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Compassion 5

Mohanji: From Mankind to A Kind Man

December 25, 2020 Uncategorizedcompassion, mohanji

The need of the hour is the human refinement 

In the very first Premier episode of World Consciousness Alliance’s (WCA) online talk show, Renaissance of Humanity, Conversations for Change series, we had the pleasure to talk with the founder and inspiration for WCA, Mohanji.

Mohanji is a world renowned humanitarian who catalyzes change wherever he goes. This is a summary of a deeply insightful chat with Mohanji, where he shares his vision of transforming the world from MANKIND to A KIND MAN.

World Consciousness Alliance has launched two years ago in South Africa. What was the aim of founding WCA, and creating the platform of the World Consciousness Alliance? 

Mohanji: I had a dream to shift mankind to a kind man. I was thinking that we should do something much more different than the type of selfless activities we normally do such as charity work. So, the dream was to transform mankind to a kind man to peacefully coexist. To love unconditionally and to be free.

I also have a dream to establish the goodness factor, as the law and benchmark of human refinement. We are always looking at rich people as successful people, but many of the rich people have only money and no contentment. The goodness factor means inner richness. What we share with the world stabilizes us and makes us really refined.

Idea of WCA is that through performing arts, media, movies, we positively transform this world by promoting goodness and righteousness factor, reaching the hearts of millions of people in the world. And thus, eradicate violence, divisions, corruption, greed, and disturbances. And there is the highest possibility to express and experience the highest of human potential.

And thus, we can create a heaven on earth. It is not just an imagination. It is possible, and we are working towards that. And it is happening as we talk.

And when all the artists and the people of higher frequency come together, it is a completely different world because we’re not talking about anger, hatred, greed, jealousy and all those kinds of base emotions. We are only talking about compassion, kindness, unconditional love, selflessness, and those kind of higher possibilities of human existence. And that makes a huge difference in the world moment right now.  

Can you elaborate on what you mean by Goodness & Righteousness Factor? 

Mohanji: When somebody asks me ‘where would you like to go?’, I think the answer is the same for all people. The place where you are loved, wanted, appreciated, and respected. If we cultivate this idea of respect, this idea of a universal law of kindness and compassion everywhere, every place on this Earth would be home for us. It does not matter which country, nationality, color, complexion, and community you are from; everything is ours. Every place is good for us. We are one with all the places.

That is the philosophy of WCA. Create an earth without boundaries, without all man-made barriers, including language and religion; we should have nothing to do with them. We can all contribute to everybody. This is the kind of lifestyle or energy I have envisaged. If we create such an environment where everyone is loved everywhere, then they would be at home everywhere.

Do you think that humanity is ready to transform from humankind to kind human? Do you think that this virus that is impacting so many lives can act as a catalyst to force us to start looking within and find the answers that we were always looking for on the outside? 

Mohanji: We have always been ready. I think the humankind is always ready, but what holds us back is the compulsive and habitual lifestyle. When a child is born, the child is the responsibility of the society, not just the parents. So how do we mold the child, or does the child get molded automatically? That is the beginning of the lifestyle process.

In fact, humankind, loves to be kind. Look at ourselves. That is why I said earlier: Where do you like to go? Where you are loved. Where people love you, which is where we would like to go. We love to be loved and we respond to love. This is our nature. But then all these the dividers, and divisions we have experienced over time has kept us apart – me and you. We have to dissolve as one. For example, you know everybody feels good when we laugh. These are all very natural and normal things we normally respond to. Similarly, we like to respond to love.

And we also respond to fear. When is fear necessary for controlling? When the person is insecure. If we are really secure, we do not need to use fear at all. But what we see in the world now is fear. This virus, this pandemic is literally releasing all sorts of fear. The fundamental fear of every human being is fear of death. Even though death is inevitable and guaranteed, we are afraid of death. That is not only for human beings. All beings are afraid of death. Because that is connected to one of the most fundamental instinct of all beings – Survival. And death is against the survival instinct. That is why we are afraid of death. This is accented now.

But look at the positive side, people used to go into isolation to find themselves. Now, in this situation, the governments are giving us isolation. So, we can find ourselves now. And that is a good thing. You don’t have to go to Himalayas to find yourselves.

If we shift from loneliness to aloneness, we can achieve a lot in this time. There is a positive side to it.

Can we make a real change? 

