TRUE SUCCESS CAN BE YOURS
How do you define success?
Success is defined by our culture and sold to us in a constant bombardment of media imagery; this prevailing definition of success usually focuses us on getting some combination of wealth, power, fame or professional or social status and ruling over others -- all external measures of success.
This concept of success actually causes many of us to do much that doesn’t bring fulfillment or happiness; nor does it usually help us to feel successful or good for more than brief moments when we do achieve it.
In many cases, not only is there too much focus on external achievement and ‘winning’ by prevailing over others, there’s also a do-it-by-hook-or-by-crook mentality that goes along with it; the social pressures to ‘succeed’ are often so strong that many feel a need to cheat to get ahead, starting early during school years. Such a narrow concept of success leads to inner disorder and an inability to feel at ease and deeply fulfilled.
That concept of success doesn’t take into account the higher spiritual energy and consciousness state necessary for achieving TRUE LIFE SUCCESS. For it’s only in raising these inner measures that we may consistently produce the harmony, happiness, fulfillment, vitality, wise judgment and inner peace needed for experiencing TOTAL WELL-BEING and having a truly successful life.
True success can’t come if we only seek external gains. It requires seeking and achieving the internal gains that actually provide it; there can be no true success without gaining an understanding of who we really are.
So for true life success, make seeking within and raising spiritual energy and consciousness levels your primary goals; these provide the basis for true life success.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
THE MASTER’S MIND
How is a master’s mind different from an ordinary one?
Each human mind is normally biased, no matter how intelligent or educated a person may be. And this bias causes errors of judgment and action, producing needless conflict, suffering and difficulty; this is the normal human condition and the reason why human life is often problematic.
To get beyond this, the mind needs to become free of biases. This is an important difference between an ordinary mind and a master mind -- an ordinary mind is controlled by biases and a master’s isn’t. Further, a master’s mind is alertly aware of the distorting power of biases and constantly seeks to reign them in. Thus, a master sees more clearly, fully and truthfully. This is the greater position of a master mind state.
Such awareness is of tremendous advantage -- it allows one to understand the true nature of what exists and better assess its desirable and undesirable potentials. And, with this greater understanding and awareness, to interact more wisely and successfully.
Another difference is that a master’s mind can focus intuitively. Because it can put aside intrusive mind-chatter, it can focus more receptively to sense and feel things, as well as call up subconscious information that an ordinary mind state can’t. And because a master’s mind is more aware of its own biased reactions, it can tell the difference between authentic intuition and wishful thinking.
To help yourself move to a master mind state, postpone judgments and preferences ... and begin seeing with a more open and generous mind and heart.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
How is a master’s mind different from an ordinary one?
Each human mind is normally biased, no matter how intelligent or educated a person may be. And this bias causes errors of judgment and action, producing needless conflict, suffering and difficulty; this is the normal human condition and the reason why human life is often problematic.
To get beyond this, the mind needs to become free of biases. This is an important difference between an ordinary mind and a master mind -- an ordinary mind is controlled by biases and a master’s isn’t. Further, a master’s mind is alertly aware of the distorting power of biases and constantly seeks to reign them in. Thus, a master sees more clearly, fully and truthfully. This is the greater position of a master mind state.
Such awareness is of tremendous advantage -- it allows one to understand the true nature of what exists and better assess its desirable and undesirable potentials. And, with this greater understanding and awareness, to interact more wisely and successfully.
Another difference is that a master’s mind can focus intuitively. Because it can put aside intrusive mind-chatter, it can focus more receptively to sense and feel things, as well as call up subconscious information that an ordinary mind state can’t. And because a master’s mind is more aware of its own biased reactions, it can tell the difference between authentic intuition and wishful thinking.
To help yourself move to a master mind state, postpone judgments and preferences ... and begin seeing with a more open and generous mind and heart.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
PRACTICING ‘NO MIND’
During meditation we learn to still the mind. But to carry this meditative state into daily life we may need to practice NO MIND. As we do this we become more sensitive and receptive, and experience more fully and objectively.
Here’s how: when conversing, experience the other person’s words and actions without reacting. Just be still and fully attentive, keeping your mind clear and your heart open. At some point reactive thoughts will come, but hold them off for as long as you can and focus only on listening, taking in the whole person and trying to sense and clearly understand them.
(NO MIND may be practiced during other activities, but for now, just practice it while listening to others.)
As you practice NO MIND, even the most familiar person can be experienced as if for the first time; you can have a better connection with them and have new ‘first’ impressions of them. During NO MIND, living becomes a self-expanding discovery process; true knowing and understanding, as well as love, beauty, uniqueness and joy become more readily available.
