Silent in body, silent in speech, silent in mind, without
defilement, blessed with silence is the sage. He is truly
washed of evil.
Itivuttaka
Editorial
,
If you are as weary as I am of all the "peace talks" that go
nowhere, or the latest innovation of "wars for peace", then you
will find the first article of interest. It asks, what can
spiritually oriented people do about it all, as opposed to just
waiting forever for our lackluster politicians to do the
seemingly impossible.
The second article is an answer to a reader who asked me, what do
you do if you are in a job you don't like, don't have much money,
but want to break away and succeed? I have tried to give it my
best shot in this brief space, and hope it benefits many.
I just wanted to mention again the Bob Proctor monthly Freedom
Series that was reviewed in the last issue. I am on this program
and really finding it to be excellent, even though I am already
familiar with Mr. Proctor's work. I highly recommend it as an
excellent combination of wealth creation and spiritual
manifestation principles in one integrated system:
When Jesus said, "Blessed are the Peacemakers...", it is highly
unlikely that he had in mind the kind of cynical, war-mongering,
self-serving, untrustworthy imposters we have the misfortune of
seeing cast into that role today.
According to today's peacemakers, the surest way to insure peace
is to wield a bigger gun than your adversary. How strange that
this profound strategy finds little justification in any of the
world's major spiritual teachings on peace. How sad that, thanks
to this folly, the notion of establishing peace through purely
peaceful means has become as outdated as the gramophone record.
These days, we have swifter, technologically sophisticated, and
more "effective" approaches. Thanks to the last Gulf War, when
pictures of joyful liberated Iraqis were shown on TV worldwide,
those who stood for Peace (which includes the Pope and the Dalai
Lama) were made to look "wrong", and those who urged for war were
made to look "right".
Yet, real lasting peace in our world seems more elusive than
ever. The human race has more complex toys. However, it has yet
to attain a commensurate level of maturity. What would the great
peacemakers of the past - Gandhi, Jesus, Martin Luther King,
Buddha - have made of our present strategies for Peace?
There comes a time in the life of an aging automobile where it
has to be conceded that it cannot be patched up any longer, but
must be junked instead. It's that way with the world's current
political processes and the major players within it. The current
tools are hopelessly inadequate to the tasks at hand and can
never produce the elusive Utopia they are forever promising. They
work with outdated paradigms and old-fashioned self-serving
strategies.
Peace is hard enough to achieve when there are long-standing
historical issues giving rise to conflict in the first place. How
much more impossible then, when the key players have little
qualification, and no credibility, to be discussing peace in the
first place? This is very often the case.
Let's take the Israel/Palestine conflict as an example. Who are
the key players negotiating the peace? On one hand, you have a
man who directly caused the deaths of thousands of innocent
civilians, and narrowly escaped being tried for war crimes as a
result. On the other, you have an "approved" puppet
representative; approved more by the USA than by his own people.
Meanwhile the various armed groups, whose cooperation is
ultimately indispensable to any lasting peace, are not even
allowed to come to the table. In the role of international
arbiter, you have a man had never left the USA prior to taking
office as its President, and who could name hardly any of the
main political leaders on the world stage at the time.
How on earth are these people being trusted with creating Peace?!
A famous person once said that "people get the government they
deserve". It is precisely because we elect people like the above,
for our own self-serving domestic interests, and then let them
loose on the world stage, that international stalemates are so
common, and the progress of peace is stymied. Ultimately, each of
us is responsible for the lack of peace in the world, because we
insist on participating in this failed process. We keep hoping on
a miracle: namely, that these self-serving politicians will
actually deliver on their promises once in a while.
The flaw in modern peace attempts are that they are materialistic
in nature and outwardly focused in spirit. We have the wrong
people as our peace makers, focusing on the wrong things. The
strife in the world seems to be about territory, borders, race,
and rights. However, the real causes of dissent lie in the mind:
in the ideas and notions that people have developed and held over
generations of time. Whilst we all like to say we are the same
under the skin, the fact is that people always focus on their
historical differences when the chips are down.
It's time for spiritually oriented people to seriously consider
dropping support for the current world system as it exists today,
How can we support peace processes that are invariably carried
out at the point of a gun? Such techniques can never bring
lasting Peace.
Instead, spiritually oriented people need to unite and focus on
creating a mass change in world consciousness. This can
eventually create the momentum for peace throughout the world. In
the same way that tens of millions united across the world and
marched for peace, so we must all march for peace in the
spiritual realms.
Rather than support, directly or indirectly, our governments'
covert plans and strategies, we must disengage our minds and
wills from all of that, and instead direct them increasingly
towards thinking, pondering, meditating upon, and creating a
consensus for peace in the minds of all peoples worldwide. We can
work at the spiritual level to make this an overriding ambition
for the human race. Just as invasion, wealth and power have been
the primary motivations of peoples and nations right up to the
present, so too can peace be driven deep into the human race's
spiritual psyche, until it begins to express forcibly in the
material world in terms of tangible results.
