Love all Life, Things, Events

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   Christmas day today.

   The world is on the verge of leaping into a new year.

    My wishes for the world in the the new year are:

    1. Children are taught to control their anger.

    2.  I learn to change anger towards another life or thing to love.

     3. I learn to have compassion for all life, things, and events.

         So, e.g. love the grass and the weeds in the garden,

               love the fox that messes up my garden as much as I love my baby,

                love the computer on my desk, for its sleek design and its capabilities,

               love a fall I just had that broke my leg. (No judgement about the fall, accepted it)
 
     4. We accept that life is meant to be joy and fun, to do whatever we desire, PROVIDED our desires do not hurt any other life.

   Wishing you joy and abundance,   Shree-1
                  

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

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  A Joke:   Bus driver, announcing to his passengers on the full bus, "If no one will give up your set for this young lady just boarded, I will give up my seat to her."


  Merry Christmas & Happy New Year,

      I wish a very happy Christmas festivities.

      May everything you do in the New Year 2012 allows joy and abundance to flow to you.

      As I understand it, the message of Christmas is love and peace to all.

      Hidden in that message is the suggestion that one should convert one's anger to  love.

      When every one is able to master their emotion to convert anger to love, there will truly be
God's kingdom on earth. There will be no wars, and, equally important, every one will be supremely happy.


      Wishing you supreme happiness,     Shree-1

Why?

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    A couple of Jokes:   1.  I do not need a parachute if I want to jump only once.
                                          I only need it if I want to jump a second time.

                                     2.  My computer beat me at chess. But it was no match with me in kick-boxing.

Why?

      It is a known axiom of self-devlopment that one must know the reason why one wants a particular situation in life.

      Without having a clear reason for having one's wished fulfilled, one would not be able to put in the effort needed to make them come true.

       Here is my attempt o answer the question "Why?"

       First, what do I want?

       Success.

       Why do I want success?

       So that when I take my last breath I do not feel all my life was wasted?

       Why would that hurt me so?

        Because I have seen and experienced my life's comforts because of the good deeds of others. I,too feel that f I were to add my little legacy that can improve others' lives in some way, my purpose of living would have been achieved.

        Why do I think improving others' lives should be my purpose of life?

         Because society has taught me so.

        Why has society taught me that I should help others by my living?

        So that society can function in an orderly peaceful life for all citizens.

        Why must society function so?

         So that I can live happily and die peacefully.

          Why must I live happily?

           So that I can be a success at helping others?

          Why so?

           So that society can function in an orderly peaceful way for all citizens.

      That is the message I get from my ruminations. To die in peace I must help others, and in so doing help myself.

         Wishing you joy and abundance.      Shree-1



     

Lessons from a lighted candle

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A Joke:     The taxi was stuck in the rush hour traffic.

                  Its passenger, getting late for an appointment was getting irate with the taxi driver.

                  He continually blamed the driver for missing out on opportunities where he could have cut in
to speed ahead.

                  "What am I paying you for?" He spat out at the driver,  "I could get there faster if I walked."

                  The driver, too, was getting frustrated with his irate passenger.

                   He saw a chance to get rid of his fare.

                   The taxi was stuck in the traffic, not getting any where.
  
                   So he said to his fare, "Please, Sir, do me a favour, and start walking."

                   The passenger, said, "It's OK, I am not in any hurry."


Lessons from a lighted Candle:

                 When I see a lighted candle I see similarities in my own being with the candle.

                  The candle wick draws on the candle wax, and burns it to make a flame of a particular shape and colour.

                   The shape of the flame is dependent on the length of the wick, and the flame's colour is dependent on the constituent of the wick, e.g. a wick with sodium in it will give a different colour to one with just a cotton string.

                  I imagine that I am the wick. The candle wax is the Cosmic Mind. The "I" that is the wick is also a part of the same Cosmic Mind, it cannot be apart, outside, the Cosmic Mind. It is embedded in the cosmic mind, as the wick is in the candle.

                 I draw, as the candle wick does, on the INFINITE ideas, thoughts, images that are stored in the cosmic mind.

                I process them, as the candle wick burns the candle wax, and project my body and my world as the wick projects the flame.

                My body, my world, my life experiences, are my creations drawn from the storehouse of the cosmic mind.

                These thoughts are supported by mystics who have experienced the truth behind our existence.

                They do say that we are essentially our everlasting souls. Each soul decides the place and circumstances of its birth on the earthly plane. The world each life lives is their own projection, a thought, which appears as solid reality to the body's mind.

            Each soul takes its earthly form to experience events which will help it to "learn" something it want to. Having done that, it returns to its source, the Cosmic Mind.

             With that analogy, I see myself as being responsible for all my life's circumstances.

              How do I draw on the knowledge that is in the Cosmic Mind?

             I do that with my beliefs, thoughts, and feelings.

             I also imagine, when viewing this lighted candle, a big thick candle, with several wicks, each of different cloth and lengths, sticking out of the candle wax.

             These different wicks, arising from the same candle wax, are like the different people on our planet.

              Each one has the same common origins, drawing on the same basic data.

              Each one is related as children of the same mother.

              So each one sees the same mountain, but each's life is different according to the wick they have chosen to be.

             Will it not be a lovely bright world if all the flames of this Cosmic candle shone together to lighten the whole Cosmos? No one burning down another, hurting another, but living happily in unison with a common aim of making the whole cosmos a brighter place for all.

             Wishing you joy and abundance,   Shree-1