NA FERAR DESHEY ONS BNNABEL URUEMAN QT

 NA FERAR DESHEY ONS BNNABEL URUEMAN QT 

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Realists are significantly happier than both pessimists and optimists in the long-run, research reveals.

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Ishmael                              ישמעאל

שמע (pronounced sh-mah) to hear, to listen

אל (pronounced ah-l) God, god/superhuman

The name Ishmael is composed of several Hebrew words: 1) El means “God”, 2) eShemah means “he will hear”. The basic meaning of Ishmael, is therefore, “God will hear”. There is another well-known Biblical name with a very similar meaning - Semion (שִׁמְעוֹן).  Semion (pronounced Shimyon) was Jacob’s son. It too it carries the idea of “being heard” from above. 

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B NON SELF Generally, we implicitly consider the thoughts and emotions that pass through our minds as being "ours." We say, "my thoughts," or, "my emotions." Yet, when we look for this so-called "me," are we able to find it? Where is it located? Is it in my head, my chest, or my face? What color is it? Does it have boundaries? When we look at the nature of this "me" or "mine," we may see multiple things, such as images, or a storyline, or have a feeling or sense. Or, when we look, we may see nothing, or something incapable of being described or pin-pointed. When we look at what we blindly call "I" or "me" more clearly, thoughts and emotions in the mind then seem to appear without there being a single, independent "thinker" or "emotioner" capable being pin-pointed. Isn't that strange? This helps slowly dissolve our identification with these thoughts and emotions, leaving behind a feeling of spaciousness or freedom. In brief, the wisdom of not-self is for the purpose of seeing ourselves and emotions more clearly, so that we can be free from the suffering they cause.

By not clinging to identity. The Buddha spoke of "I making" and "my making." At its worst it is like running around being egotistical and loud. In more mild ways it it checking your pride all the time. One teacher had a very good strategy, he said that when you feel insulted, pause, see what is being insulted, is that worth clinging to?

Who is sad? What does “I” mean? Does it mean that your body is sad? Are your memories sad? What does it mean when you say the words I am sad? You’re not sad, you’re having emotions that are sad. It is not who you are. Whenever you feel an emotion or an urge, simply practice the mindfulness technique of asking yourself what part of you is this suffering effecting.

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B 

If everything is impermenant, then is Nibbana also impermenant?

Interesting question.

In Buddhism when it's said ‘everything is impermanent’ it's reffering to our material world.

Nibanna itself is not explained because it doesn't belong to our sense realm, it thus can't be explained.

It's said it's just like extinguishing a fire.

So, our laws don't apply to the state of Nibanna , it is thus an permanent state.

Another teaching which is misunderstood is ‘life is suffering’, it's actually ‘there is suffering in life’ , because there is lots of joys and happiness also in life but all of that has an inbuilt fleeting feeling inside them and our misguided efforts to achieve them complicates things.

One can find equanimity with the teachings and still live in the world.

Final one is there is suffering due to craving, there is craving due to ignorance but it is not explained where the ignorance comes from, because there is no need. One just works to remove the ignorance.

The human mind seeks answers to everything but actually we can complicate things by overanalyzing and overthinking also.

When we say something is omnipresent or impermanent, it has to be defined against something which is present and permanent for us to understand.

That's why thinking about things like when did world or time start is not encouraged as one will ask ‘what before that', we thus don't know when all this started.

That is why it's said that no one spoke as much as the Buddha but also no one stayed silent as much as the Buddha.

Because he knew which questions not to answer.

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ndm Maharaj often says that we can observe the nature and function of consciousness in our daily routine of sleeping, dreaming and waking states. In deep sleep consciousness retires into a state of repose, as it were. When consciousness is absent, there is no sense of one's existence or presence, let alone the existence of the world and its inhabitants, or of any ideas of bondage and liberation. This is so because the very concept of 'I' is absent. In the dream state a speck of consciousness begins to stir— one is not yet fully awake — and then in a split-second, in that speck of consciousness is created an entire world of mountains and valleys, rivers and lakes, cities and villages with buildings and people of various ages, including the dreamer himself. And, what is more important, the dreamer has no control over what the dreamed figures are doing! In other words, a new living world is created in a split-second, fabricated out of memory and imagination merely by a single movement in that speck of consciousness. Imagine, therefore, says Maharaj, the extraordinary power of this consciousness, a mere speck of which can contain and project an entire universe. When the dreamer wakes up, the dream-world and the dreamed figures disappear.