Ordinarily, the mind acts as a biased filter screening out much of reality. It defines, compares, judges and reduces reality to mental constructs born of past experience. These keep us from experiencing the wonder of living and from gaining new insights and understandings. So by practicing NO MIND, we can help ourselves overcome these limiting tendencies and experience reality more freshly, clearly, fully, deeply and truthfully.
The practice of NO MIND is a living meditation. It frees us to access authentic intuitive intelligence and allows a new level of awareness and consciousness to take hold. To move to a higher level of self, practice NO MIND.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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During meditation we learn to still the mind. But to carry this meditative state into daily life we may need to practice NO MIND. As we do this we become more sensitive and receptive, and experience more fully and objectively.
Here’s how: when conversing, experience the other person’s words and actions without reacting. Just be still and fully attentive, keeping your mind clear and your heart open. At some point reactive thoughts will come, but hold them off for as long as you can and focus only on listening, taking in the whole person and trying to sense and clearly understand them.
(NO MIND may be practiced during other activities, but for now, just practice it while listening to others.)
As you practice NO MIND, even the most familiar person can be experienced as if for the first time; you can have a better connection with them and have new ‘first’ impressions of them. During NO MIND, living becomes a self-expanding discovery process; true knowing and understanding, as well as love, beauty, uniqueness and joy become more readily available.
Ordinarily, the mind acts as a biased filter screening out much of reality. It defines, compares, judges and reduces reality to mental constructs born of past experience. These keep us from experiencing the wonder of living and from gaining new insights and understandings. So by practicing NO MIND, we can help ourselves overcome these limiting tendencies and experience reality more freshly, clearly, fully, deeply and truthfully.
The practice of NO MIND is a living meditation. It frees us to access authentic intuitive intelligence and allows a new level of awareness and consciousness to take hold. To move to a higher level of self, practice NO MIND.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
YOUR DIVINE POWER
The power of our divine nature lies in our ability to truly love. By acting lovingly, we express our spiritual nature and produce our most fulfilling results.
This is a simple principle which is often misunderstood because we may confuse acting lovingly with doing what we think others will approve of and deem moral, righteous or good. Such actions are guided by the promulgated ideas of social traditions and religious dogmas. And while we may be well-meaning and good in following them, we’re not necessarily loving.
Truly loving action arises from no idea or creed. It’s a free and pure spontaneous act of divine spirit. It’s unconditional and done for its own sake. When we’re truly loving, we seek only to express and enjoy the goodness of our own divine spirit and demand nothing in return. Yet paradoxically, it usually brings us our greatest returns. For when we’re authentically and purely loving, we usually gain not only acceptance and approval, we also awaken a loving response in others and get our best results.
LOVING ACTION TENDS TO BEGET LOVING ACTION AND ULTIMATELY PRODUCES OUR GREATEST GOOD.
Here lies the secret power of loving action: Because it’s a free and pure act of living spirit, it releases spiritual energy that’s healing and creative -- the higher energy essential for evolving and elevating life.
If you have any difficulty being truly loving, your spiritual energy may be blocked. If so, seek to free it. And if you can’t on our own, seek the help of your therapist or spiritual adviser; freeing and expanding your love capacity is how we realize our divine nature and is essential for having our best life.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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The power of our divine nature lies in our ability to truly love. By acting lovingly, we express our spiritual nature and produce our most fulfilling results.
This is a simple principle which is often misunderstood because we may confuse acting lovingly with doing what we think others will approve of and deem moral, righteous or good. Such actions are guided by the promulgated ideas of social traditions and religious dogmas. And while we may be well-meaning and good in following them, we’re not necessarily loving.
Truly loving action arises from no idea or creed. It’s a free and pure spontaneous act of divine spirit. It’s unconditional and done for its own sake. When we’re truly loving, we seek only to express and enjoy the goodness of our own divine spirit and demand nothing in return. Yet paradoxically, it usually brings us our greatest returns. For when we’re authentically and purely loving, we usually gain not only acceptance and approval, we also awaken a loving response in others and get our best results.
LOVING ACTION TENDS TO BEGET LOVING ACTION AND ULTIMATELY PRODUCES OUR GREATEST GOOD.
Here lies the secret power of loving action: Because it’s a free and pure act of living spirit, it releases spiritual energy that’s healing and creative -- the higher energy essential for evolving and elevating life.
If you have any difficulty being truly loving, your spiritual energy may be blocked. If so, seek to free it. And if you can’t on our own, seek the help of your therapist or spiritual adviser; freeing and expanding your love capacity is how we realize our divine nature and is essential for having our best life.
Goodness and joy to all, Joseph.
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