel it is because of the fear that change causes in many people. We twist every thing to our worries and how things never go right for us.
I know that things always happen with in the divine plan so when the changes occur I know that the Divine always has a hand in the changes to make things go right. It may surprise us where we feel like we are chasing after something and then find something chasing us back. Yet we are always have to realize we are not in control and are here to enjoy the challenges and the ride.
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