Lasting change on the physical plane, and in the minds of people,
can only come about once there has been a change on the spiritual
non-material realms first. It is from the non-material that the
material emerges and has its being. The present destructive
thought patterns, political notions, and ideas of racial and
religious disunity, have emerged and hardened over time into the
fixed habits and patterns of thought of the human race.
The human race desperately need to develop totally new habit
patterns. The old ones are not serving us. This goes beyond
Democracy, Communism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism or any of the
fixed notions that have created a tremendous weight of historical
and psychic baggage that none of us knows how to deal with
anymore.
Nobody cuts out the hearts of living people in order to ensure
that the Sun rises tomorrow. And cannibalism is definitely on the
decline. Yet, both of these practices were once common, and even
the over-riding belief system of the day in certain nations. It
can be the same with the outdated political/religious/racial
belief systems that currently serve us so very badly. They CAN be
replaced by something better.
However, what is essential for this to happen is that a powerful,
focused, laser-like consensus develops at the non-material level.
Spiritually inclined people need to be working at the levels of
Cause, rather than leaving politicians to work at the
materialistic levels of Effect.
People could create focus groups that meditate and visualize
creating a future world filled with harmony, care for the
environment, and spiritual unity. Peace is too important to be
left to self-serving political processes. You need to take DIRECT
ACTION in the spiritual realms.
Will this process yield fruit in your lifetime? Maybe not.
Remember that humanity's problems took thousands of years to
evolve to this stage. So it will take time to correct the
spiritual mistakes of generations that are imbedded on the
non-material planes. However, that should not deter you. It is a
good thing to have goals that exceed your own life, and even your
own small lifetime.
However, it may not take as long as you might think. Jesus began
with just twelve disciples and created a spiritual tradition
that, despite centuries of persecution, took over the known
world. Mohammed did the same. And they didn't even have the
internet! The power of "two or three gathering in my name" should
never be overlooked. Jesus talked about his followers being salt
and a light to the nations. This really is possible: a few
people, even just one, can accomplish a tremendous amount. It
does not take that many people, focusing upon a clear purpose
with laser-beam clarity, to achieve it in the spiritual realms,
and consequently in the physical realms too.
Maybe just one person reading this will want to form such a
group. Maybe that one group will eventually cause others to come
into formation. Little by little, such groups and individuals
will chip away at the status quo of humanity's belief structures
on the non-physical planes. Piece by piece, the old structure
will be worn away until, one day, it just collapses completely
and forever.
Let's begin that work today. Will you do it ?...
Copyright Asoka Selvarajah 2003. All Rights Reserved.
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Caught in a fix? Doing a job you don't enjoy? Earning little
money? Burdened down with responsibilities and problems you
cannot cope with?...
Does this describe you?
It may. And even if it doesn't, you probably remember a time when
some, or all of it, did apply. So, the question is, when you are
chained to a situation like this, what can you do to liberate
yourself?
Here are some suggestions:
(1) Develop a clear vision of what you want in your life. You
need a clear vision for what you want out of your life. Napoleon
Hill called it a "major definite purpose". Without it, your life
will be full of activity, but it will go precisely nowhere. You
cannot arrive anywhere specific unless you decided to go there in
the first place.
Hence, if your life has turned into a mess, it is primarily
because you had no specific vision to guide you from the very
beginning. That's not surprising. Hardly anyone has. We all
follow each other, without much original thought, and end up in
much the same fixes.
So, the first step is to get a clear vision. You need to spend a
lot of time by yourself in self-examination. Make notes on every
area of your life - physical, mental, spiritual, emotional,
financial, professional, relationships, and so on - and develop
a clear vision for your ideal future in each one.
In "The Freedom Series", Bob Proctor recommends the use of a goal
card. You write your major definite purpose on it, and carry it
around with you all the time, reading it as often as you can. In
that way, you imprint this desire into your subconscious, which
begins to go to work to attract into your life that which you
continually desire and dwell upon.
Know that everything begins with the mind - for good or ill.
Train your mind, and you can have anything you want in life.
(2) Get Knowledge. In order to be successful, you need a mentor:
someone who already is what you aspire to become. You must either
find such people, or at the very least study the written, audio
and visual products that they have produced. Thanks to modern
technology, you can go a long way in your quest by constant and
never-ending study of the techniques of success. There are plenty
of excellent products available to help you.
If you think you can get this information fr*ee, forget it. You
get what you pay for in life. Freebie seekers remain poor
precisely because they are reinforcing their subconscious mind
with beliefs of poverty, through always seeking out fr*ee stuff.
