Emptiness and concepts

Everything is essentially empty.. Except for the concepts we have in our mind which was formed when events happened. If we realize that everything is essentially empty, then there is actually no right and wrong. With no holding of perceptions of right and wrong; armed with compassion, one can gracefully steer through samara with merits to his name. :)

It's there so that we can

As I was reading Bhagavad Gita, abt the song as a soul, fighting to release form maya (delusion) suddenly I had the thought that every lesson comes in our life to train us to be liberated. Even including maya. For without maya (delusion) we would not have the chance to learn to grow spiritually. Thus, in all hardships or sufferings it may seem, it's only because we needed it. Like how a lustful person has the karma of going into hell and suffer for his deeds, it's because his energy/mind needed this. It's to cleanse and purify his true nature. Without which, he would continue and would not have to chance to leave the lustful trait, which is not his true nature. So from a high point of view if it's not for cleansing our true nature and our attachments, the events would not manifest. 

Wealthiest person in the world

Couple of days ago, I wrote a post on my Facebook, inspired by a colleague that was constantly complaining to me all the time. 

I tried it just now. I closed my eyes, quiet my heart and mind down, and begin to count all the things that I still have with me.. 

My family..

My husband that dotes on me..

My house.. The sofa that I'm sitting so comfortably on..

My healthy body..

My parents still alive..

I still have a job..

I'm still alive..

The world is still going on.. 

Then suddenly I realized that I have all the conditions to be happy right now. I have no reason to be unhappy at anything. And anything that was irritating me before, now seems like a trival thing.

Suddenly I felt like I'm the wealthiest person in the world. I don't need a million dollars in my bank to feel like a million bucks. :)))

The mind knows no boundaries

The mind knows no boundaries. It's physical body has it's limitations. The mind travels back in time and to the future many times a day. It's only the physical body that cannot follow it. So sometimes if the mind is weak (which most of us are) we tend to be limited by the limitations of our physical body, forgetting that the mind is free and has no boundaries.

Choices

Every second we are making choices. Do we take a bigger step to overtake others or remain in our space, the food we eat, down to the drink that we drink, and people we meet. And it's these little choices we make each day that determines the eventual bigger choices we make in life. So if something big in our lives is going wrong, silent down, observe the everyday small choices we make in our lives. We will be surprised at how the bigger choice was already determined by the small choices way before the big decision was made. The small choices (aka habits) are habitual energy and has a life force of its own. It grows every time you choose it once more. And it's these little choices that makes up our character and personality and eventually decides all the choices, whether big or small, in our lives. 

So if you want to have a life that is guided by good choices instead of whims n habits, start by looking at the small choices. :)

P.S. There are no accidents. Everything is already set in place by our habits way way long before any accidents happens.

Accepting our feelings

Most of the times when we are feeling sad, or angry, it's not just pure anger or sadness. Usually anger accompanies other feelings underneath like guilt, fear and jealousy. Do we acknowledge these feelings and accept them? Denying them suppresses these feelings and make them explode out later on. We should learn to accept that we are feeling sad/angry/fearful/jealous and release these hurtful feelings from our body. So these negative energy will not stay in our body and continue to hurt us everytime any memory triggers these deep embedded emotions. Recognizing these emotions and learning to release them may very well serve our body from many mutated cells and many sicknesses. 

May all beings be well and free from suffering. Amituofo~

Path in life is almost always different from what we expect

"Passion can cause us great pain when we lose it. But our passion was not given to us to cause such pain. Sometimes it's just that our agreement is meant to be fulfilled differently than we expected, that's all."