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A joke: Patient to doctor, "I have this terrible feeling of being run down."
Doctor: "You should always look both on the left and on the right before crossing the road."
Another one: In these times of terrible my wife and I decided to earn some extra money.
We bought 50 halogen gas filled balloons at 10 pence each.
With great and effort, and with a hoarse voice by the end of the day we managed to sell off all the 5o balloons at 10p each to children at the city's zoo.
At the end of the day, when we counted our takings, we found we were no better off than when we started off.
My wife, with her customary habit of blaming everything on my foolishness, was quick to
show me her wisdom, "I told you we should have bought more of those balloons."
Maya - the real illusion:
'Maya' the ancient Indian concept is often being translated to mean that the world is an illusion.
Because the world, and indeed, our own bodily existence, is as phantom as the mirage of an oasis in a desert, it is said, we must not pamper our bodies, or hanker for worldly goods which ease the discomforts of our lives.
Austerities, pain, suffering, should be our lot, if we are to free ourselves from the bondage of 'maya' and realise one ness with God, the Creator.
So the holy men of India disdain worldly pleasures, responsibilities and take themselves away from society into mountain caves and forests.
It may be that these 'wise' people have got the wrong end of the stick.
The world is a 'maya." True.
But even so, it is real. The table is just as heavy to lift, the knife just as sharp to cut a finger, and the chocolate bar just as delicious being a 'maya' as if these things were real.
Being a 'maya' does not take anything away from their physical properties we experience.
The real "maya' illusion, is to think that these things exist apart from our own selves.
The 'maya' is in the illusion that the world of objects and pleasures is external to us.
The reality is that the 'maya' world is inside of us.
My hands, face, and the table before me, are all a projection of my own mind into space, and my senses report these projections to my mind as being outside of me.
It is as if my world is my own dream.
Indeed, when asleep, I do dream.
In my sleep the images I see and feel are all a projection of my own mind. The dream images appear in our dream as being outside of us, but we accept, when awake, that these images had no existence separate from our own dreaming mind.
It is exactly so even when I am awake.
Not to realise that even wakeful drama of our lives is a dream, is the real 'maya.'
The reality is that we are meant to enjoy our 'dreams.'
Life is meant to be a search for fun, joy, comfort and luxuries.
We are to dream our wildest dreams and make them come true.
Some suggestions as to how one can make our dreams come true are at the one web page at
http://www.macrofacts.org
Go there. Enjoy your visit.
Wishing you joy and abundance, Shree-1
A joke: Patient to doctor, "I have this terrible feeling of being run down."
Doctor: "You should always look both on the left and on the right before crossing the road."
Another one: In these times of terrible my wife and I decided to earn some extra money.
We bought 50 halogen gas filled balloons at 10 pence each.
With great and effort, and with a hoarse voice by the end of the day we managed to sell off all the 5o balloons at 10p each to children at the city's zoo.
At the end of the day, when we counted our takings, we found we were no better off than when we started off.
My wife, with her customary habit of blaming everything on my foolishness, was quick to
show me her wisdom, "I told you we should have bought more of those balloons."
Maya - the real illusion:
'Maya' the ancient Indian concept is often being translated to mean that the world is an illusion.
Because the world, and indeed, our own bodily existence, is as phantom as the mirage of an oasis in a desert, it is said, we must not pamper our bodies, or hanker for worldly goods which ease the discomforts of our lives.
Austerities, pain, suffering, should be our lot, if we are to free ourselves from the bondage of 'maya' and realise one ness with God, the Creator.
So the holy men of India disdain worldly pleasures, responsibilities and take themselves away from society into mountain caves and forests.
It may be that these 'wise' people have got the wrong end of the stick.
The world is a 'maya." True.
But even so, it is real. The table is just as heavy to lift, the knife just as sharp to cut a finger, and the chocolate bar just as delicious being a 'maya' as if these things were real.
Being a 'maya' does not take anything away from their physical properties we experience.
The real "maya' illusion, is to think that these things exist apart from our own selves.
The 'maya' is in the illusion that the world of objects and pleasures is external to us.
The reality is that the 'maya' world is inside of us.
My hands, face, and the table before me, are all a projection of my own mind into space, and my senses report these projections to my mind as being outside of me.
It is as if my world is my own dream.
Indeed, when asleep, I do dream.
In my sleep the images I see and feel are all a projection of my own mind. The dream images appear in our dream as being outside of us, but we accept, when awake, that these images had no existence separate from our own dreaming mind.
It is exactly so even when I am awake.
Not to realise that even wakeful drama of our lives is a dream, is the real 'maya.'
The reality is that we are meant to enjoy our 'dreams.'
Life is meant to be a search for fun, joy, comfort and luxuries.
We are to dream our wildest dreams and make them come true.
Some suggestions as to how one can make our dreams come true are at the one web page at
http://www.macrofacts.org
Go there. Enjoy your visit.
Wishing you joy and abundance, Shree-1
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