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I am back again...............
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Feb 2, 2012 2:34 am
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Well it has been quite long time since I was on ff.
Missed my friends on ff so much, have no option but to get back.
How are you, all my friends.
Hope to be regularly with you now...
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WALKING ON WATER..............................
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Feb 28, 2010 3:17 am
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Three monks decided to practise
meditation together. They sat by the
side of a lake and closed their eyes
in concentration. Then suddenly, the
first one stood up and said,"I forgot
my mat."
He stepped miraculously onto the water
in front of him and walked across the
lake on the other side.
When he returned, the second monk stood
up and said,"I forgot to put my underwear
to dry."
He too walked calmly across the water
and returned.
The third monk watched the first two
carefully and thought, is their learning
superior to mine?
"I too can match your feat," he declared
and rushed to the water. He promptly
fell into the water. Undeterred, he tried
again, only to drown again. This went on
for quite some time as the other two watched.
After a while, the second monk turned to
the first and said,"Do you think we should
tell him where the stones are?"
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AM BACK AFTER A LONG TIME......
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Feb 24, 2010 10:22 pm
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Hello friends...
It was long long ago that I posted my blog.
But unfortunately I ran into very bad weather in my life....
But now everything seems to have settled into place nicely...
Hoping to see you regularly now...
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GOD.............................................................
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Sep 28, 2008 7:58 pm
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I strongly believe in the presence of God, which you could call as Cosmic Force, or whatever you like. Nothing in this world can happen by accident. Someone has to be there to co-ordinate everything happening around us, good or bad, since every action has a reason irrespective of its consequences on our lives and our happiness.
The human body is a marvelous creation and everything works with clock-like precision. One day, something happens and the body becomes limp and comes to a standstill. We pronounce that the man is dead. If you dissect the body and try to figure out what was there before and what has gone away, makes all the difference between life and the death. We have no explanation, since everything that is supposed to be inside the body is inside it even after its death. We have no explanation for this phenomenon, we have no explanation for a power, which controls the events of this world, and God is a convenient term to address this cosmic force.
I start my every work in His name. Success and failure are not because of me. It may be through me.
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TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE..........................
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Sep 28, 2008 12:32 am
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Whenever things don't happen the way one wants them to, there is a temptation to name it destiny. This is is how one deal with failure; one is consoling himself. Whatever situations one is ling in, to be human means that he/she can mould situations the he/she wants them. But today most people in the world are moulded by the situations in which they exist. This is simply because they exist in reaction to the situations they are placed in. So their question will be, WHY WAS I PLACED IN SUCH A SITUATION? IS IT MY BAD LUCK, IS IT MY DESTINY?
Everything that one knows now as "myself" is just an accumulation. Ones body is just an accumulation of food. What one call "my mind"it is an accumulation of impressions that one has gathered through the five senses. What one accumulate can be his/hers; it can never be he. What is he is yet to come into his experience; it is in an unconscious state. He is not ever 100 per cent conscious of what one has accumulated. He/she is trying to live his life through what he/she has gathered, not through what he/she is.
One has acquired certain tenIrrespective of ones current tendencies depending upon the type of impressions one has gathered. This can be changed. Irrespective of his current tendencies ones past experience of life, his genetics, irrespective of who his parents were, where he was born, where he grew up if one do certain things with himself, he can change this. One can completely rewire himself in a short span of time.
A century ago many things that people believed to be destiny or God's will, like diseases, infections and death are today in our hands because we have taken charge of certain things. What we can technology today is just this: Within the laws of nature everything on the outside that can be taken charge of, we will take charge of someday.
As there is an outer technology, there is an inner technology or inner engineering. Everything that this life is, is naturally happening to a certain law. If you know what the nature of life within you is, you can completely take charge of the way it happens. The would you let any unpleasantness happen to you?
Unpleasantness is happening to you in the form of anger, fear, anxiety and stress because your basic faculties--your body, mind emotions and your life energies--are going their own thing as if they don't belong to you. It does not matter who you are. Life does not work for you unless you do the right things. Existence is not jud mental. Good, bad all these judgments are essentially human and socially conditioned. Every society has its own idea of what is good and bad, but existence is treating all of us the same way. Whoever is receptive right now gets the bounty of life. The whole aspect of life must be to make you receptive. If your experience of life transcends the limitations of the physical, you come available to Grace. Suddenly you function life you are magic but you know you are just beginning to become receptive to a different dimension of life. And for everybody, this possibility is wide open. One has only to realize this aspect and then he/she will surely take charge of him/herself.
