A Simple Truth

[Lion Spirit Walker]

'Do unto others...'
A very simple truth. To treat others as we ourselves wish to be treated.
So very simple. Yet such a tremendous difference it would make in the world if more of us lived this truth.
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[BlueStar]

The simplest truths are often the most profound and powerful

[Kiran]

It is my mantra and how I try to live my life. Good post Michael...thank you

[planetlove]

Lesson 247 from Merging with Siva

How We Face Our Karma


How can we work out karma? There are thousands of things vibrating in the muladhara chakra, and from those memory patterns they are going to bounce up into view one after another, especially if we gain more prana by breathing and eating correctly. When meditation begins, more karma is released from the first chakra. Our individual karma is intensified as the ingrained memory patterns that were established long ago accumulate and are faced, one after another, after another, after another.

In our first four or five years of striving on the path we face the karmic patterns that we would never have faced in this life had we not consciously sought enlightenment. Experiences come faster, closer together. So much happens in the short span of a few months or even a few days, catalyzed by the new energies released in meditation and by our efforts to purify mind and body, it might have taken us two or three lifetimes to face them all. They would not have come up before then, because nothing would have stimulated them.

First, we must know fully that we ourselves are the cause of all that happens. As long as we externalize the source of our successes and failures, we perpetuate the cycles of karma, good or bad. As long as we blame others for our problems or curse the seeming injustices of life, we will not find within ourselves the understanding of karmic laws that will transmute our unresolved patterns. We must realize that every moment in our life, every joy and every sorrow, can be traced to some source within us. There is no one "out there" making it all happen. We make it happen or not happen according to the actions we perform, the attitudes we hold and the thoughts we think. Therefore, by gaining conscious control of our thoughts and attitudes by right action, we can control the flow of karma. Karma, then, is our best spiritual teacher. We spiritually learn and grow as our actions return to us to be resolved and dissolved.

The second way to face karma is in deep sleep and meditation. Seeds of karma that have not even expressed themselves can be traced in deep meditation by one who has many years of experience in the within. Having pinpointed the unmanifested karmic seed, the jnani can either dissolve it in intense light or inwardly live through the reaction of his past action. If his meditation is successful, he will be able to throw out the vibrating experiences or desires which are consuming the mind. In doing this, in traveling past the world of desire, he breaks the wheel of karma which binds him to the specific reaction which must follow every action. That experience will never have to happen on the physical plane, for its vibrating power has already been absorbed in his nerve system.

[planetlove]

I get these lessons sent to me everyday....
I hope you don't mind that i shared it with you ....

doing onto others as you would like done onto yourself...
this is KARMA in action....
you d something good
something good will come your way .....

I live as a good person everyday ....living as if it would be my last.....
hope you njoy these few lines from the MASTER COURSE

Lesson 247 from Living with Siva

Karma Is Always Just

We see reincarnation as an explanation for many of the apparent inequalities observed in life. Thus we understand the fairness even in a bad birth, say a birth as a cripple or a child who dies in infancy. To the Hindu this is not an accident, but is a natural event brought forth by the soul itself through the karma of unseemly acts and desires in a previous life. To the Hindu there is not one force in the universe at work to make all things good and an opposing force trying to destroy the soul. No. All is God's work. All karma is natural and worthy of the soul to which it comes.

The Hindu knows that it is the younger souls who lack understanding, who cannot live in harmony with others and who shun the higher forms of culture and faith. Rather than inheriting eternal suffering for their acts, they earn instead another opportunity for experience, for learning, for evolving. The ideas of sin and evil are different in Hinduism from the concepts held by Abrahamic religions. If there is such a thing as sin to the Hindu, it is the breaking of the natural laws, a lapse in the patterns of karma and dharma, and that transgression brings its own punishment in the form of an additional karma created to then be worked out. Thus the Hindu does not live in fear of sin or under the notion of original sin. We do not look upon humanity as inherently sinful, but inherently perfect and striving to unfold that perfection from within. The Hindu knows that we will have as many opportunities as needed to refine and evolve our nature--a thousand lives or more if needed. We don't have to think that we only have a single chance, a one life in which everything must be accomplished and all desires must be fulfilled. Therefore, we are not in a hurry. We are patient. We exhibit more patience with circumstances than do those who believe in a one life, and we are more forgiving of ourselves when we fall short. Thus it is that Hinduism offers a great joy to its followers--a blessing of fearlessness in the face of death, an assurance of the continuation of consciousness after physical death, another assurance that each soul creates its own karma and that such karma is just and right, even when it seems that some people are less fortunate than others and that fate has unfairly given all the advantages to a few. All these things are bestowed on Hindus simply because they understand the doctrine of reincarnation.

Hinduism is a hopeful and comforting religion. Hope for a future life makes this life worthwhile, joyous, contented and happy, because the Hindu can live and deal with current problems, knowing that they are transitory problems, that they will not last forever; nor will they affect us forever. They are problems; we cannot deny that. But they are problems to be worked out with a positive attitude and a high energy and a helping hand from our Gods.

[Lion Spirit Walker]

A Simple Truth.

We are of the Universe,
as the Universe is of us.

[Lion Spirit Walker]

A simple truth...

A sincere smile can warm a strangers heart.

[Logio]

Although I don't consider myself religious in the sense of organized religion, I do respect Nature and the Wiccan religion. I have done some Wiccan meditations, and have felt in harmony with Nature; maybe it is the most important aspect of that belief system.

Nathan

[BlueStar]

Echoing what Michael has already said...

We are the universe becoming aware of itself.

[Lion Spirit Walker]

As we are all Universal Beings, each of us moves to the rythems of the Universe. Irregardless of our conscious realization of this 'simple truth'.

[Kiran]

As we are all Universal Beings, each of us moves to the rythems of the Universe. Irregardless of our conscious realization of this 'simple truth'.

We move with the music of the Universe...its strings carry us along, its trumpets herald our arrival and its drums are our heartbeat!

[Lion Spirit Walker]

Through True Compassion toward ourselves and our fellow beings of all species, we more completely experience our true interconnectedness.

[BlueStar]

In each moment we have the choice to fight with life or flow with life. One brings suffering, the other brings peace. So choose wisely (and never forget, it's ALWAYS a choice!).

[Kiran]

Become love... and love will always find you.

[Lion Spirit Walker]

Forgive those who would treat you with disrepect,
But do not allow their behavior to become your own
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[Lion Spirit Walker]

Remember the lessons of the past
Be mindful of the future
But always be in the present
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[Lion Spirit Walker]

We move much further along the 'path of Life' together
When there is True Love and Compassion.

[Lion Spirit Walker]

Come what may
Always remember
Life in Truth
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[Lion Spirit Walker]

Love & Laughter
The best medicine of all
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[BlueStar]

"Lose the whole story. Lose it all. Lose what is great and what is horrible. This loss reveals true freedom." Gangaji.

Wow.