What is your favorite letter in the alphabet?
Answer: W
It is double you
:)
I was contemplating yesterday's note on wholeness as I drove home, when my son asked me what is the favorite letter in the alphabet: W, he said, it is double you! Wow, isn't it amazing how connected we are. Yes, W stands for wholeness and it is the double you: the conscious part as well as the subconscious. A spiritual path is all about getting all the wisdom, beauty and spirituality out of the basement of our being while shining away all the dark matter that troubles our soul.
Let the Tao make you the wholesome person that you are.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
You Simply Are
In an experiment people where hypnotized and told to get up in a business meeting at a particular time and water the plants. Indeed, in the middle of a business meeting these people got up and watered the plants. When they were asked what made them do it, they gave all kind of reasons such as 'The plant suddenly looked really thirsty'. The point is that they had no clue why they were doing this bizarre behavior, but they felt they could explain it nevertheless. Not a single person said 'You know what, I have no clue why I did what I did'.
You simply are; you are driven by all kind of things. The scent or the height of a person, the intensity of the sunshine, the prevalence of clouds, the background noise of laughter, engines or birds, the way you have slept, the amount of coffee you have had, your hormones, the lunar and solar fluctuations. You take it all in and you make your all the choices in your day under the influence of all these factors and then you wrap some rationality around why you do what you do. You make decisions and then explain mentally to yourself why you made them.
There are a number of ways we can deal with this insight. We can shrug and say 'whatever'; we can try to understand and analyze all these biases to the best of our abilities in order to make better conscious choices. Or we can conjecture that we are just part of a magnificent movie plot, that is, we are being set up for a reason. The latter approach is the philosophy of the Tao. Everything that happens to you is perfect as is from the perspective of bringing you home. There is no need to explain anything consciously and rationally because everything just happens the way is supposed to along the Tao. While the spiritual journey starts with decisions, with many wrong turns along the Way; soon enough you just wander along the path subconsciously. It is the journey home, the connection with the Source which is effortless, thoughtless, but full of joy and peace.
You simply are; you are driven by all kind of things. The scent or the height of a person, the intensity of the sunshine, the prevalence of clouds, the background noise of laughter, engines or birds, the way you have slept, the amount of coffee you have had, your hormones, the lunar and solar fluctuations. You take it all in and you make your all the choices in your day under the influence of all these factors and then you wrap some rationality around why you do what you do. You make decisions and then explain mentally to yourself why you made them.
There are a number of ways we can deal with this insight. We can shrug and say 'whatever'; we can try to understand and analyze all these biases to the best of our abilities in order to make better conscious choices. Or we can conjecture that we are just part of a magnificent movie plot, that is, we are being set up for a reason. The latter approach is the philosophy of the Tao. Everything that happens to you is perfect as is from the perspective of bringing you home. There is no need to explain anything consciously and rationally because everything just happens the way is supposed to along the Tao. While the spiritual journey starts with decisions, with many wrong turns along the Way; soon enough you just wander along the path subconsciously. It is the journey home, the connection with the Source which is effortless, thoughtless, but full of joy and peace.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Using The Law of Attraction for Spiritual Growth
The Law of Attraction states that you attract everything that happens to you. The 'secret crowd'tries you exploit this law in order to get something. I tend to use the LoA in an indirect fashion. Observe everything that happens to you, and try to monitor your subconscious game plan accordingly. If problems hit you, that just means that you have to dig down deep and figure out which psychological hurdles you still have to take. Viewed from this perspective there is really nothing to fear. Everything that happens to you is just a perfect opportunity to become whole here right now.
What exactly do you know about your subconscious, well little to nothing, that's the whole point of the below-your-conscious-surface expression. The good news though, the environment that you are creating for yourself with all the personal interactions that you are experiencing speaks volumes about what is going on below the surface. Whenever I feel tensions in myself, or face resistance with people or in situations, I always ask myself 'What is the learning opportunity here?' Until the day when you are whole, that is when everything you do reflects your true - conscious as well as subconscious - being, you will always attract healing opportunities into your life. Welcome them and put your best foot forward and before you know it, the lesson plan will be completed.
The master of 'the secret' - if something like that is possible - will have everything. But will she have the secret to happiness? The Tao master will do God's will instead, moment by moment, and with it happiness is guaranteed. Peace and happiness implies ever-present connectedness with the Source.
What exactly do you know about your subconscious, well little to nothing, that's the whole point of the below-your-conscious-surface expression. The good news though, the environment that you are creating for yourself with all the personal interactions that you are experiencing speaks volumes about what is going on below the surface. Whenever I feel tensions in myself, or face resistance with people or in situations, I always ask myself 'What is the learning opportunity here?' Until the day when you are whole, that is when everything you do reflects your true - conscious as well as subconscious - being, you will always attract healing opportunities into your life. Welcome them and put your best foot forward and before you know it, the lesson plan will be completed.
The master of 'the secret' - if something like that is possible - will have everything. But will she have the secret to happiness? The Tao master will do God's will instead, moment by moment, and with it happiness is guaranteed. Peace and happiness implies ever-present connectedness with the Source.
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