The Law Of Pure Potentiality - Our very essential nature is one of pure potentiality. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. One can dive deep into this field of pure potentiality by bringing the mind into stillness. Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity. Stillness doesn't mean on-movement. It is the other way the co-existence of opposites - stillness and dynamism at the same time. Nature displays it in every form - the existence of the Potential energy and the Dynamic energy existing side by side.
Watch a baby - there is life - movement but there is also a peace and harmony - stillness around it. Look at the ferocious Niagara Falls - there is this roaring dynamic energy of the falls at the same time there is a peace and tranquility surrounding it. In life too even during the busiest moments one call still carry the stillness with in and the one who is in that state is fully in this field of Pure Potentiality -
Thanks Malar for giving the wonderful oppurtunity to know the importace of self referral or internalize.
ReplyDeleteThe three things that are mentioned in this book (i.e)silence, meditation and non judgement are very nice to hear but very hard to put into practice. From Today on I am going to watch my thoughts and quiet down any judgements that raises from inside. I am also trying what Preethi said yesterday about imagining whatever we are doing as our higher self doing it instead of us.
If anybody has any suggestions or tips however small, on practicing these 3 things, please put them here, I am sure everybody will get benefit from them.
saroja
One of my friend has a doubt that if we are in a state of total surrender to the divine, we accept everything whaterver comes to us. So how can we relate non judgement to that state of total surrender. Any comments?? suggestions??
ReplyDeleteI read a story called the "Divine Within" recently. Surprisingly it was in a children's story book. It was about a saint named kashika.How he got his enlightment from a mere housewife and a butcher. As per the story the housewife will be able to read his thought and this will surprise the Kashika. He asks her, how she did it and then she will direct him to go and meet a butcher in the city. He will be shocked to see the butcher, for being an ascetic he has always stayed away from meat his entire life but the butcher with his kind eyes will reckon him and say " So you have Come". This will make him more perplexed, how did the butcher know he is going to come
ReplyDeleteThen the butcher tells him " It is easy to feel we know what is good and what is bad, but in the end nothing is good or bad, how we approach put work is the most important aspect."
ReplyDeleteThen Kashika asks "What about spiritual practice?, Surely, we are put on this earth to evolve, and this should take the greatest importance."
The butcher sighed before he answered. " It is easy to confuse our spiritual practice with our spiritual evolution, and for this reason, many people leave behind their responsibilities and forget their loved ones to develop what they think is most important. But the truth is we don't need to become ascetics to develop spiritually. What we need to leave behind is not our material lives, but our egos. Doing our day to day work in prayerful attitude with humility and the remembrance of god, will aid our evolution as much as anything else on Earth."
Kashika asks " Do you mean that if I work sincerely, faithfully, and without attachment, my work itself can become worship even as powerful as the spiritual practice I have been doing all these years?"
ReplyDeleteThe butcher's face lit up. "Exactly my friend, you have found the key which you were searching for when you came to find me, When we work in service to the divine, all work can become worship," he said.
Kashika and the butcher talked all night, about spirituality, duty, work and evolution. The butcher explained clearly and carefully the way to evolution through our daily lives lived with sincerity and the remembrance of god. Kashika listened in awe and slowly began to appreciate a new way of looking at the world in which it was not what he did but how he did it which he learnt to focus on, and after that day he tried to ensure that all his actions of whatever kind were done in the deep remembrance of the divine within.
That is a great question Saroja – As Preety explained in that story (Thanks Pretty for taking the time to type in the whole story very beautiful.) – even the enlightened one had a judgment over the House wife and the Butcher.
ReplyDeleteIt is said in the Buddism – A worm and a Buudha are the same – When you see a Worm you know it is on its way to become a Buddha, when you see a Buddha you know he evolved from a worm.
We are all always transcending between different levels of awareness all the time. If one was at the height of ONENESS then to that being everything is all the same.
I usually closely watch my inner speech – what do I say to myself – when I judge someone. – I have heard myself say “Man how stupid this person is I can’t deal with them”. Or “O boy this person is good in all aspects”.
Again there are 2 aspects – one observation and then the judgment. Observation doesn’t bring in any conflicts – like a Dr. Diagnosis the patient – you say this person get angry – very sort tempered PERIOD. Now when we start reacting to that person as if they are short tempered, then the problem starts – now we close the doors for that person to change – even when they change we don’t want to change our opinion because of our ego – we say my judgment has been always correct.
There is a difference between intellectually KNOWING you have to be non-judgmental and BEING non-judgmental. To me my heart is the reference. If I don’t have ANY conflict with anyone around me then I know in my heart I have accepted them as they are. If NOT :-) I know I have my own opinion about them.
Malar
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about non judgement..... what is it anyway? Is it analysing a person's behaviour? his or her character? Well for example if something happens and I react in a different way and another person reacts in a way familiar to them, does it mean one of us is right or wrong? Is it not the situation that decided it all?
The more I think about ego, pride, jealousy, judging the more I seemed to get confused with them... What are they all anyway? When I am feeling something I need to exhibit it for that is what a human being is tended to do. But then comes the other thoughts of did I do it right or wrong? But who decides these anyway?
The more and more I think of character, behaviour, feelings, sharing all these things... the more and more I need a living guide to tell me what are these and how to do them right anyway. And when I find my heart tunes with the same frequency of one living person who is capable of showing up the light, I think I found my guru!..... And after I am done with that, the voices with others dull down, there is only the voice between me and my master...then comes these silence and everything else that is worth mentioning. and HE takes care of it all!
I am not sure if I should post this but I did it anyway. Looking forward for the third meeting...
Hi Uma,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all I thank you for taking the time and sharing this very personal experience of yours with the group.
I agree with you on one level that any religious/spiritual practice does help a person to certain degree. But as individuals each one of us has a responsibility to improve our character. We are just humans – situations and people can just take us off guard. Unless one practices and builds into their character the non-judgmental quality it is very hard to respond to a situation where your emotions have already taken over.
Let me see if this will help us understand the deeper meaning of non-judgment.
When Mother Theresa was interviewed – one of her answer was – I see only the face of Jesus in all the people in the streets of Calcutta, India. She didn’t differentiate them – male/female, young/old, sick/health, poor/rich, good/bad. All she saw was face of Jesus – now serving was very easy when you don’t even know who you are serving. You now don’t look at a rich man and say you didn’t use God given wealth wisely so you don’t deserve to be served.
How we react to people and situations are all from habit – spontaneous – most of the time we are in a reactive state rather than the responsive state. It is very important that we build these virtues very consciously in our mind.
Malar