Ask yourself if ANY successful person you have ever heard of is a
fre*ebie seeker? Do what successful people do, not what failures
do.
Successful people know that the best investment they can ever
make is in their own education. Successful people spend large
amounts of money (often tens of thousands of dollars) attending
seminars, buying books and courses, purchasing audio tape
programs, and the like. Failures do not.
You might argue that these people can afford to spend that kind
of money, because they are already prosperous. Ironically, they
are the people who LEAST need to, since they are already
successful. It's the people who MOST need this information who
run shy from investing in it, and always seek the fre*ebie route.
However, that's not for you. Resolve that in future, you will
build your personal library of success material and invest money
and time into yourself. If you believe you lack the money, find
inessentials you can dispense with, and divert the funds from
there to what is most important.
(3) Strategy. You need a clear plan to get where you want to go
in life. As you work with the teachings of your mentor (whether
live or through motivational products), gradually develop your
plan for each life area. Be ready to be flexible and change parts
of it, or even the entire plan, if it does not work for you.
Develop the vision, continually get the knowledge, create and
develop your plans (and then monitor and alter them
appropriately). Most people have no vision for their lives, have
never sought knowledge that would help them, and have no plans
for their lives apart from their vacation. Is it any wonder that
they fail?
(4) Be Grateful. Gratitude opens the gates of heaven to bless
you, and also opens up your own mind to receive it. It is one of
the key principles for creating wealth and abundance. No matter
how dire your circumstances, you can always find plenty to be
grateful for; even if it is the Sun, blue skies and bird song.
Your mind attracts more of what you focus upon. Focus upon your
lack and you will get more of it. Focus on what you have and hope
for, and even more good things must come your way.
Gratitude opens you up to the Source, from which all good things
come.
(5) Practice Your Future. You must live in your future NOW,
without worrying too much about how you will achieve it. Even if
your future seems impossible to you, begin to take regular times
every day when you will visualize it as clearly as possible. Use
all five senses and increasingly live in the world you desire to
create. The subconscious cannot tell the difference between
imagination and reality. Hence, whatever you imagine, the
subconscious will go ahead and create for you. It does this by
harnessing the infinite resources of the universe.
Actually, you are already doing this, although you may not be
controlling the process. As stated several times, what you focus
upon grows and you attract more of it to yourself. Hence, if your
mind focuses on what is wrong with your life, your situation, or
other people, that is what you will get more of. If you instead
consciously focus upon what you want, and maintain a clear bright
image of it, that is what you must get. It is a law of nature.
(6) Self-Esteem. A key reason why people fail to achieve even
their OWN criteria for success is lack of self-esteem and low
self-confidence. As well reported, much of this arises from
childhood. The bad news is that if you are like most people, all
that negative baggage remains with you. The good news is that you
can get rid of it.
Low self-esteem is like driving with the hand brake on. You will
not get far, no matter how hard you rev the engine. This is where
self-sabotage comes from. Nobody can rise to dizzying heights of
success if their success thermostat is set to a low level. It
will always act to bring you back into its idea of balance, i.e.
the life you are striving so hard to break fr*ee from! You have to
drastically increase the level on the internal success thermostat
if you expect to experience any enduring success. You need to
get ALL parts of your inner psyche working in the same direction:
working coherently to drive you to your desired outcome in life.
This is where getting the knowledge and strategies suggested in
section (2) above is so vital. There are many excellent ways to
improve your self-esteem. This is definitely a doable task,
although not an easy one. Hence, you need to research this
subject thoroughly and get to work to create high self-esteem in
your life.
(7) Persistence. There is probably no more critical determiner of
ultimate success than this. Most people fail and give up, which
is why they cannot even achieve their own criterion of success.
Often, we give up on the very brink of success, like the gold
miner who drilled for months, and then gave up and sold the mine
when he was just two feet away from the vein of gold (true
story!).
Achieving your desired vision will not be easy. Then again,
living a life of frustration, disappointment and continual
under-achievement is not any easier. So why not opt for the
former hard work instead of the latter?
Be persistent. Nothing can replace it. The less talented will
overcome the more talented, and the tortoise will beat the hare.
Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were just like everyone else, apart
from this one quality. You will need to be persistent, because
achieving anything worthwhile takes time and effort. You may have
to even face ridicule. Persistence will get you through.
In this brief article, you have been given seven keys to
achieving great success in your life. Review this article many
times. Consider how to put its principles into your life. Do your
research and build your knowledge. Invest in yourself. Dream your
future and then live in your dreams until they become reality.
Rid yourself of low self-esteem, and be persistent.
In ending, I do not wish you luck, because luck has nothing to do
with it. Remember, there are no excuses. It's all up to you
.
May
you prosper in every way.
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