Mohanji: We are making changes already. What I see is the deep craving to find the truth. And at the same time, the compulsive habitual fears and the usual life patterns are pulling us on one side. That is inevitable, but we are still stable because we have realized that there is something deeper and larger and much more meaningful in our whole system.  The pandemic has given us a reset button; so, it is now a good time to push the reset button, and restart.

How should we help the next generation, especially the children as parents to explore and live their dreams? How do we catalyze this change and not become overwhelmed with all things are going on around us? In terms of the fear, the competition, the panic, etc., the reactions to those inevitably creep into parenting. 

Mohanji: We want the best for the children, but sometimes we don’t allow the children to live to be their individual selves because, sometimes, many of us want our children to live our dreams because we failed in actualizing our own dreams. I would say lead by example. Live it. If you really mean to show it to children, you have got to live it. Otherwise, whatever you preach will not work, but if you live it, it will work. Parents should tell their children only where to look but not what to see. Because children have individuality, we should respect that. Just tell them where to look. Do not tell them what to see.

Any final words? 

Let us come together and stay together. Together we can transform the world.

From Mankind to Kind Man. All we need is love. It is OK to be imperfect. I look at myself as a bundle of imperfection. I do not really struggle to make me perfect and try to prove to the world that I am perfect, which I am not. Then what we can do in this world is within our capacities. If we join all our capacities, it will become a movement.

WCA is a movement and we are seeing it now. We have a lot of work to do and we are doing it. Let us stay together. More people will join in and it will really show in the world.

Let’s all REIMAGINE a world driven by kindness, compassion, and selflessness and come together to make it a reality.

REIMAGINE

Lazy in this afternoon,

Laying myself on a green turf,

I gently gaze at the blue sky,

And wonder…

I wonder how the world would be, 

Without us people on it. 

Reimagine… Reimagine. 

As I rewind my thoughts, 

I give flight to my mind and Reimagine,

A world of love… love and love…a bright new world so vast in variety,

Where all beings live in peace and love in dreams, 

Integrity and harmony. Reimagine. 

Reimagine, 

No men on earth, only blue skies and birds,

Only happiness and peace – life and harmony.

Reimagine, 

Sealife blissful swims – in blissful seas. 

No fear… no fear… of humans.

Reimagine… Reimagine.

Reimagine a world of beings not men,

Beings in nature, all wild and free,

Living in perfect harmony, 

Heaven on earth, heaven on earth.

Reimagine… Reimagine.

No people, No religion,

No divisions, No countries,

No bitterness, No enmities,

No anger, no jealousy,

No comparisons,

No competitions. 

Reimagine… Reimagine,

No hatred,  No wars, 

Nothing to kill for,  Nothing to die for, 

No heaven,  No hell, 

And no fear of a punishing god,

Reimagine… Reimagine.

No sin,  No redemption, 

No binding, No liberation,

No greedy minds to conquer the moons.

Reimagine… 

No money to hide, 

No wealth to hoard.

Nothing to steal or withhold,

No betrayals. No hatred.

Peace my love. Only peace within, peace around. 

Peace in abundance, my love.

Peace in abundance.

Ohhhh….

Reimagine,

No men on earth, only blue skies and birds,

Only happiness and peace – life and harmony.

Reimagine,

Sealife blissful swims – in blissful seas, 

No fear… no fear… of humans,

Reimagine… Reimagine.

My darling,  Just compassion, gratitude,

Humility, respect, selflessness,

Ahimsa, ahimsa, ahimsa,

No violence,

No betrayals,

No hatred,

No enmities,

No man made barriers,

No borders,

No boundaries,

No worries,

No displacements,

No sorrows.

Just freedom and love.

Just love, my love.

Reimagine…

A world of beauty and harmony,

A world of love where kindness lives and compassion thrives.

My friend, Reimagine. Oh, Dream. 

Reimagine…

No men on earth, only blue skies and birds,

Only happiness and peace – life and harmony.

Reimagine…

Sealife blissful swims – in blissful seas,

No fear… no fear… of humans.

Reimagine…

Reimagine, 

No men on earth, only blue skies and birds,

Only happiness and peace – life and harmony.

Reimagine, 

Sealife blissful swims – in blissful seas,

No fear… no fear… of humans.