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osho I, ME and MINE:

“In the clarity and silence of meditation the understanding will finally come that "I" was never going to find the solution to the problem of finding Happiness, Peace, Bliss and Self-realization. Because “I" was the problem all along. When the "ego" is the center of our life there are borders, "restrictions" and limitations. When one becomes Self-realized there is unbounded freedom in life without the "me" as the center. Self-realization is unlimited life!

The power that keeps the individual soul bound to the wheel of life and death is its thirst for separate existence. Every thought, feeling or action that springs from this idea of exclusive or separate existence binds. It is for the fulfillment of cravings connected to objects and experiences of the world of duality that the ego-mind keeps on reincarnating itself. All persons have to pass through this state of bondage, but this period of bondage is not to be looked upon as a meaningless episode in the evolution of life. One has to experience being caged if one is to appreciate freedom ! Why do human beings experience loneliness? It must exist because of our actions. Most people’s daily actions are self-centred. Our daily thoughts and activities are concerned with ourselves. The ‘me’ is still going on. As long as there is self-centred activity, there must be loneliness. If our chief concern is ‘me’, then that ‘me’ must act in a very narrow circle. And that action must inevitably produce this exhausting and despairing loneliness. Most of us are lonely. Out of that loneliness, we want companionship. We try to escape from loneliness through every form of entertainment. We try and escape in so many ways. But like a deep disease that must be cured, it is always there, this deep abiding loneliness. Unfortunately nowadays the extroverted mind has created a sort of conditioning all around, where the common mindset is: when you are alone, you feel bad. You have to move, meet people, because every happiness is felt with people and among people. That's not true. The happiness that comes from being with people is very shallow. But the happiness that happens when you are alone is incredibly deep. So start delighting yourself in it ! Through meditation you will learn that aloneness is not aching and fearsome like loneliness. While loneliness with its fear and ache, is isolation and separation, the aloneness of Being is uncorrupted, rich and complete. So don’t be afraid of loneliness and stop running away from it ! When you are really alone and once you have experienced the deepest abyss of loneliness you start to immerse yourself in it and drown completely in yourself. Don't be afraid. At first that sinking will feel like death and you will feel surrounded by a feeling of abyssal sadness. It will surround you, because you have always known happiness only with people and in relationships. Just wait for a while. Let that sinking go down even deeper and you will feel a silence emerging, a deep stillness. This stillness will then eventually expand into an inconceivable Bliss. The ordinary man is incapable of really loving others. Self-centred in the consciousness of “I, me, and mine,” he has not yet discovered the omnipresent God who resides in him and in all other beings. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings. Then only will you be able to love others as your own Self.

In the consciousness of one who is immersed in the Divine love of God, there is no difference between one person and another, no narrowness of caste or creed and no more boundaries of any kind. You will not see anyone as a stranger but all as part of the One Spirit. When you learn to Love God without reservation, He fills your heart with His unconditional Love for all. That Love no human tongue can describe. Life should be chiefly service. Without that ideal, the intelligence that God has given you is not reaching out toward its goal. When in service you forget the little self, you will begin to feel the big Self of Spirit. Cease to think that you are working for yourself and strive to make your daily activities less identified with “me” and “mine” and more identified with God. Each one of you can feel that you are performing all your activities in the consciousness of God by doing your work not with the idea of personal gain, but as a service to God. Rather than be always striving for personal happiness, try to make others happy. In being of spiritual, mental, and material service to others, you will find your own needs fulfilled. As you forget yourself in service to others, you will find that without even seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.” Paramahansa Yogananda Yogivah Giri Osho

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b gita

 Worrying about outcomes

Disciplined people focus on what they can control.

They work steadily towards their goal, but they don’t worry too much about the outcome.

A disciplined person understands that they can’t actually control the outcomes. They can only control their actions, which if done consistently over time, will lead to the desired goal or outcome.

They can’t control whether a novel gets written, but they can control writing 1000 words per day.

Spending too much time thinking about your goals and not taking action is a waste of time.

Disciplined people “set it and forget it”.

Yes, you need to plan your goals and actions initially, and it’s nice to reward yourself once in a while when you’re making progress, but your main focus should be on the small actions you can take right now.

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ndm Maharaj tells us repeatedly that we are so accustomed to thinking of ourselves as bodies having consciousness, that we find it very difficult to accept or even understand the real position. Actually it is consciousness which manifests itself in innumerable bodies. It is, therefore, essential to apperceive that birth and death are nothing but the beginning and the ending of a stream of movements in consciousness, interpreted as events in space-time. If we can realize this, we shall also realize that we are pure being-awareness-bliss in our original pristine state, and when in touch with consciousness, we are only the witnessing of (and totally apart from) the various movements in consciousness. This is an indisputable fact, because obviously, we cannot be what we perceive; the perceiver must be different from what he perceives.

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