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IS EGO NECESSARY
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Sep 23, 2008 7:25 pm
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To Analise the breakdown of an intimate relationship is a daunting task. Is it worth the effort? No one can answer this excite the person caught up in such a circumstance. Even then, no one can be sure if their efforts will five them a better understanding of this complex dynamics. By delving into the connections that people have in their relationships, more mysteries than truths expose themselves. We start to realize the many different lines of communication that are available to each partner. Which ones are used and the manner in which they are used are open to each individual and hence the complexity. There is no formula to predict how a relationship may turn out. But certain truths did present themselves to us.
If one goes through the histories that dealt with the WALK AWAY LIFE certain questions keep creeping up. It is not easy to figure out why my wife wife of 15 years wanted out of our marriage. Certain questions keep coming back to e. did she fall out of lovewithme just like that? My entire family was at a loss to come to any cognitive reasons for such irrational events. Then the truth bestowed upon me.
There were no real answers or solutions on the conscious level of the mind. I had to go beyond the mind of through ts to the core of the problem, THE EGO. The ego that the mind creates in order to give it a means to confront the onslaught of the outside world. A world that it feels threatened by. Certainly, fear has its place in the dissolution of relationships, just as it does in most of our activities. I began to sense her fears. Fear of future, of being inadequate, of time slipping by. I examined my fear of the future, of being alone, of divorce procedures, of isolation from my relatives. I realized that time, contributes greatly to fear. The past no longer exists except as bits of memory and the future is not here and is only an image in our mind
of what might be. The only time that really exists is the present moment.
There are as many ways to view the world as there are persons in it.n The point of perspective is not how you view it but from where you view it. Through the evolution of the brain of modern man, the mind wa created. A mind that is aware of its own thoughts. The mind is also in-charge of protecting the organism it inhabits. Working with the automatic system, which controls involuntary responses and functions, it creates defense mechanisms, which ensure the organism's survival. To assist in the processing of the stimuli received from the senses and the responses to the outside world, the mind has created what is referred to as the EGO. One that is geared to take on the onslaught of the world. It has a defensive nature that is constantly on alert for threats and attacks.
The EGO interprets the information presented to it by the senses and cognitively assesses them and through the mind, produces thought. These through ts are then transformed, by the EGO, into emotions. Emotions are the body's response to thoughts. Our emotions arise out of these thought.
The problems created in man's responses to world are created by the ego going too far in its nature to perceive what is threatening to the organism and its self. It begins to believe it's who we really are. A fallacy that creates untold damage to the world it inhabits. By believing itself to be who we are, it will also defend itself against all possible threats. Mental threats such as verbal assault can be viewed by the ego as possibly demising it foothold as the self. The thoughts created in response can create emotions such as hostility towards the person verbally attaching it. What real damage can the verbal assault have upon organism? None, for it is a imagined threat but the EGO does not differentiate between real and imagined and still feels threatened. These type of emotions are fed back to the ego who now puts itself on a higher level of threat alertness. A cycle is created and induces the EGO to perceive more and more stimuli as possible threats. That which we train our body and minds to do, can more easily be done. The world is now perceived to be a hostile entity with imagined threats all around us.
All os us go through life at alevel of threat alertness designed by our own EGO. Some do not let such perceived threats dictate their responses while others are ready to take offense to the point of violence. It is the level of dysfunction that we allow the EGO to obtain that determines our reactions. A runaway ego may even to the state of mental paranoia. It is not what is said to us, felt or thought about us that does harm, it is the EGO'S reaction that creates the real damages.
The EGO is in a constant state of self-enhancement to make itself feel more secure. It seeks to acquire more materials goods, power, preceptive and so on. The emotional feelings, such as contentment, happiness, and fulfillment, that it receives in feedback from acquisitions further push the EGO to seek more. But just like drug addiction, this feeling is temporary. It is an insatiable thirst. The EGO wants more at any cost.
However, we can all do something to alleviate this dysfunction. But it cannot be done on the intellectual level. The mind is ill-equipped in this pursuit. By taking notice of how our mind nd EGO work, we can begin to function at a higher level.
From the higher self, we begin to see the world as it really is without the judgmental nature of the mind interfering. The mind differentiates the world into groups with similar attributes, for that is one of its purposes. But the EGO goes further and separates them. The higher self sees the world and its different features but does not considerate them as separate entities. It see the connection that all things share. They are part of the whole all creation. The higher self sees itself as a part of this whole. This underlying truthtransorms the way we interact with the world around us. This is the essence of compassion. The deep rooted sense that we are all connected. Who would do harm to someone or something that they know they are connected to or part of?