Reimagine… 

Copyright(c) 2020, World Consciousness Alliance, All Rights Reserved

The Taste of Freedom

April 20, 2020 Uncategorizedcompassion

Dear Sara, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Hello everyone, today I am going to tell you a little bit about myself. I am Sara Bulatovic. I am disabled. I have cerebral palsy, which limits me in my daily life, I have to use the wheelchair everyday to get  out and get to places. But I still see myself as a normal person even though I have a disability.

How you get along with your peers? Would you say that your life is different than the life of your friends and in which way?

I see myself, compare to my friends as I am a normal person like them. The difference is that I use the wheelchair. Everything else is mostly the same. We like the same things, like music, same subjects. We have similar interests because we are mostly the same age group.

When was the first time you experienced volunteering and how would you describe it?

I have been volunteering for a couple of years. I first started doing the volunteer work for ACT Foundation in 2014. I went to a teenage shelter to do a soup kitchen, for street children. Even since then I have been volunteering at every soup kitchen that ACT Foundation does in South Africa. That gives me more purpose of my life, to help other people.

As someone who got used to live with the help of other people, what was the feeling of being able to help others?

I feel a relief when I help others because it shows me that I am the same like them. It is the real freedom to be able to help others, because you see you are the same like other people.

Do you have role models and what do you appreciate about them?

I am motivated by Pieter Du Preez. He is paralised man. He became paralised in bike accident a few years ago. Since then, he also uses the wheelchair every day to get around to places. Being in the wheelchair doesn’t stop him doing what he likes. He does the sport called Ironman and shows people what can you achieve in life, no matter if you are paralized or not. And he actually does a regular job in his everyday life, he is a actuarial analyst. He works with numbers on a daily basis, in a normal office. And he actually drives a car like normal people. So those are the reasons why I admire him so much.

What is your message to people who feel powerless and what to bring positive change in their life?

People who have challenges in their life must not let challenges bring them down. They need to know that they are more then their challenges. People can do in their life whatever they want. They just need to believe in that. They must go with what makes them feel comfortable.

Caring for Others Is Caring for Ourselves

April 20, 2020 Uncategorizedcompassion

Helping, providing, feeding, reaching out, listening, protecting, looking after. All of the actions related to caring require bravery and generosity, because they involve a lot of effort.

However, even though they can be difficult, they also bring us a lot of hidden benefits. It’s confusing to think that we receive something when we give to other people. Those who are less inclined toward being caring toward others have a hard time understanding why caring people do the things they do.

You don’t have to look very hard to see what distinguishes caring people from everybody else. All you have to do is just open your eyes and look. They listen to people who ask for something to eat, people who want them to sign a petition, people who want to chat for a while.

What does “caring” mean?

The word “care” comes from the Old English word caru. If you look up the dictionary definition, you’ll find words like: worry, concern, attention, solicitude, and protection. “Care” also refers to providing for, looking out for, or protecting someone.

Think of a time when you cared for someone or something, like your child, a pet, or a plant. Caring involves dedicating yourself them, putting your own needs aside, and paying attention to what they need.

The type of care needed is different depending on who or what is being cared for. You dress children, bring pets to the vet, and water plants. When you care for someone, the actual action isn’t as important as the attitude that you have towards them. You can even care for objects (like a car or a house), as well as abstract concepts (like ideologies and values), and it’s always the same: you offer them your time and dedication to protect them and make sure that they don’t become damaged or corrupted.

Do I have to take care of myself first?

You probably know the phrase “love yourself so you can love others.” It’s the same with taking care of someone. First, you have to take care of yourself so that you’ll be able to take care of someone else.

Here’s a practical example that shows how necessary it is to take care of ourselves so that we can take care of others. Aviation protocol dictates that when turbulence occurs and the oxygen masks fall, we should put our own on first, and then help our children with theirs. Is this the behavior of a bad parent? Not at all. It means that you’re taking care of your physical safety so that you can take care of the child, because if you didn’t do it for yourself, nobody else would do it for you.

You can’t try to spend hours upon sleepless hours taking care of a sick family member if you don’t get any sleep. You need to be awake and able to pay attention to their needs. You’re not being selfish; it’s actually the opposite. You’re preparing yourself to help them in an intelligent, instead of desperate, manner.

Don’t confuse self-love with selfishness. Don’t feel guilty. Selfish people only help others because it inflates their own ego. People who have self-love realize that if they first respect themselves, it will be much easier to respect others.

