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.
SPREAD AWARENESS ... FORWARD THESE THOUGHTS TO FRIENDS.
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.
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