EGO CAUSES MOST OF MAN'S PROBLEMS IN DEALING WITH ONE ANOTHER. WHEN WE DISPENSE WITH THE EGO OUR TRUE NATURE IS BROUGHT FORTH.(with inputs from John Bendix's essay published in The Times of India).
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IS IT OKAY TO CRY............????????
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Sep 13, 2008 11:08 pm
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How many times have we heard well meaning
friends urging us to GET OVER IT QUICKLY. when
we experience the loss of someone dear to us or
something precious for us? Any kind of loss --be
it disappointment, setback, the ending of something
any kind of parting away, breack-up with a partner or
friend, loss in business, and death of someone close
to us--warrants proper grieving. The truth is we need
time to grieve and heal. We can't get over something
quickly. We can only move progressively.
Moving on does not mean forgetting, nor does it mean
shutting out from memory what has happened. It is not
the burrying of the past and carrying on with life,
because it is humanly impossible to forget significant
occurances in one's life. What is sinificant for one
need not be for another and one of the most damaging
ways to ask a person to MOVE ON is to dilute the
significance of the occurrence. Trivialising occurrences
however inconsequential tey may be, is not the best way
to help another cope with the situation.
BUT WHY DOES MOST OF US DO THIS? Because we are ill at
ease with emotions and to most, frief has been defined
as a bad and negative emotion. With these ideas, people
become afraid to emote, and grief becomes something to
be embarrassed or ashamed of.
But grief is not depression, it is sadness, which is
healthy and appropriate. In sadness people appraise their
loss and comprehend the disadvantages that accrue. So a
person, who brought pleasure to your life and who is now no
more, may bring come barrenness for you. You will miss him/
her, be sentimental about the good times and reminisce about
the bonds you shared. This is healthy and beneficial and
just human.
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FULLNESS / EMPTINESS......?
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Aug 19, 2008 1:29 am
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There is no doubt that everyone seeks the
fullness of life, seen as happiness in an enlightened state or afterlife. Various
religions call it salvation or heaven.
Terms that express this fullness include
pleroma and plerosis. While such terms seeks
to express the fullness of some ULTIMATE, they
also run the risk of creating in believers holier-than-thou attitudes. Moreover, they
might hamper fruitful exchange of ideas and
dialogue among religious traditions. Hence, rather than seek to dialogue with others from
a position of fullness, emptiness could be the
entry point.
Emptiness is not nothringness, it is a fertile
breeding fround for faith. Faith normally
deals with an ULTIMATE in some form or
other. In this sense, all human beings have
faith. This is the realm where the atheist or agnostice mgiht part company with the religious
beliver. All the more reason why, apart from the realm of religion, a creative emptiness can engage even engage even those who subscribe
to no religion.
The space of emptiness is beyond words,
theories and dogmas that come from defining
everything in terms of the familiar. In the absence of words, ehories and dogmas, we come to realise that we all share a substratum of life that, while being deeply human and immanent, also embraces the devine and the transcendent.
We have long been tainted by the blood of wars fought "IN GOD'S NAME". But such battles belittle the Divine and drive us towards the part of self-destruction in the pursuit of a fickle faith which pretends to have reached fullness, when in actual fact it is founded on fear and fanaticism. Conversely, one who has true faith is not afrais of learning from the other.
Approaching the other and the Divine from the
pole of emptiness is a sign of faith, which binds not only religious belivers, but all those who believe in the power of selfless love. When self emptiness is practised by all people of goodwill, we will lovingly interrelate as members of interdepedent family, aware of our own emptiness hat is, ironically, the very FULLNESS we deeply desire.
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SAVE YOUR GOODNESS ...............
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Aug 15, 2008 2:51 am
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Two types of personalities are predominant in us : the good and the bad. The recognition and development of good qualities will lead one to freedom from bondage and pain. Negative qualities on the other hand lead one into bondage, resulting in sorrow and dependency.
The positive and the negative are present everywhere and in all time periods. Even in
the worst possible scenario, one could
find something good. If a tragedy like an
earthquake happens, it reveals how there are those who help total strangers even at
personal risk. We also come across those who take advantge by looting and robbing.
Since both the good and bad tendencies exist in us, we are both potentially divine as well as devilish. Environment, association and circumstances might exercise a major influence.
It is important to avoid what is negative and encourage the positive. Even if one sees a little good quality in oneself or in others, encourage it. You might find something positive even in those you perceive to be your enemies. So give goodness a chance.
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RE ENTRY...??????????
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Aug 13, 2008 1:07 am
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It has been a long and arduous journey all through this long time when I was absent from FF. It was very painful journey though. Some lovedones were lost and some new friends came into the life. Infact this is the rule of nature. Isn't it?
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