Taking care of others is taking care of yourself

To quote another popular saying: “Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t want them to do to you.” Or, in a more positive form, “treat others the way you would want to be treated.”

When you take care of someone, you should think about the way you would want them to take care of you. If you were sick, what would you want your caretaker to keep in mind? If you were a child, how would your mother or father protect you? When you get old, how do you want your loved ones to take care of you?

Taking care of someone is one of the most noble things that we could aspire to do. It makes us useful and valuable to ourselves and others. Maybe God, or Karma, or the world, won’t thank you, but your heart certainly will.

 

 

Article source: exploringyourmind.com

Intelligence, love, and compassion

June 17, 2019 Uncategorizedcompassion, love

I wonder if we could forget all that we have been talking about during the last five gatherings here and begin as though we are meeting for the first time. And not having heard what has been said, start anew, start afresh so that perhaps we may be able to find some abiding truthful solution to all our complexities and problems.

What is the central issue that, if we went into it carefully, diligently, hesitantly, we would come upon, that which may resolve all our sorrows, griefs, anxieties, the depressions, the failures, the fulfilments, the frustrations and all that? Is there one solution, or one observation, one insight, one comprehension that will bring about a total revolution psychologically in each one of us? You understand my question? One answer – absolute, irrevocable, not relative, but complete, whole, lasting, and yet timeless. Is there such a solution?

If each one of us put that question to ourselves, would we answer it according to our particular pleasure, to our particular experience, to our own knowledge? Or would we, if we are at all serious and not too flippant, could we investigate together to find out a remedy that will enlighten our hearts and minds? Can we look at the whole of life, not one particular segment, one particular part, one idiosyncrasy, try to find an answer politically, religiously – I am using the word ‘religiously’ rather sceptically – economically, and so on? Can we look at all these divisions which man has brought about as a whole? To look at this world outside of us with all its innumerable divisions, and inwardly, psychologically we are fragmented, broken up. And one asks oneself if it is possible to see the whole of this outer and inner as a total movement, indivisible, as a whole structural movement of thought? Is that possible? Or our minds are so broken up, so fragmented, so divided, that we are incapable of seeing the whole movement of life as one unitary movement. You understand?

Please, as we said the other day, and if I may repeat: we are thinking over together this question, together, not that the speaker investigates and you listen, but rather together you and the speaker find out for oneself if there is a way of living which is comprehensive, which is whole, which is not yours or mine, but a life that is a movement without a beginning and without an end. To find that out, I think it is important, if one may point out, to be aware of one’s own fragmentary outlook. You are either a psychologist, psychotherapist, and you are trained along that particular line, and so one’s brain, one’s conditioning, is already established, and therefore one cannot see the whole. Or you may be a businessman, again the same phenomena takes place. Or if you are a politician then you are doomed. Or if you are a religious man, inclined to be religious, not accepting any particular dogma, creed, ritual, all that. Or an ordinary human being – of which we are all part of this – with all his anxieties, with his sorrows and pleasures and fears, competition, comparison, measuring himself against others, and always trying to reach something which he has projected, and hopes to find it.

So are we together aware of our fragmentation – actually aware of it? Not imagine that you are fragmented and then think that you are. You follow? Either the idea of fragmentation is so strong, and that idea shapes our thinking, then you think that I am fragmented, or one observes the actual state of the mind which is fragmented, broken up, shrivelled. Can such a mind observe this extraordinary complex movement, with its great beauty, subtlety, can one observe this totally? You understand my question?

Please, you are not listening to me. I only happen to be sitting on the platform for the convenience of you all so that you can see the speaker, but the speaker is not the authority. In spiritual matters, in the matters of the spirit, in the matters of the investigation, there is no authority, no guru, which is obvious. That is, if you carry the knowledge of others – and perhaps all knowledge is the result of others – and add your own particular knowledge to the accumulated knowledge already in your brain, then to find out if there is one act, one state of mind that will solve all our problems. Do you understand what we are talking about? Are we meeting each other about the question itself?

Ignorance is part of knowledge. Right? I wonder if you see that. You know the whole concept of a priest, the guru, the one who knows, in that concept, in that conviction, there is the one who is enlightened, clear, and helps the other to free himself from his own ignorance. And generally, and often, and very, very, very rarely, the authority who has knowledge tries to dispel the ignorance of the other but his knowledge is still part of ignorance. You are following all this? And here, in these gatherings that we have had for the last nearly twenty years, there is no authority whatsoever. Because authority of any kind in spiritual matters makes you a prisoner to another’s system, conviction, ideas, knowledge. Then in that there is no freedom. And to find out if there is a solution to all our complex innumerable problems, is there one seeing, one perception, one observation that frees completely the whole of this structure which man has put together, psychologically? You understand? Are we meeting each other?

You see to go into this one must have great humility; not humbleness, not sycophantism, not touching somebody’s robes and saying ‘I am very humble’. That quality of humility that has had no vanity, that has never known vanity. You understand? Otherwise it is not humility. Go into this carefully. Those who are vain, arrogant, full of their own importance and their own knowledge, their own realisation, and all that business, in that there is a sense of self-importance. And that state of mind then cultivates humility. Haven’t you known all this? So a mind that has known vanity in any direction – scientifically, religiously, politically, the sense of achievement which gives one a great self-importance and arrogance – such a mind can never comprehend a quality which is totally free of vanity. We are meeting all this?

And people have also tried, for millennia upon millennia, to find that absolute solution to their lives through austerity. Austerity is harsh, strict, severe, stridently noisy – right? – stridently strict: putting on robes – sorry, I am not talking of those gentlemen here – putting on robes of different colours all over the world and imagine that they are stridently simple. It is only the noise of their simplicity that prevents them from being simple. Because when you are simple it doesn’t matter what clothes you have on. But clothes have become extraordinarily important in the world, in the religious world, indicating a tradition which you accept and thereby hope to lead a simple life. Man has tried several things, played so many tricks upon himself, and those of us, if we are at all serious, and efficiently, honestly trying to find out a way of life and therefore a way of action, which comes from the comprehension, from the perception of that one solution. Right? Are we meeting each other? Don’t be angry with me please, those of you who have got this, different robes and so on, we have been through all that. It doesn’t mean a thing.

I once followed in the Himalayas a group of monks. It was a beautiful country, wild rhododendrons, lilies, the flowers of the alps of that altitude, and the great pine trees shooting into the heavens, blue skies and the birds were singing. It was a lovely day. And these monks never looked up, never looked at the trees, the flowers, the skies and the wonder of the world because they were concerned about their own ritual, their own mantras repeating. And they think through that way they will find the heaven.

Here, if one may point out, the meaning of the word ‘mantra’; probably you all know about it. It is a Sanskrit word which means – please listen – which means consider, meditate, ponder over not becoming, and also put aside all self-centred activity. That word ‘mantra’ means that. Consider, go into your own becoming and put aside every form of selfish activity – that is the real meaning of that word. And look what these yogis have done to that word! You understand?

So seeing all this, the various forms of physical torture in order to find enlightenment, various forms of rituals, robes, repetitions, and these have not in any way changed human being and his relationship so that there is a new good society. We mean by that word ‘good’ not the nursery meaning, ‘Be a good boy’. It is not a respectable word, it is not a word that you can say, ‘Well, that is old fashioned, throw it out,’ but that word ‘good’ has an excellent meaning, significance. And man through all these endeavours has never brought about a good society where people live happily, without conflict, without violence, with a great sense of responsibility, with care, with affection. That is what we mean by that word ‘good’. Man has not been able to achieve it. One of the main reasons for this ugliness in the world is that all of us, most human beings, probably 99%, are fragmented, broken up. And when one realises this, that one is in a state of fragmentation, one is cognisant of it, aware without any choice – it is so. It is not that the speaker is imposing this on you, but it is a fact. And can that mind which is fragmented, can that heart which is also caught up in various romantic, emotional, sentimental, illusory nonsense, can that mind ever come to this, to find a solution that is everlasting? You understand my question? Right?

How shall we find it? Is it dependent on another? Follow this carefully. Can another, however much he may think he is lord and this and the other, can another lead you or help you to that? Right? Please ask this question. Can a group, can a community, can a series of ideas, conclusions, help you to that? Or one must be a light to oneself, not the light which has been kindled at the other’s lamp or candle, or fire. You are following this? Please, give your heart to understand all this! Which means not only your heart, your mind, your brain. Freedom is not acting according to whatever you like. That is too childish, which is what is happening in the world, because everybody is doing what they want. And any prevention, any restraint on that is considered lack of fulfilment. Therefore permissiveness in every direction, religiously, socially, morally, is encouraged. And this permissiveness, that is doing exactly what one likes, or saying ‘It appeals to me, I feel good in that’, denies freedom – we are talking psychologically not freedom from law, from the policeman, from taxes – but freedom from the dependence on another psychologically, because the other, when he instructs you from his knowledge, from his position, from his status, that knowledge is still part of ignorance, because knowledge can never be complete, therefore it is always part of ignorance. Right? I wonder if you see that. Of course.

Because knowledge can never be whole, can never be complete, total. And therefore in it there is ignorance. When you realise that, when you see that, that you cannot possibly… in matters of the spirit, in matters of the psyche, in the matters of deep religious enquiry, there is no dependence completely on anybody. That is freedom, with its responsibility to be a light to oneself. Are you following all this? Are we like that? Because we are going together to find out, please, find out for ourselves, not at the behest of another, not stimulated by another, not encouraged by another, but find out for oneself totally, completely – which is not egotistic – so that one can be a light to oneself. Right?

Are we together in this? – not agreeing, not being cornered in a tent and therefore you are forced to agree, or stimulated by the speaker with his intensity. If you are, then it is just a flame that can be blown out by the next wind.

So having said all this, is your mind – your mind being your brain, your senses, the quality of thinking, knowing its limitation, being prepared – not prepared, I won’t use that word ‘prepared’, preparation implies time, that is one of our pet theories, that we need time to be a light to oneself – are our minds after listening to all this, even though you are listening for the first time. And it is only you are actually listening for the first time if you are really paying attention. You know it is like looking at the sunset or the sunrise, the beauty and the extraordinary light is never the same. You can see it day after day, day after day, month after month, you never say, ‘Well, I have seen it once, it is enough’. If we have paid attention to what has been said, and what is being said, it is not a repetition. Beauty is never that which is constantly happening, it is always new. A marvellous classical painting, or if you listen to music, it is new all the time. But our minds get so dulled by words and by the repetition of words you say, ‘I am bored with it. You have said all that before’. But if you listen there is always something new, like the sunset, like the evening star, like the waters of a river. We have still time!

We are asking you – together – if our minds and therefore our hearts, our whole being, senses, the quality of the senses which are not divided – you understand? – which are together, and a thought and thinking, knowing that it is limited, fragmented, always of time, and a brain that is the result of millennia, conditioned, full of memories, knowledge, experience, like a computer, but of course it is much more capable than a computer, the brain has invented the computer, but the brain also is active as a computer. So we are saying the whole of this, can we enquire with this quality of mind? Or just be in a state of observation, just to observe without the observer. Because the observer is the past, the observer is the result of all the experience, senses, responses, reactions, memories, he is that. To observe without the observer, so that there is only pure observation, not distorted, not broken-up, not the result of choice, like and – you know, just to observe.

Then in that state of pure observation is there one act, one insight, one total perception of something that will resolve all these problems? You have understood? There is. Now careful! The speaker says there is. You know nothing about it, naturally. If you are aware of it you wouldn’t be here. The speaker says – and please listen carefully – it is not authority, it is not the result of experience, it is not the result of accumulated knowledge, it is none of that. The speaker says there is a solution, a way out of all this terrible confusion and misery and fear, torture and terror. Right? So don’t accept it. Where are you at the end of this? Please I am asking this – the speaker is asking this very seriously. We have talked for twenty minutes, an hour, forty minutes, fifty minutes; at the end of it what is the quality of your mind that is capable – please listen – capable of receiving something. You say, ‘Yes’, and the ‘yes’ is your own discovery, your own light, your own total attention which you have given to find this out.

Let me go into it carefully. One must have intelligence. Intelligence is different from knowledge. In knowledge, as we pointed out earlier, there is ignorance. Right? Whereas intelligence is free from ignorance and therefore free from illusion, and it is not the result of accumulated knowledge – right? – intelligence. The quality of intelligence comes when there is perception and action. That is, perception and no interval between perception and action. You see, act. I wonder if you understand this. Are you following this? You see danger – right? – like a precipice. And the very perception is action, you move away instantly. That is intelligence. That is part of that intelligence. You see a dangerous snake – and instant action. Right? That’s fairly simple because there it is a physical response. And the physical reaction is self-preservation, which is intelligence. It is the unintelligent that sees the danger and pursues it. You understand? Intelligence is the perception of that which is psychologically dangerous and acting instantly. That is intelligence. Psychologically it is dangerous to depend on another: for affection, for love, for comfort, for enlightenment, that is dangerous because you are not free. And therefore the very perception of that danger and the acting of it is intelligence. Right?

One must have that quality of intelligence. That intelligence is denied when you are conforming to a pattern laid down by the gurus, by – it doesn’t matter who – some idiotic person, or conforming, imitating, following. Therefore there is the ideal and the action which is different from the ideal, or conforming, or adjusting to the ideal – which is lack of perception – right? – lack of seeing the actual movement of this. And when there is perception, the ideal, the imitation, the conformity, following, totally ends and that is intelligence. You are following all this? I am not defining intelligence. It is so. It is only the neurotic that sees the danger and continues. The neurotic, the stupid, the thoughtless, the man who just follows his own particular idiosyncrasy, pleasures, and gives it a rational meaning and so on.

So one must have this quality of intelligence. Then with that intelligence is there a state, a movement or whatever you like to call it, which can solve all these innumerable conflicts and miseries? You are following all this? The mind that is totally intelligent. And that mind is enquiring.

 

 

Article source: jkrishnamurti.org

The Healing Power of Love

May 26, 2015 Consciousnesscompassion, empathy, expressing love, love healing, power of love
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I remember when my first spiritual teacher told me that love was the most important thing there was, that it could transcend and heal all things. I thought he was crazy, not the love I was familiar with. The love that I knew was learned from those perfect families on TV and any of that I received from my family came at too high a cost. So if that was what I needed to heal I’d rather stay broken. Little did I know how wrong that I was!

My difficulty with love growing up was that I really didn’t know much about it. It was so rarely mirrored for me in my family so that my perception of what it was became skewed. I remember as a little boy waking up early in the morning and running into my parent’s room and jumping under the covers to snuggle with my father. I felt safe, special and wanted.  Even today, fifty years later I can still remember the how he smelled. But as my family life changed drastically behind my mother’s alcoholism and its effects on my parent’s relationship and our family, those types of interactions with my father stopped. As a child with limited understanding, I thought that the fact that the nurturing ended was because I had done something wrong. This sparked behaviors of seeking for love and acceptance that were very detrimental to my well being.

Addictive Behavior pioneer and lecturer Earnie Larson describes these behaviors changes so simply

“What we live with we learn, what we learn we practice, what we practice we become and what we become has consequences.”

Love became something that I thought had to earn. My life became a game of cause and effect. The game was that I had to determine who I needed to be for you to love me and become that person. That who I really was did not deserve love. How painful and tiring it was to realize that I spent most of my time tap dancing as fast as I could and jumping through hoops to get the love that was mine because I was a child of god.

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It has been a difficult, long and sometimes painful journey back to love and it has been worth every minute of it. I have learned that the feelings of love can sooth us, bring you to tears and warm your heart. But more importantly that the actions of love can and will heal the world. It is the courage that comes from self love that allows us to act.  It is true that in order to heal we will need healing acts from others but, it must start with us. This will allow us learn to act in a loving way towards others. My father is one of the gentlest souls that I know. But growing up he rarely acted from that place with me. He was overly critical; nothing was good enough for him. I understand today that he could only give me what he had received growing up. Having love in our heart is not the end, it is the beginning. A feeling of love unexpressed in action is wasted.

Love can be expressed in so many ways: compassion, giving of your time, showing up, understanding, empathy, listening not just hearing (there is a difference), patience, gentleness, teaching, encouragement, tolerance, acceptance, forgiveness, a hug,  support and speaking the truth.

I have spent a great deal of time over the years seeking spiritual enlightenment through prayer, meditation, contemplation, reading, personal growth and workshops to relearn an old lesson. Simplicity is the highest form of intelligence. Walking and living in love is the highest spiritual plane. Living in love allows us to make decisions based in love. Love based decisions take into account all those that are concerned with and effected by the decision. Not making decisions from a place of love is one of reasons that even though the US is considered the riches nation in the world, we have children going to bed hungry and citizens that are homeless.
Living love is available to us all and it is as simple as making a choice.

 

 

 

paulAuthor: Paul Hellwig
A recovering addict with over 25 years clean. Over 23 years of experience in personal, emotional and spiritual growth work. In the process of becoming a Certified Life Coach.
www.mycouragetoheal.com
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